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Life-history theory in psychology and evolutionary biology: one research programme or two?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2020
The term ‘life-history theory’ (LHT) is increasingly often invoked in psychology, as a framework for integrating understanding of psychological traits into a broader evolutionary context.
D. Nettle, W. Frankenhuis
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Comparative analysis of morabine grasshopper genomes reveals highly abundant transposable elements and rapidly proliferating satellite DNA repeats

BMC Biology, 2020
Background Repetitive DNA sequences, including transposable elements (TEs) and tandemly repeated satellite DNA (satDNAs), collectively called the “repeatome”, are found in high proportion in organisms across the Tree of Life.
Octavio M. Palacios-Gimenez, Julia Koelman, Marc Palmada-Flores, Tessa M. Bradford, Karl K. Jones, Steven J. B. Cooper, Takeshi Kawakami, Alexander Suh   +7 more
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Neofunctionalization of ciliary BBS proteins to nuclear roles is likely a frequent innovation across eukaryotes

iScience, 2023
Summary: The eukaryotic BBSome is a transport complex within cilia and assembled by chaperonin-like BBS proteins. Recent work indicates nuclear functions for BBS proteins in mammals, but it is unclear how common these are in extant proteins or when they ...
Alexander Ewerling, Vanessa Maissl, Bill Wickstead, Helen Louise May-Simera   +3 more
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Teaching evolutionary biology

Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2004
Evolutionary Biology integrates several disciplines of Biology in a complex and interactive manner, where a deep understanding of the subject demands knowledge in diverse areas.
Rosana Tidon, Richard C. Lewontin
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Common and unique strategies of myoglobin evolution for deep-sea adaptation of diving mammals

iScience, 2021
Summary: Myoglobin (Mb) is highly concentrated in the myocytes of diving mammals such as whales and seals, in comparison with land animals, and its molecular evolution has played a crucial role in their deep-sea adaptation.
Yasuhiro Isogai, Hiroshi Imamura, Setsu Nakae, Tomonari Sumi, Ken-ichi Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Shirai   +5 more
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The persistent homology of mitochondrial ATP synthases

iScience, 2023
Summary: Relatively little is known about ATP synthase structure in protists, and the investigated ones exhibit divergent structures distinct from yeast or animals.
Savar D. Sinha, Jeremy G. Wideman
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Evaluating the maintenance of disease-associated variation at the blood group-related gene B4galnt2 in house mice

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017
Background B4galnt2 is a blood group-related glycosyltransferase that displays cis-regulatory variation for its tissue-specific expression patterns in house mice. The wild type allele, found e.g.
Marie Vallier, Maria Abou Chakra, Laura Hindersin, Miriam Linnenbrink, Arne Traulsen, John F. Baines   +5 more
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Opposing effects of plant traits on diversification

iScience, 2023
Summary: Species diversity can vary dramatically across lineages due to differences in speciation and extinction rates. Here, we explore the effects of several plant traits on diversification, finding that most traits have opposing effects on ...
Bruce Anderson, John Pannell, Sylvain Billiard, Concetta Burgarella, Hugo de Boer, Mathilde Dufay, Andrew J. Helmstetter, Marcos Méndez, Sarah P. Otto, Denis Roze, Hervé Sauquet, Daniel Schoen, Jürg Schönenberger, Mario Vallejo-Marin, Rosana Zenil-Ferguson, Jos Käfer, Sylvain Glémin   +16 more
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Evolution of Generalists by Phenotypic Plasticity

iScience, 2020
Summary: Adapting organisms face a tension between specializing their phenotypes for certain ecological tasks and developing generalist strategies that permit persistence in multiple environmental conditions.
David T. Fraebel, Karna Gowda, Madhav Mani, Seppe Kuehn   +3 more
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Opportunities and challenges for Registered Reports in ecology and evolution

Nature Communications, 2022
Nature Communications is now welcoming Registered Report submissions from all fields of research (read our editorial here), and we want to encourage submissions from the ecology and evolutionary biology fields.
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