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Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters
Major evolutionary transitions (METs) across Earth’s biological history describe fusions of lower-level entities into higher-level individuals...
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The Evolutionary Transition of the RNA World to Obcells to Cellular-Based Life
The obcell hypothesis is a proposed route for the RNA world to develop into a primitive cellular one. It posits that this transition began with the...
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Extrapair mating opportunity explains the evolutionary transition between the presence and absence of tail ornamentation in swallows
Evolutionary drivers of the gain and loss of ornamentation are often unclear even for classic ornamentation such as swallows’ tails, because...
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The impact of the land-to-sea transition on evolutionary integration and modularity of the pinniped backbone
In this study, we investigate how the terrestrial-aquatic transition influenced patterns of axial integration and modularity in response to the...
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Comparative transcriptomics identifies candidate genes involved in the evolutionary transition from dehiscent to indehiscent fruits in Lepidium (Brassicaceae)
BackgroundFruits are the seed-bearing structures of flowering plants and are highly diverse in terms of morphology, texture and maturation. Dehiscent...
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On the Problem of the Evolutionary Origin of Schooling Behavior of Fish
AbstractSchooling as an ecological phenomenon first arose in the early Teleostei about 200–220 million years ago; there are currently no rigorous...
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The dynamics of evolutionary branching in an ecological model
Eco-evolutionary modelling involves the coupling of ecological equations to evolutionary ones. The interaction between ecological dynamics and...
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Chemosystematics micromolecular evolutionary trends relevant to the Urticaceae family
The Urticaceae family (Rosales) comprises six tribes containing 61 genera, with about 2000 species distributed throughout tropical and subtropical...
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Incommensurability in Evolutionary Biology: The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Controversy
Evolutionary biologists today debate whether it is convenient to revise the standard theory of evolution, or if an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis is...
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Evolutionary mechanisms and practical significance of reproductive success and clonal diversity in unisexual vertebrate polyploids
Unisexual reproduction is generally relevant to polyploidy, and unisexual vertebrates are often considered an evolutionary “dead end” due to the...
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The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps
Most emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases stem from viruses that naturally circulate in non-human vertebrates. When these viruses cross over...
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Evolutionary determinants of curability in cancer
The emergence of drug-resistant cells, most of which have a mutated TP53 gene, prevents curative treatment in most advanced and common metastatic...
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Comparative and phylogenetic analyses of Loranthaceae plastomes provide insights into the evolutionary trajectories of plastome degradation in hemiparasitic plants
BackgroundThe lifestyle transition from autotrophy to heterotrophy often leads to extensive degradation of plastomes in parasitic plants, while the...
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Evolutionary history of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and genomic signatures of obligate symbiosis
BackgroundThe colonization of land and the diversification of terrestrial plants is intimately linked to the evolutionary history of their symbiotic...
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Comparative genomics of Ascetosporea gives new insight into the evolutionary basis for animal parasitism in Rhizaria
BackgroundAscetosporea (Endomyxa, Rhizaria) is a group of unicellular parasites infecting aquatic invertebrates. They are increasingly being...
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Evolutionary radiation strategy revealed in the Scarabaeidae with evidence of continuous spatiotemporal morphology and phylogenesis
Evolutionary biology faces the important challenge of determining how to interpret the relationship between selection pressures and evolutionary...
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The Evolving Evolutionary Synthesis
I review the controversy advanced by advocates of an “extended evolutionary synthesis” (EES) in the light of other controversies in evolutionary...
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Evolutionary Structure Conservation and Covariance Scores
Effective homology search for non-coding RNAs is frequently not possible via sequence similarity alone. Current methods leverage evolutionary...
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On the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
This chapter outlines a ‘mathematically elegant’ expansion of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis that embeds modalities of direct heritage—from...
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Evolutionary genetics of pulmonary anatomical adaptations in deep-diving cetaceans
BackgroundCetaceans, having experienced prolonged adaptation to aquatic environments, have undergone evolutionary changes in their respiratory...
