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New experimental evidence suggests that cichlids in Lake Tanganyika exhibit diverse activity patterns, and these differences are associated with variation in unexpected genetic loci.
A longitudinal observational study in a wild meerkat population investigates the pattern of pathogen-mediated selection and provides evidence of an arms race between immune genes and pathogens.
A decade after a marine epidemic killed off sea stars and triggered ecosystem-wide effects along the Pacific Coast of North America, researchers have identified the bacterial pathogen that is responsible for sea star wasting disease.
Convolutional neural networks and genetic association analysis decode the evolution of colour pattern diversity and its underlying complex genetic architecture in the Trinidadian guppy.
A theoretical approach quantifies the drivers of community variability in simulated and natural plant communities, which sheds light on the mechanisms that underlie biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationships.
Analysis of land–atmosphere water and CO2 fluxes suggests that reduced water use by vegetation, rather than increased carbon uptake, is the driving factor behind the well-documented increase in vegetation water-use efficiency in response to rising atmospheric CO2.
Genomic and phenotypic analysis of a global invasive plant pinpoints large-effect haplotype blocks involved in parallel local adaptation and invasion success across continents, underscoring a contribution of putative structural variants to rapid evolution.
Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes associated with 4,000-year-old human skeletons in Chile establish an American origin for this causal agent of leprosy (also known as Hansen’s disease), and point to different evolutionary trajectories and transmission pathways for M.lepromatosis and its sister pathogen Mycobacterium leprae.
Single-cell analysis of placental transcriptomes across species reveals the evolutionary divergence and crosstalk of maternal and fetal cell types during early mammalian evolution.
Predictions of species extinctions among birds show that even complete threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent species extinctions and functional biodiversity loss
A global synthesis that combines meta-analysis and controlled experiments reveals that warming alters bacterial life histories, which fuels the spread of antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factor genes in what poses a novel threat to soil health.
Twenty years of occurrence data for North American birds suggest that range shifts in some, but not all, bird species have partly mitigated the effects of climate change.
An approach that integrates species distribution modelling with an economic cost model to predict the costs of invasive species provides an order-of-magnitude increase in the number of cost estimates and greatly increases total estimated costs.
An analysis of a high-resolution time series delivers a pan-tropical map of the age of moist forests regrowing following deforestation and highlights the linkage between regenerating forest persistence and landscape characteristics.
Experimental evolution of seed beetles under hot and cold temperatures indicates limited repeatability of the genomic change underlying heat adaptation across populations, which has implications for predictions of adaptation to a warming climate.
A new study shows that the life history traits of trees are more related to maximum lifespan than to mean life expectancy, and illustrates the evolutionary and ecological importance of very old trees to forests.
A phylogenetically controlled comparative analysis of behavioural traits and neurotranscriptomic data across five avian families finds that independent evolution of obligate cavity nesting is associated with convergent behavioural phenotypes and gene expression.
A global analysis reveals that coral restoration sites are often located in areas with high human impacts and overlook current and future levels of thermal stress, which places most restoration projects at high risk of failure.
An experimental study shows that interspecific hybridization transferred components of genetic incompatibility across species, which facilitated the evolution of reproductive isolation between two swordtail fish species.
A global analysis of altered species compositions and climate change reveals the extent to which ecosystems, including in protected areas and biodiversity hotspots, are exposed to novel conditions due to anthropogenic forces.
