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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Francesco Cicconardi, Edoardo Milanetti, Erika C. Pinheiro de Castro, Anyi Mazo-Vargas, Steven M. Van Belleghem, Angelo Alberto Ruggieri, Pasi Rastas, Joseph Hanly, Elizabeth Evans, Chris D. Jiggins, W. Owen McMillan, Riccardo Papa, Daniele Di Marino, Arnaud Martin, Stephen H. Montgomery
Summary: This study provides important insights into the evolution and genome evolution of Heliconius butterflies through the analysis of a large number of genomic samples. It includes the construction of a reliable phylogeny, description of patterns of gene introgression, exploration of the evolution of genome architecture, and the genomic basis of key innovations.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yuying Lin, Judith E. Mank
Summary: A genome sequence study of the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea reveals a potential sex chromosome, providing a unique opportunity to investigate the evolution of sex determination.
Editorial Material
Chemistry, Physical
Robert S. Weber
Summary: The study reveals that a Rayleigh distribution of particles exposing (1 1 1) surface populations is consistent with the particle size dependence of the turnover rates of electrochemical reduction of dioxygen catalyzed by a platinum cathode.
JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Dipti Mayee Dash, W. Jabez Osborne
Summary: Since the concept of bioremediation was introduced, microorganisms, microbial enzymes, and plants have been used as principal elements for Organophosphate pesticide (OPP) bioremediation. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and constructed wetlands (CWs) have brought new prospects to OPP biodegradation strategies. Application of synthetic biology, system biology, and bioinformatics tools have provided significant knowledge regarding the genetic, enzymatic, and biochemical aspects of OPP biodegradation.
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Economics
Erica Chuang, Pascaline Dupas, Elise Huillery, Juliette Seban
Summary: Social scientists are increasingly relying on indirect response survey methods to analyze socially sanctioned behaviors or attitudes, and our proposed simple internal consistency tests can help researchers assess the reliability of the data.
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Giorgia Bolognesi, Maria Giulia Bacalini, Chiara Pirazzini, Paolo Garagnani, Cristina Giuliani
Summary: This review examines the impact of different environmental toxicants on human evolution. Research has shown that exposure to toxins leads to adaptive genetic changes, with epigenetic remodeling and DNA methylation variation being proposed as molecular mechanisms for medium-term adaptation. The high impact of such exposure on human biology, including genetic and epigenetic diversity, mutation rate, biological fitness, and brain evolution and physiology, is discussed based on scientific literature from clinical and medical studies.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mahul Chakraborty, Angelica Guadalupe Lara, Andrew Dang, Kyle J. McCulloch, Dylan Rainbow, David Carter, Luna Thanh Ngo, Edwin Solares, Iskander Said, Russell B. Corbett-Detig, Lawrence E. Gilbert, J. J. Emerson, Adriana D. Briscoe
Summary: This study discovered that gene traffic to the W chromosome is sufficient to achieve female-specific expression of UVRh1 in butterflies. This finding provides a new model for understanding the mechanism of sex bias.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Severi Luoto, Marco Antonio Correa Varella
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to global turmoil, with differences in policies implemented by political leaders varying based on sex. Female leaders emphasize minimizing human suffering, while male leaders focus on short-term economic consequences and risk-taking. These sex differences are rooted in evolutionary processes and the sexual differentiation of the mammalian brain.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Ecology
Erik van Bergen, Vicencio Oostra
Summary: Zhen et al. investigated changes in plasticity in populations of Bicyclus butterflies from Cameroon. Their findings showed that local adaptation in these African butterflies involved changes in the degree of plasticity, with stronger responses to temperature in habitats with stronger seasonal fluctuations. Despite high levels of gene flow, differentiation in reaction norms indicated a small number of loci contributing to evolved differences in plasticity.
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Ecology
Akito Y. Kawahara, Caroline Storer, Ana Paula S. Carvalho, David M. Plotkin, Fabien L. Condamine, Mariana P. Braga, Emily A. Ellis, Ryan A. St Laurent, Xuankun Li, Vijay Barve, Liming Cai, Chandra Earl, Paul B. Frandsen, Hannah L. Owens, Wendy A. Valencia-Montoya, Kwaku Aduse-Poku, Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint, Kelly M. Dexter, Tenzing Doleck, Amanda Markee, Rebeccah Messcher, Y-Lan Nguyen, Jade Aster T. Badon, Hugo A. Benitez, Michael F. Braby, Perry A. C. Buenavente, Wei-Ping Chan, Steve C. Collins, Richard A. Rabideau Childers, Even Dankowicz, Rod Eastwood, Zdenek F. Fric, Riley J. Gott, Jason P. W. Hall, Winnie Hallwachs, Nate B. Hardy, Rachel L. Hawkins Sipe, Alan Heath, Jomar D. Hinolan, Nicholas T. Homziak, Yu-Feng Hsu, Yutaka Inayoshi, Micael G. A. Itliong, Daniel H. Janzen, Ian J. Kitching, Krushnamegh Kunte, Gerardo Lamas, Michael J. Landis, Elise A. Larsen, Torben B. Larsen, Jing V. Leong, Vladimir Lukhtanov, Crystal A. Maier, Jose I. Martinez, Dino J. Martins, Kiyoshi Maruyama, Sarah C. Maunsell, Nicolas Oliveira Mega, Alexander Monastyrskii, Ana B. B. Morais, Chris J. Mueller, Mark Arcebal K. Naive, Gregory Nielsen, Pablo Sebastian Padron, Djunijanti Peggie, Helena Piccoli Romanowski, Szabolcs Safian, Motoki Saito, Stefan Schroeder, Vaughn Shirey, Doug Soltis, Pamela Soltis, Andrei Sourakov, Gerard Talavera, Roger Vila, Petr Vlasanek, Houshuai Wang, Andrew D. Warren, Keith R. Willmott, Masaya Yago, Walter Jetz, Marta A. Jarzyna, Jesse W. Breinholt, Marianne Espeland, Leslie Ries, Robert P. Guralnick, Naomi E. Pierce, David J. Lohman
Summary: Butterflies are believed to have evolved alongside plants and dispersed globally in response to geological events, according to a new comprehensive phylogenetic study. The study sequenced genes from nearly 2,300 butterfly species and reconstructed a phylogenomic tree representing 92% of all genera, resulting in the reclassification of 36 butterfly tribes. The research also revealed that butterflies first fed on Fabaceae plants and originated in the Americas.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Shuo Gao, Ye-Song Ren, Cheng-Yuan Su, Dao-Hong Zhu
Summary: This study discovered the presence of phage WO in Wolbachia-infected butterfly species for the first time and found that most of these species harbored multiple phage types. Horizontal transfer and gene recombination were important dynamics for the evolution of phage WO genome.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Forestry
Jurg Schlegel
Summary: This study conducted a comparative study on 36 Western European lowland FEs, and found that FE improvements can increase FE heterogeneity, thereby promoting an increase in butterfly species and abundance, improving the impact on surrounding biodiversity.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Hyun-Kyu Choi, Hyunook Kang, Chanwoo Lee, Hyun Gyu Kim, Ben P. Phillips, Soohyung Park, Charlotte Tumescheit, Sang Ah Kim, Hansol Lee, Soung-Hun Roh, Heedeok Hong, Martin Steinegger, Wonpil Im, Elizabeth A. Miller, Hee-Jung Choi, Tae-Young Yoon
Summary: This study reveals the folding pathway of purified human glucose transporter 3 using single-molecule magnetic tweezers. The N-terminal major facilitator superfamily fold forms first and serves as a template for the C-terminal fold. The insertion of hydrophilic transmembrane helices is facilitated by the endoplasmic reticulum membrane protein complex, and final assembly depends on specific lipids.
NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Evandro Ferrada, Giulio Superti-Furga
Summary: This study provides an integrative classification of solute carriers by combining evolutionary information with proteome-wide structure models. The results reveal approximately 180 independent evolutionary origins of solute carriers and identify 24 structurally distinct transmembrane folds. In addition, a new solute carrier member and details of noncanonical solute carriers are discovered.
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Evolutionary Biology
Steven Poe, Christopher Anderson, Joseph Barnett
Summary: The focus on named clades in comparative evolutionary analyses is criticized due to potential biases and issues with using clades as units of analysis. While some potential alternatives for clade selection are presented, they are not seen as complete solutions. The nonindependence of clades and the questionable biological insights gained from clade-based studies are highlighted as broader problems with this approach.
SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY
(2021)
