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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
William R. Conner, Emily K. Delaney, Michael J. Bronski, Paul S. Ginsberg, Timothy B. Wheeler, Kelly M. Richardson, Brooke Peckenpaugh, Kevin J. Kim, Masayoshi Watada, Ary A. Hoffmann, Michael B. Eisen, Artyom Kopp, Brandon S. Cooper, Michael Turelli
Summary: The Drosophila montium species group consists of 94 named species closely related to D. melanogaster, distributed widely across Asia, Africa, and Australasia. Genomic data from 42 species were used to estimate phylogeny, relative divergence times, and support monophyly within the group. However, age estimates for the montium crown group compared to D. melanogaster remain uncertain.
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Review
Biology
Paul Zaharias, Tandy Warnow
Summary: This article introduces some recent advances in highly accurate phylogeny estimation on large datasets, including divide-and-conquer techniques, methods for estimating species trees from multi-locus datasets and addressing heterogeneity, and methods for adding sequences into large gene trees or species trees.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Arianna Renzini, Joseph D. Romano, Carlo R. Contaldi, Neil J. Cornish
Summary: Detection of a stochastic background of gravitational waves is likely to happen in the next few years. Different mapping methods have been proposed to target anisotropic backgrounds. This study compares the intensity mapping approach with the amplitude-phase mapping approach and finds that the latter is only applicable to phase coherent backgrounds. Therefore, intensity mapping is preferred for such backgrounds.
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Biodiversity Conservation
Elena Kupriyanova, Harry A. A. ten Hove, Greg W. W. Rouse
Summary: This study presents the first phylogenetic analysis of Serpulidae and proposes a new classification based on morphological and molecular data. The results suggest that the traditional classification of Serpulinae and Filograninae is not monophyletic. The revised classification provides a better understanding of the evolutionary relationships within this species group.
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Hiroki Taniguchi, Shuto Yamamoto, Masanori Nakamura, Akira Masuda, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Shigeru Kanazawa, Hirotaka Nakamura
Summary: We propose advanced MLSE methods to increase the capacity of short-reach IM-DD transmissions for next-generation Ethernet. We introduce methods to reduce complexity of the Viterbi algorithm, improve demodulation performance, and reduce computational complexity. Experiments in the O-band with transmission rates of 200 Gbps/lane or higher are presented, as well as a 200 Gbps/lane 4-LAN-WDM 800 G 2 km transmission experiment using a 4-channel LAN-WDM TOSA designed for 400 G transmission.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Thien Le, Aaron Sy, Erin K. Molloy, Qiuyi Zhang, Satish Rao, Tandy Warnow
Summary: Incremental tree building (INC) is a fast converging phylogeny estimation method, but has poor accuracy for gene tree estimation; Constrained-INC approaches the accuracy of the best methods for species tree estimation and is faster.
IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Moza Al-Kharousi, Shah Hussain, Marwa A. Al-Muharabi, Dua'a Al-Maqbali, Zahra Al-Shabibi, Abdullah H. Al-Balushi, Mohamed N. Al-Yahya'ei, Nadiya Al Saady, Rethinasamy Velazhahan, Abdullah M. Al-Sadi
Summary: A new Micropsalliota species from southern Oman is described in this study, based on morphological features and phylogenetic analysis. The study suggests that species of the genus can be divided into two groups based on their pileus morphology and basidiospores size.
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Ariel A. Hippen, Matias M. Falco, Lukas M. Weber, Erdogan Pekcan Erkan, Kaiyang Zhang, Jennifer Anne Doherty, Anna Vaharautio, Casey S. Greene, Stephanie C. Hicks
Summary: The miQC package was developed to predict low-quality cells in a given scRNA-seq dataset by jointly modeling the proportion of reads mapping to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genes and the number of detected genes using mixture models in a probabilistic framework. The QC metric easily adapts to different types of single-cell datasets to remove low-quality cells while preserving high-quality cells for downstream analyses.
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Milan Koch, Vassily A. Spiridonov, Zdenek Duris
Summary: Swimming crabs of the genus Portunus were revised based on genetic markers and morphological comparison, leading to the discovery of polyphyletic and paraphyletic composition of several genera. The revised composition divided Monomia, Portunus, and Xiphonectes into new genera, and the subfamily Portuninae now consists of 11 genera.
ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Ehab M. Almetwally, Mohamed A. H. Sabry, Randa Alharbi, Dalia Alnagar, Sh A. M. Mubarak, E. H. Hafez
Summary: This paper introduces a new novel four-parameter Weibull distribution called the Marshall-Olkin alpha power Weibull (MOAPW) distribution, examines its statistical properties, and discusses parameter estimation methods. The numerical analysis using real data sets and Monte Carlo simulation demonstrates the superiority of the MOAPW model over other competitive distributions.
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Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Sadiah M. A. Aljeddani, M. A. Mohammed
Summary: In this study, a Power Generalized Weibull Distribution (PGWD) was introduced for estimating unknown variables in the progressing type-II-censoring method. The PGW parameters were estimated using the maximum likelihood, maximum product spacing, and Bayesian assessment approaches. The performance of the three techniques was compared using progressively type-II censored data and Monte Carlo Simulation. Bayesian estimation showed better performance in terms of mean squares of error and bias reduction for PGWD with a natural conjugate prior.
ALEXANDRIA ENGINEERING JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Yuzi Zhang, Jiandong Chen, Lin Ge, John M. Williamson, Lance A. Waller, Robert H. Lyles
Summary: Capture-recapture methods are commonly used in disease surveillance to estimate the number of cases. This study proposes a framework for sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, focusing on two data streams. The framework relies on a key parameter that is usually nonidentifiable but has epidemiological significance. It allows for appealing visualizations and leverages epidemiologist's understanding to drive estimation assumptions. The proposed approach demonstrates reliable performance in quantifying uncertainties in estimating the number of cases.
Article
Ecology
Najme Khakestani, Malihe Latifi, Esmaeil Babaeian, Wayne Knee, Samin Hosseini
Summary: This study explores the evolutionary relationships, divergence times, and amino acid variations within Macrocheles using publicly available data in GenBank. The results reveal clear relationships within Macrocheles species, and further subdivisions within M. merdarius and M. willowae.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Fernando S. Cabral, Duane F. Lima, Magdalena Vaio, Pedro Fiaschi
Summary: This study conducted a phylogenetic analysis of Oxalis subg. Thamnoxys and its sections. The results showed that Oxalis subg. Thamnoxys was monophyletic only when O. praetexta was transferred to Oxalis subg. Oxalis. This study provides new insights and updated classification criteria for the subgenus, and is important for understanding its morphological diversity and biogeographic history in South America.
BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ye Lin, Sean B. Andersson
Summary: Single Particle Tracking (SPT) is a well-known tool for studying the dynamics of biological macromolecules inside living cells. The study focuses on the problem of localization and parameter estimation and proposes an Expectation Maximization (EM) based framework for simultaneous handling. Two representative methods, namely SMC-EM and U-EM, demonstrate better performance compared to standard techniques, especially at low signal levels.
Article
Ecology
Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Carlos E. Guarnizo, Andrew J. Crawford, Adrian A. Garda, Gabriel C. Costa
Summary: The study in Isthmian Central America (ICA) using landscape genetics approach found that different populations of regional frog assemblage showed idiosyncratic responses to various drivers of genetic divergence. Despite short geographical distances, the convergence of several factors over heterogeneous landscape might maximize genetic differentiation.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Shabnam Mohammadi, Lu Yang, Arbel Harpak, Santiago Herrera-Alvarez, Maria del Pilar Rodriguez-Ordonez, Julie Peng, Karen Zhang, Jay F. Storz, Susanne Dobler, Andrew J. Crawford, Peter Andolfatto
Summary: This study reveals the evolutionary process of a tandem duplication of Na+,K+-ATPase subunit alpha 1 shared by frogs in the genus Leptodaclylus, with one paralog evolving resistance to toad toxins while the other retaining susceptibility. Frequent non-allelic gene conversion homogenized most of the sequence betwee the two copies, yet strong selection on 12 amino acid substitutions distinguished the two paralogs.
Article
Zoology
Moises Escalona, Enrique La Marca, Michelle Castellanos, Antoine Fouquet, Andrew J. Crawford, Fernando J. M. Rojas-Runjaic, Ariovaldo A. Giaretta, J. Celsa Senaris, Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher
Summary: Based on molecular, acoustic, and morphological analyses, populations north of the Orinoco River were found to be distinct from those in the eastern Guiana Shield, leading to the identification of a new species named Boana platanera sp. nov. in Venezuela. The study highlights the importance of integrative taxonomic approaches for species discovery and reveals the presence of false negatives behind genetic thresholds.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Luis Alberto Rueda-Solano, Fernando Vargas-Salinas, Jose Luis Perez-Gonzalez, Arantxa Sanchez-Ferreira, Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra, Carlos A. Navas, Andrew J. Crawford
Summary: This study investigates the origin and mate-guarding strategy of prolonged amplexus behavior in the Santa Marta harlequin toad. The results suggest that body condition and clasp force are positively associated with successful mate guarding, but the overall probability of successfully displacing amplectant males is low.
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Gabrielle Genty, Carlos E. Guarnizo, Juan P. Ramirez, Lucas S. Barrientos, Andrew J. Crawford
Summary: The complex topography of the northern Andes promotes genetic divergence within the frog genus Rheobates, with local adaptation playing a significant role in this process.
JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Joseph E. A. Huddart, Andrew J. Crawford, Arturo L. Luna-Tapia, Silvia Restrepo, Federica Di Palma
Summary: The 2016 Peace Agreement has increased access to Colombia's unique ecosystems, but they remain understudied and under threat. The Colombian government's National Bioeconomic Strategy aims to conserve biodiversity and achieve sustainability and peace. The Earth Biogenome Project's partnership with Colombia, known as EBP-Colombia, will accelerate technology adoption, promote collaboration, assist with conservation strategies, and encourage innovation in sectors like agriculture and tourism.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Harris A. Lewin, Stephen Richards, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Miguel L. Allende, John M. Archibald, Miklos Balint, Katharine B. Barker, Bridget Baumgartner, Katherine Belov, Giorgio Bertorelle, Mark L. Blaxter, Jing Cai, Nicolette D. Caperello, Keith Carlson, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Shu-Miaw Chaw, Lei Chen, Anna K. Childers, Jonathan A. Coddington, Dalia A. Conde, Montserrat Corominas, Keith A. Crandall, Andrew J. Crawford, Federica DiPalma, Richard Durbin, ThankGod E. Ebenezer, Scott V. Edwards, Olivier Fedrigo, Paul Flicek, Giulio Formenti, Richard A. Gibbs, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Melissa M. Goldstein, Jennifer Marshall Graves, Henry T. Greely, Igor V. Grigoriev, Kevin J. Hackett, Neil Hall, David Haussler, Kristofer M. Helgen, Carolyn J. Hogg, Sachiko Isobe, Kjetill Sigurd Jakobsen, Axel Janke, Erich D. Jarvis, Warren E. Johnson, Steven J. M. Jones, Elinor K. Karlsson, Paul J. Kersey, Jin-Hyoung Kim, W. John Kress, Shigehiro Kuraku, Mara K. N. Lawniczak, James H. Leebens-Mack, Xueyan Li, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Xin Liu, Jose V. Lopez, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Sophie Mazard, Jonna A. K. Mazet, Camila J. Mazzoni, Eugene W. Myers, Rachel J. O'Neill, Sadye Paez, Hyun Park, Gene E. Robinson, Cristina Roquet, Oliver A. Ryder, Jamal S. M. Sabir, H. Bradley Shaffer, Timothy M. Shank, Jacob S. Sherkow, Pamela S. Soltis, Boping Tang, Leho Tedersoo, Marcela Uliano-Silva, Kun Wang, Xiaofeng Wei, Regina Wetzer, Julia L. Wilson, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Anne D. Yoder, Guojie Zhang
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mara K. N. Lawniczak, Richard Durbin, Paul Flicek, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Xiaofeng Wei, John M. Archibald, William J. Baker, Katherine Belov, Mark L. Blaxter, Tomas Marques Bonet, Anna K. Childers, Jonathan A. Coddington, Keith A. Crandall, Andrew J. Crawford, Robert P. Davey, Federica Di Palma, Qi Fang, Wilfried Haerty, Neil Hall, Katharina J. Hoff, Kerstin Howe, Erich D. Jarvis, Warren E. Johnson, Rebecca N. Johnson, Paul J. Kersey, Xin Liu, Jose Victor Lopez, Eugene W. Myers, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Adam M. Phillippy, Monica F. Poelchau, Kim D. Pruitt, Arang Rhie, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Nicholas A. Salmon, Pamela S. Soltis, David Swarbreck, Francoise Thibaud-Nissen, Sibo Wang, Jill L. Wegrzyn, Guojie Zhang, He Zhang, Harris A. Lewin, Stephen Richards
Summary: The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is a global international initiative that requires agreement and coordination on standards. To ensure rapid progress towards its goals, EBP has established five technical standards committees and made the current versions of the standards documents available on its website.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniel G. Mulcahy, Roberto Ibanez, Cesar A. Jaramillo, Andrew J. Crawford, Julie M. Ray, Steve W. Gotte, Jeremy F. Jacobs, Addison H. Wynn, Gracia P. Gonzalez-Porter, Roy W. McDiarmid, Ronald Crombie, George R. Zug, Kevin de Queiroz
Summary: Natural history collections are crucial for biology research, but they currently lack funding and staff face heavy workloads. Scientists are creating large DNA barcode libraries to document and conserve biodiversity, but mistakes are common. Therefore, it is important to raise awareness of these issues and provide advice to maintain accurate records of Earth's biodiversity.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
James S. Santangelo, Rob W. Ness, Beata Cohan, Connor R. Fitzpatrick, Simon G. Innes, Sophie Koch, Lindsay S. Miles, Samreen Munim, Pedro R. Peres-Neto, Cindy Prashad, Alex T. Tong, Windsor E. Aguirre, Philips O. Akinwole, Marina Alberti, Jackie Alvarez, Jill T. Anderson, Joseph J. Anderson, Yoshino Ando, Nigel R. Andrew, Fabio Angeoletto, Daniel N. Anstett, Julia Anstett, Felipe Aoki-Goncalves, A. Z. Andis Arietta, Mary T. K. Arroyo, Emily J. Austen, Fernanda Baena-Diaz, Cory A. Barker, Howard A. Baylis, Julia M. Beliz, Alfonso Benitez-Mora, David Bickford, Gabriela Biedebach, Gwylim S. Blackburn, Mannfred M. A. Boehm, Stephen P. Bonser, Dries Bonte, Jesse R. Bragger, Cristina Branquinho, Kristien Brans, Jorge C. Bresciano, Peta D. Brom, Anna Bucharova, Briana Burt, James F. Cahill, Katelyn D. Campbell, Elizabeth J. Carlen, Diego Carmona, Maria Clara Castellanos, Giada Centenaro, Izan Chalen, Jaime A. Chaves, Mariana Chavez-Pesqueira, Xiao-Yong Chen, Angela M. Chilton, Kristina M. Chomiak, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Ibrahim K. Cisse, Aimee T. Classen, Mattheau S. Comerford, Camila Cordoba Fradinger, Hannah Corney, Andrew J. Crawford, Kerri M. Crawford, Maxime Dahirel, Santiago David, Robert De Haan, Nicholas J. Deacon, Clare Dean, Ek Del-Val, Eleftherios K. Deligiannis, Derek Denney, Margarete A. Dettlaff, Michelle F. DiLeo, Yuan-Yuan Ding, Moises E. Dominguez-Lopez, Davide M. Dominoni, Savannah L. Draud, Karen Dyson, Jacintha Ellers, Carlos Espinosa, Liliana Essi, Mohsen Falahati-Anbaran, Jessica C. F. Falcao, Hayden T. Fargo, Mark D. E. Fellowes, Raina M. Fitzpatrick, Leah E. Flaherty, Padraic J. Flood, Maria F. Flores, Juan Fornoni, Amy G. Foster, Christopher J. Frost, Tracy L. Fuentes, Justin R. Fulkerson, Edeline Gagnon, Frauke Garbsch, Colin J. Garroway, Aleeza C. Gerstein, Mischa M. Giasson, E. Binney Girdler, Spyros Gkelis, William Godsoe, Anneke M. Golemiec, Mireille Golemiec, Cesar Gonzalez-Lagos, Amanda J. Gorton, Kiyoko M. Gotanda, Gustaf Granath, Stephan Greiner, Joanna S. Griffiths, Filipa Grilo, Pedro E. Gundel, Benjamin Hamilton, Joyce M. Hardin, Tianhua He, Stephen B. Heard, Andre F. Henriques, Melissa Hernandez-Poveda, Molly C. Hetherington-Rauth, Sarah J. Hill, Dieter F. Hochuli, Kathryn A. Hodgins, Glen R. Hood, Gareth R. Hopkins, Katherine A. Hovanes, Ava R. Howard, Sierra C. Hubbard, Carlos N. Ibarra-Cerdena, Carlos Iniguez-Armijos, Paola Jara-Arancio, Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, Manon Jeannot, Vania Jimenez-Lobato, Mae Johnson, Oscar Johnson, Philip P. Johnson, Reagan Johnson, Matthew P. Josephson, Meen Chel Jung, Michael G. Just, Aapo Kahilainen, Otto S. Kailing, Eunice Karinho-Betancourt, Regina Karousou, Lauren A. Kirn, Anna Kirschbaum, Anna-Liisa Laine, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Christian Lampei, Carlos Lara, Erica L. Larson, Adrian Lazaro-Lobo, Jennifer H. Le, Deleon S. Leandro, Christopher Lee, Yunting Lei, Carolina A. Leon, Manuel E. Lequerica Tamara, Danica C. Levesque, Wan-Jin Liao, Megan Ljubotina, Hannah Locke, Martin T. Lockett, Tiffany C. Longo, Jeremy T. Lundholm, Thomas MacGillavry, Christopher R. Mackin, Alex R. Mahmoud, Isaac A. Manju, Janine Marien, D. Nayeli Martinez, Marina Martinez-Bartolome, Emily K. Meineke, Wendy Mendoza-Arroyo, Thomas J. S. Merritt, Lila Elizabeth L. Merritt, Giuditta Migiani, Emily S. Minor, Nora Mitchell, Mitra Mohammadi Bazargani, Angela T. Moles, Julia D. Monk, Christopher M. Moore, Paula A. Morales-Morales, Brook T. Moyers, Miriam Munoz-Rojas, Jason Munshi-South, Shannon M. Murphy, Maureen M. Murua, Melisa Neila, Ourania Nikolaidis, Iva Njunji, Peter Nosko, Juan Nunez-Farfan, Takayuki Ohgushi, Kenneth M. Olsen, Oystein H. Opedal, Cristina Ornelas, Amy L. Parachnowitsch, Aaron S. Paratore, Angela M. Parody-Merino, Juraj Paule, Octavio S. Paulo, Joao Carlos Pena, Vera W. Pfeiffer, Pedro Pinho, Anthony Piot, Ilga M. Porth, Nicholas Poulos, Adriana Puentes, Jiao Qu, Estela Quintero-Vallejo, Steve M. Raciti, Joost A. M. Raeymaekers, Krista M. Raveala, Diana J. Rennison, Milton C. Ribeiro, Jonathan L. Richardson, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Benjamin J. Rivera, Adam B. Roddy, Erika Rodriguez-Munoz, Jose Raul Roman, Laura S. Rossi, Jennifer K. Rowntree, Travis J. Ryan, Santiago Salinas, Nathan J. Sanders, Luis Y. Santiago-Rosario, Amy M. Savage, J. F. Scheepens, Menno Schilthuizen, Adam C. Schneider, Tiffany Scholier, Jared L. Scott, Summer A. Shaheed, Richard P. Shefferson, Caralee A. Shepard, Jacqui A. Shykoff, Georgianna Silveira, Alexis D. Smith, Lizet Solis-Gabriel, Antonella Soro, Katie Spellman, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Indra Starke-Ottich, Jorg G. Stephan, Jessica D. Stephens, Justyna Szulc, Marta Szulkin, Ayco J. M. Tack, Italo Tamburrino, Tayler D. Tate, Emmanuel Tergemina, Panagiotis Theodorou, Ken A. Thompson, Caragh G. Threlfall, Robin M. Tinghitella, Lilibeth Toledo-Chelala, Xin Tong, Lea Uroy, Shunsuke Utsumi, Martijn L. Vandegehuchte, Acer VanWallendael, Paula M. Vidal, Susana M. Wadgymar, Ai-Ying Wang, Nian Wang, Montana L. Warbrick, Kenneth D. Whitney, Miriam Wiesmeier, J. Tristian Wiles, Jianqiang Wu, Zoe A. Xirocostas, Zhaogui Yan, Jiahe Yao, Jeremy B. Yoder, Owen Yoshida, Jingxiong Zhang, Zhigang Zhao, Carly D. Ziter, Matthew P. Zuellig, Rebecca A. Zufall, Juan E. Zurita, Sharon E. Zytynska, Marc T. J. Johnson
Summary: This study sampled and analyzed 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally, finding that urban environmental change drives parallel evolution to some extent. The research demonstrates that urbanization leads to adaptation at a global scale.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sadye Paez, Robert H. S. Kraus, Beth Shapiro, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Erich D. Jarvis
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Shabnam Mohammadi, Santiago Herrera-Alvarez, Lu Yang, Maria del Pilar Rodriguez-Ordonez, Karen Zhang, Jay F. Storz, Susanne Dobler, Andrew J. Crawford, Peter Andolfatto
Summary: A growing body of evidence suggests that intramolecular epistasis plays a major role in protein evolution and imposes constraints on the evolution of novel protein functions. This study examines the role of intramolecular epistasis in the recurrent evolution of resistance to cardiotonic steroids (CTS) and finds that it plays a significant role in determining CTS resistance in tetrapods.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Erika Rodriguez-Munoz, Camilo Montes, Fernando J. M. Rojas-Runjaic, Andrew J. Crawford
Summary: The study evaluated vicariance between lowland populations in the Colombian and Venezuelan Andes, finding that most divergences occurred during the Pliocene and Quaternary periods. Divergence times were relatively recent and likely influenced by organism-environment interactions during Pleistocene climate oscillations, or dispersal through portals across the Andes.
Article
Zoology
Alexandra Arias-Cardenas, Lucas S. Barrientos, Carolina Pardo-Diaz, Andrea Paz, Andrew J. Crawford, Camilo Salazar
Summary: This study conducted morphometric and genetic analyses of populations of Dendropsophus molitor and Dendropsophus luddeckei to test the validity of the recent taxonomic split. The results suggest that D. luddeckei is not a valid species and D. molitor should be considered a single species. This study highlights the danger of taxonomic inflation in the face of limited geographic sampling and a lack of clear diagnostic characters.
ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Biology
Hollis A. Dahn, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Jennifer Balacco, Sylke Winkler, Iliana Bista, Anthony D. Schmitt, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Giulio Formenti, Karen Oliver, Michelle Smith, Wenhua Tan, Anne Kraus, Stephen Mac, Lisa M. Komoroske, Tanya Lama, Andrew J. Crawford, Robert W. Murphy, Samara Brown, Alan F. Scott, Phillip A. Morin, Erich D. Jarvis, Olivier Fedrigo
Summary: This study compares preservation methods for tissue sampling in vertebrates and finds that storage temperature is the most important factor affecting DNA fragment length. Samples preserved in 95% ethanol or 20-25% DMSO-EDTA at 4 degrees Celsius for 6 hours or 1 week can maintain sufficient DNA integrity and quantity. Tissue type affects total DNA yield, and preservation solution also influences fragment length and DNA yield.