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Effects of urban-induced mutations on ecology, evolution and health Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Marc T. J. Johnson, Irtaqa Arif, Francesco Marchetti, Jason Munshi-South, Rob W. Ness, Marta Szulkin, Brian C. Verrelli, Carole L. Yauk, Daniel N. Anstett, Warren Booth, Aude E. Caizergues, Elizabeth J. Carlen, Anthony Dant, Josefa González, César González Lagos, Madeleine Oman, Megan Phifer-Rixey, Diana J. Rennison, Michael S. Rosenberg, Kristin M. Winchell
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A pollen selection system links self and interspecific incompatibility in the Brassicaceae Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Bo Liu, Mengya Li, Jianfang Qiu, Jing Xue, Wenhong Liu, Qingqing Cheng, Hainan Zhao, Yongbiao Xue, Mikhail E. Nasrallah, June B. Nasrallah, Pei Liu
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Diversity-dependent speciation and extinction in hominins Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Laura A. van Holstein, Robert A. Foley
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Butterflies revisit past phenotypes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Vaishali Bhaumik
The diadem (Hypolimnas misippus) is a widely distributed butterfly that is known for its female-limited mimicry of three forms of the African queen (Danaus chrysippus). All H. misippus males are non-mimetic and have black wings with prominent egg-like white spots, whereas females have orange wings and are polymorphic, mimicking one of three toxic butterfly subspecies. Writing in Molecular Biology and
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Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Ayana M. Hellevik, Philip Mardoum, Joshua Hahn, Yvonne Kölsch, Florence D. D’Orazi, Sachihiro C. Suzuki, Leanne Godinho, Owen Lawrence, Fred Rieke, Karthik Shekhar, Joshua R. Sanes, Herwig Baier, Tom Baden, Rachel O. Wong, Takeshi Yoshimatsu
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Tissue specificity follows gene duplication Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Anamaria Necsulea
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Evolution of tissue-specific expression of ancestral genes across vertebrates and insects Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Federica Mantica, Luis P. Iñiguez, Yamile Marquez, Jon Permanyer, Antonio Torres-Mendez, Josefa Cruz, Xavier Franch-Marro, Frank Tulenko, Demian Burguera, Stephanie Bertrand, Toby Doyle, Marcela Nouzova, Peter D. Currie, Fernando G. Noriega, Hector Escriva, Maria Ina Arnone, Caroline B. Albertin, Karl R. Wotton, Isabel Almudi, David Martin, Manuel Irimia
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Quantifying forest degradation requires a long-term, landscape-scale approach Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Matthew G. Betts, Zhiqiang Yang, Adam S. Hadley, Jessica Hightower, Fangyuan Hua, David Lindenmayer, Eugene Seo, Sean P. Healey
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Exciting times for evolutionary biology Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-11
Evolutionary biologists should be proud of recent progress in their broad field. We highlight some developments in fundamental questions and the applied use of evolution.
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Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10
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Root volatiles manipulate bacterial biofilms Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Waseem Raza, Gaofei Jiang
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Ascidian embryonic cells with properties of neural-crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors of vertebrates Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Tasuku Ishida, Yutaka Satou
Neural-crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors (NMPs) are multipotent cells that are important for development of vertebrate embryos. In embryos of ascidians, which are the closest invertebrate relatives of vertebrates, several cells located at the border between the neural plate and the epidermal region have neural-crest-like properties; hence, the last common ancestor of ascidians and vertebrates
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Conserving the primary forests in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon for people and nature Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Yu Ren, Cheng Li, Kating Chau, Guangpeng Fan, Guangcai Xu, Haitao Yang, Kai Cheng, Fangyuan Hua, Ruocheng Hu, Xiangying Shi, Hongcan Guan, Mengxi Chen, Zekun Yang, Zhixin Cheng, Kangshan Mao, Yanjun Su, Qinghua Guo, Zhi Lu
One exciting development has been the description of three giant trees in the YTGC region during 2022–2023. Using a combination of space-borne and high-accuracy near-surface drone and backpack lidar, we described a 76.8-m-tall Pinus bhutanica in Medog county, an 83.4-m-tall Abies ernestii var. salouenensis in Zayu county (first identified by K. Guo’s team from the Institute of Botany at Chinese Academy
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Brazilian fossils are not necessarily cultural heritage Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Caiubi Emanuel Souza Kuhn, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Fábio Augusto Gomes Vieira Reis, André Luis Spisila, Marjorie Csekö Nolasco, Abdelmajid Hach Hach, Adelir José Strieder
In their Comment published in Nature Ecology & Evolution concerning the part that scientific societies can play in the repatriation of fossils, Araújo-Júnior et al.1 did not consider the complete set of laws that govern fossils in Brazil. This gives the impression that Brazilian law predominantly considers fossils as cultural heritage. In fact, Brazilian legislation is conflicted on issues related
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Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Hermínio Ismael de Araújo-Júnior, Renato Pirani Ghilardi, Silane Aparecida Ferreira da Silva Caminha, Victor Rodrigues Ribeiro, Fernando Henrique de Souza Barbosa, Sandro Marcelo Scheffler, Ana Maria Ribeiro
Kuhn et al.1 write that in our recent Nature Ecology & Evolution publication2, we overlook Brazilian legislation that considers fossils as mineral or natural heritage in favour of legislation that considers fossils to be cultural heritage, and that fossils are more appropriately considered as mineral heritage. Given the constraints of format, we emphasize that the information in our Comment on Brazilian
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Frequent jumps from human hosts Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 David Moi, Christophe Dessimoz
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The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Cedric C. S. Tan, Lucy van Dorp, Francois Balloux
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Stegosaurus stenops Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Susannah Maidment
A surprisingly rare, yet iconic taxon is Susannah Maidment’s choice.
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The Global Biodiversity Framework’s ecosystem restoration target requires more clarity and careful legal interpretation Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Justine Bell-James, Rose Foster, Nicole Shumway, Catherine E. Lovelock, Jaramar Villarreal-Rosas, Christopher J. Brown, Dominic A. Andradi-Brown, Megan I. Saunders, Nathan J. Waltham, James A. Fitzsimons
With the passage of the one-year anniversary of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), substantial effort is still needed to progress Target 2 — the ‘restoration target’. The restoration target guides parties to “ensure that by 2030 at least 30 per cent of areas of degraded terrestrial, inland water, and marine and coastal ecosystems are under effective restoration, in order to enhance
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Multicellularity drives ecological diversity in a long-term evolution experiment Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22
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Host species drive composition of mosquito virome Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Sarah François
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Metagenomic analysis of individual mosquito viromes reveals the geographical patterns and drivers of viral diversity Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Yuan-Fei Pan, Hailong Zhao, Qin-Yu Gou, Pei-Bo Shi, Jun-Hua Tian, Yun Feng, Kun Li, Wei-Hong Yang, De Wu, Guangpeng Tang, Bing Zhang, Zirui Ren, Shiqin Peng, Geng-Yan Luo, Shi-Jia Le, Gen-Yang Xin, Jing Wang, Xin Hou, Min-Wu Peng, Jian-Bin Kong, Xin-Xin Chen, Chun-Hui Yang, Shi-Qiang Mei, Yu-Qi Liao, Jing-Xia Cheng, Juan Wang, Chaolemen, Yu-Hui Wu, Jian-Bo Wang, Tongqing An, Xinyi Huang, John-Sebastian
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Primitive purine biosynthesis connects ancient geochemistry to modern metabolism Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Joshua E. Goldford, Harrison B. Smith, Liam M. Longo, Boswell A. Wing, Shawn Erin McGlynn
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Author Correction: Global plant–symbiont organization and emergence of biogeochemical cycles resolved by evolution-based trait modelling Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Mingzhen Lu, Lars O. Hedin
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A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Bryan M. Spears, Quillon Harpham, Emma Brown, Catherine L. Barnett, Louise Barwell, Marta Roca Collell, Mark Davison, Harry Dixon, J. Alex Elliott, Angus Garbutt, Caroline Hazlewood, Barbara Hofmann, James Lanyon, Stephen Lofts, Colin MacKechnie, Sergiy Medinets, James Noble, David Ramsbottom, John W. Redhead, Alberto Riera, David J. Spurgeon, Claus Svendsen, Philip Taylor, Stephen J. Thackeray, Katharine
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Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Carolina Levis, Bernardo M. Flores, João Vitor Campos-Silva, Nivaldo Peroni, Arie Staal, Maíra C. G. Padgurschi, Wetherbee Dorshow, Bruno Moraes, Morgan Schmidt, Taku Wate Kuikuro, Huke Kuikuro, Kumessi Wauja, Kalutata Kuikuro, Afukaka Kuikuro, Carlos Fausto, Bruna Franchetto, Jennifer Watling, Helena Lima, Michael Heckenberger, Charles R. Clement
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Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Tianna Peller, Florian Altermatt
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New opportunities emerge as the Anthropocene epoch vote falls short Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Nicole Boivin, Todd Braje, Torben Rick
The Anthropocene has been rejected as a formal epoch by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Moving on and recognizing the deeper and more complex roots of human impacts on our planet will enable us to better, and more fairly, address them.
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Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 A. Cole Burton, Christopher Beirne, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Catherine Sun, Alys Granados, Maximilian L. Allen, Jesse M. Alston, Guilherme C. Alvarenga, Francisco Samuel Álvarez Calderón, Zachary Amir, Christine Anhalt-Depies, Cara Appel, Stephanny Arroyo-Arce, Guy Balme, Avi Bar-Massada, Daniele Barcelos, Evan Barr, Erika L. Barthelmess, Carolina Baruzzi, Sayantani M. Basak, Natalie Beenaerts, Jonathan
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Preservation of proteins in the geosphere Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Raman Umamaheswaran, Suryendu Dutta
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Extinction drives the climate-change-induced reshuffling of forest plant communities Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
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Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Rozenn M. Pineau, Eric Libby, David Demory, Dung T. Lac, Thomas C. Day, Pablo Bravo, Peter J. Yunker, Joshua S. Weitz, G. Ozan Bozdag, William C. Ratcliff
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Inherited challenges in the pursuit of an academic career abroad Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Farid Saleh
Scholars from the Global South face inherited challenges in working internationally as academic researchers, argues Farid Saleh.
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Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Nicolò Tellini, Matteo De Chiara, Simone Mozzachiodi, Lorenzo Tattini, Chiara Vischioni, Elena S. Naumova, Jonas Warringer, Anders Bergström, Gianni Liti
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Extinction drives recent thermophilization but does not trigger homogenization in forest understorey Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jeremy Borderieux, Jean-Claude Gégout, Josep M. Serra-Diaz
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One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 John Ethan Householder, Florian Wittmann, Jochen Schöngart, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Wolfgang J. Junk, Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Layon O. Demarchi, Guilherme de S. Lobo, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Rafael L. Assis, Aline Lopes, Pia Parolin, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Carolina
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Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yuchao Yan, Shilong Piao, William M. Hammond, Anping Chen, Songbai Hong, Hao Xu, Seth M. Munson, Ranga B. Myneni, Craig D. Allen
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Snakes’ tape of life Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Vera Domingues
Snakes and lizards (Squamata) are a diverse group, and represent one third of terrestrial vertebrates. Although both have tremendous morphological variation associated with feeding and locomotion, snakes show unique ecomorphological diversity and specialization. Writing in Science, Title et al. constructed a time-calibrated genomic phylogeny for 6,886 species of squamates that they use — together with
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Rapid range shifters show unexpected population dynamics Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jonathan Lenoir, Lise Comte
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Marine fishes experiencing high-velocity range shifts may not be climate change winners Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Shahar Chaikin, Federico Riva, Katie E. Marshall, Jean-Philippe Lessard, Jonathan Belmaker
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Fungi on film Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Simon Harold
The film begins in Kew Gardens, UK, with Sheldrake rummaging among the shelves of the fungarium, where — with the help of Kew’s collection team — he uncovers treasures such as specimens collected by Darwin from Tierra del Fuego. From here, we are transported down the lens of a microscope into the tangled world of hyphae and mycelia, whose growth is shown in glorious high-resolution time lapse and envelopes
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Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06
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Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Alfred Burian, Claire Kremen, James Shyan-Tau Wu, Michael Beckmann, Mark Bulling, Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi, Tamás Krisztin, Zia Mehrabi, Navin Ramankutty, Ralf Seppelt
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A global survey of prokaryotic genomes reveals the eco-evolutionary pressures driving horizontal gene transfer Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Marija Dmitrijeva, Janko Tackmann, João Frederico Matias Rodrigues, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Luis Pedro Coelho, Christian von Mering
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Trade-offs in biodiversity and ecosystem services between edges and interiors in European forests Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Thomas Vanneste, Leen Depauw, Emiel De Lombaerde, Camille Meeussen, Sanne Govaert, Karen De Pauw, Pieter Sanczuk, Kurt Bollmann, Jörg Brunet, Kim Calders, Sara A. O. Cousins, Martin Diekmann, Cristina Gasperini, Bente J. Graae, Per-Ola Hedwall, Giovanni Iacopetti, Jonathan Lenoir, Sigrid Lindmo, Anna Orczewska, Quentin Ponette, Jan Plue, Federico Selvi, Fabien Spicher, Hans Verbeeck, Florian Zellweger
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Prioritizing biodiversity in extreme events Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Marian Turner
Emergency situations often entail agonizing choices over what to save when time and resources are limited. Writing in Conservation Biology, Woinarski et al. suggest that some assumptions about societal priorities during responses to natural disasters may need revisiting. The authors surveyed 2,139 adult Australians who were randomly selected to reflect the country’s population. Respondents were asked
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Eve of extinction Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Catherine Hobaiter, Nathaniel J. Dominy
It is clear from the outset that Out of Darkness is no ordinary survivalist thriller. It transcends the genre, leaning heavily on Platonic philosophy while criticizing self-serving narratives of settler colonialism and organized religion (at times more subtly than others — two of the leads are Adem and Eva, with Adem declaring early on that “I am the light”). The filmmakers also collaborated closely
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Reassessment of the risks of climate change for terrestrial ecosystems Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Timo Conradi, Urs Eggli, Holger Kreft, Andreas H. Schweiger, Patrick Weigelt, Steven I. Higgins
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Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sky Button, Amaël Borzée
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Comparative genomics uncover the evolutionary history of butterfly and moth chromosomes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21
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Problem-solving skills are predicted by technical innovations in the wild and brain size in passerines Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Jean-Nicolas Audet, Mélanie Couture, Louis Lefebvre, Erich D. Jarvis
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Genomics of post-bottleneck recovery in the northern elephant seal Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 A. Rus Hoelzel, Georgios A. Gkafas, Hui Kang, Fatih Sarigol, Burney Le Boeuf, Daniel P. Costa, Roxanne S. Beltran, Joanne Reiter, Patrick W. Robinson, Nancy McInerney, Inge Seim, Shuai Sun, Guangyi Fan, Songhai Li
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Reply to: Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Mario R. Moura, Walter Jetz
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Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Charlotte J. Wright, Lewis Stevens, Alexander Mackintosh, Mara Lawniczak, Mark Blaxter
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Biogeographic patterns and drivers of soil viromes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Bin Ma, Yiling Wang, Kankan Zhao, Erinne Stirling, Xiaofei Lv, Yijun Yu, Lingfei Hu, Chao Tang, Chuyi Wu, Baiyu Dong, Ran Xue, Randy A. Dahlgren, Xiangfeng Tan, Hengyi Dai, Yong-Guan Zhu, Haiyan Chu, Jianming Xu
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Tyrannosaurus rex Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Stephen L. Brusatte
Cliché or classic? Stephen L. Brusatte celebrates the enduring appeal of T. rex.
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Two hundred years of dinosaurs Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-20
Two centuries after the first non-avian dinosaur was announced, we celebrate this iconic clade with some specially commissioned content and a consideration of past and current research questions.
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A complicated character Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Luíseach Nic Eoin
Richard Owen Patrick ArmstrongREAKTION BOOKS: 2023. 168 pp. £12.99 Unparalleled anatomist, museum mogul, family man, supportive mentor and (reputedly) the only man Darwin hated: Richard Owen was a mass of contradictions. His name is inextricable from the development of 19th century natural history, most famously in his role as the founder of both London’s Natural History Museum and the clade Dinosauria
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