MBE publishes fresh insights into the patterns and processes that impact the evolution of life at molecular levels.
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
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@sungbin.bsky.social et al. explore the evolutionary forces behind prfB autoregulation loss to illustrate how compensatory evolution can favor trait loss when the fitness benefit of losing the trait outweighs its cost.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag125
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
@eksramos.bsky.social et al. reveal that the marine transition in turtles is characterized by rapid evolution and expansion of genes linked to iron metabolism, organ morphogenesis, sensory perception, mirroring other secondarily marine tetrapods.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag114
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This June, the cover of MBE features our recent paper by @hugodarras.bsky.social et al., who identify two genomic rearrangements that determine an extreme reproductive polymorphism in ants.
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Guttieres et al. suggest that core molecular interactions of the cadherin–catenin complex are conserved in ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, suggesting this was an ancestral trait foundational to the evolution of multicellular animals.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag123
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Pisani, @elpiratavell.bsky.social et al. dissipate doubts about the utility of models accounting for compositional heterogeneity across sites and identify CAT-GTR as one of the most flexible models in the phylogenomic arsenal.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag090
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Muñoz-Mérida & Muñoz-Pajares introduce the concept of the pan-functionome — the full set of protein functions encoded by the proteome of individuals belonging to a taxonomic group — and explore its evolutionary implications.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag121
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