Are Open Science instructions targeted to ecologists and evolutionary biologists sufficient? A literature review of guidelines and journal data policies by Elina Koivisto, Elina Mäntylä

“…To find this out, we reviewed 20 published OS guideline articles aimed for ecologists or evolutionary biologists, together with the data policies of 17 Ecol Evol journals to chart the current landscape of OS guidelines in the field, find potential gaps, identify field‐specific barriers for OS and discuss solutions to overcome these challenges. …”
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Feels Good Man by Travis Maynard

“…The assignment asks students to document the origins and evolution of a cultural meme (as coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins) as it is adapted for different rhetorical situations, modeled for students in the titular documentary film Feels Good Man. …”
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Decolonial Exhumation, or the Future Where No One Is Home: Writing Abuse at the Trans-Queer-Feminist Intersection of Tropical Archipelagic Thinking by B.B.P. Hosmillo

“…Inspired by Saidiya Hartman’s concept of “critical fabulation” and also informed by the work of plant evolutionary biologist Banu Subramaniam, decolonial exhumation is a creative mission to develop an epistemology and aesthetics that celebrates the fragmentary, lost, partial, incomplete, and perpetually unrecoverable. …”
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Oceanic island biogeography: Nomothetic science of the anecdotal by Shai Meiri

“…<p>Islands get more than their fair share of attention from biogeographers, macroecologists and evolutionary biologists. Adding to this existing bias, I claim that oceanic islands, especially oceanic island archipelagos (and among them, especially the Hawaii, the Canaries, Azores and, of course, the Galapagos) attract much more scientific attention than the insights they offer or warrant. …”
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L’émergence et l’évolution du langage humain du point de vue des neurosciences by Jacques François

“…After reminding that the origin of natural languages, of grammar and of human language are three separate questions (part I), this contribution enumerates the disciplines jointly interested in language evolution while evoking the appeal of language for evolutionary biologists (part II). It also yields material about the contribution of evolutionary neurosciences to the study of language genesis (part III).…”
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DNA Methylation: Insights into Human Evolution. by Irene Hernando-Herraez, Raquel Garcia-Perez, Andrew J Sharp, Tomas Marques-Bonet

“…A fundamental initiative for evolutionary biologists is to understand the molecular basis underlying phenotypic diversity. …”
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Is facultative sex the best of both worlds in the parasitoid wasp Lysiphlebus fabarum? by Rebecca A Boulton

“…The prevalence of sexual reproduction has long puzzled evolutionary biologists. This is because asexual parthenogenesis is a more efficient mode of reproduction, and all-else-being-equal, should predominate over sex. …”
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Beyond genes‐for‐behaviour: The potential for genomics to resolve long‐standing questions in avian brood parasitism by Katja Rönkä, Fabrice Eroukhmanoff, Jonna Kulmuni, Pierre Nouhaud, Rose Thorogood

“…Brood parasite–host interactions are one of the most easily observable and amenable natural laboratories of antagonistic coevolution, and as such have intrigued evolutionary biologists for decades. Using worked examples, we demonstrate how genomic data can be used to study the causes and mechanisms of (co)evolutionary adaptation and answer three key questions for the field: (i) Where and when should brood parasitism evolve?…”
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Epidemic spread of influenza viruses: The impact of transient populations on disease dynamics by Karen R. Ríos-Soto, Baojun Song, Carlos Castillo-Chavez

“…Assessing the role of animal reservoirs, particularly reservoirs involving highly mobile populations (like migratory birds), on disease dispersal and persistence is of interests to a wide range of researchers including public health experts and evolutionary biologists. This paper studies the interactions between transient and resident bird populations and their role on dispersal and persistence. …”
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SegmentR: Deep learning for automated segmentation with an R interface by James D. Boyko

“…Manual image segmentation is time-consuming and can be subjective, while existing automated solutions often require extensive coding experience or utilize coding languages not typically used by practicing ecologists and evolutionary biologists. Here, I present SegmentR, a user-friendly software package that leverages two state-of-the-art deep learning models – GroundinDINO and an efficient version of the Segment Anything Model (SAM). …”
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When field experiments yield unexpected results: lessons learned from measuring selection in White Sands lizards. by Kayla M Hardwick, Luke J Harmon, Scott D Hardwick, Erica Bree Rosenblum

“…Determining the adaptive significance of phenotypic traits is key for understanding evolution and diversification in natural populations. However, evolutionary biologists have an incomplete understanding of how specific traits affect fitness in most populations. …”
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Rapid radiations underlie most of the known diversity of life by John J. Wiens, Daniel S. Moen

“…Rapid radiations, including adaptive radiations, are of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists, in large part because they are thought to underlie much of the species diversity of life. …”
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Evolution of cetacean-specific conserved non-coding elements suggests their role in the limb changes during secondary aquatic adaptation by Zhenhua Zhang, Zhenpeng Yu, Yujie Chong, Yao Liu, Jia Liu, Wenhua Ren, Shixia Xu, Guang Yang

“…Exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying limb evolution in cetaceans has attracted considerable attention from evolutionary biologists. Results In the present study, conserved non-coding elements (CNEs) closely associated with limb development, which exhibited lineage-specific sequence divergence (nucleotide mutations and indels) in cetaceans, were identified using comparative genomics. …”
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APPROACH TO THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE ON DODDERS (CUSCUTA L. CONVOLVULACEAE) FROM A TAXONOMIC, MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW by Maria TĂNASE

“…The dodder has long been considered a curiosity by botanists and evolutionary biologists because it has particularly interesting and even enigmatic features when examined with great care and interest. …”
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Experimental evolution of a pathogen confronted with innate immune memory increases variation in virulence. by Ana Korša, Moritz Baur, Nora K E Schulz, Jaime M Anaya-Rojas, Alexander Mellmann, Joachim Kurtz

“…Understanding the drivers and mechanisms of virulence evolution is still a major goal of evolutionary biologists and epidemiologists. Theory predicts that the way virulence evolves depends on the balance between the benefits and costs it provides to pathogen fitness. …”
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Flowing Round the World: Water Snakes (Natricidae) Show Habitat-Related Adaptive Radiation After Dispersal to the New World by Victoria J. Pascolutti, Kevin Arbuckle

“…This results in clades that have accumulated unusually high biological diversity within a relatively short evolutionary timespan and hence the phenomenon has attracted longstanding interest amongst evolutionary biologists. Natricidae is a family of snakes with a primarily Old World distribution but which have colonized the New World on a single occasion. …”
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Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates by Sydney K. Decker, Kaiya L. Provost, Bryan C. Carstens

“…Highlights Phylogeographic breaks, particularly in species with high dispersal ability, are of interest to evolutionary biologists as a potential precursor to speciation. …”
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PlastidHub: An integrated analysis platform for plastid phylogenomics and comparative genomics by Na-Na Zhang, Gregory W. Stull, Xue-Jie Zhang, Shou-Jin Fan, Ting-Shuang Yi, Xiao-Jian Qu

“…Give that PlastidHub is easy to use without specialized computational skills or resources, this new platform should be widely used among botanists and evolutionary biologists, improving and expediting research employing the plastome. …”
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A new selective force driving metabolic gene clustering by Marco Fondi, Francesco Pini, Christopher Riccardi, Pietro Gemo, Matteo Brilli

“…ABSTRACT The evolution of operons has puzzled evolutionary biologists since their discovery, and many theories exist to explain their emergence, spreading, and evolutionary conservation. …”
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Spawning Asynchrony and Mixed Reproductive Strategies in a Common Mass Spawning Coral by Gerard F. Ricardo, Christopher Doropoulos, Russell C. Babcock, Arne A. S. Adam, Elizabeth Buccheri, Natalia Robledo, Julian Uribe‐Palomino, Peter J. Mumby

“…ABSTRACT Understanding strategies of organisms that utilise multiple modes of reproduction presents a complex challenge for evolutionary biologists. The genus Platygyra, a common reef‐building coral with unclear reproductive boundaries among morphological species, illustrates these complexities. …”
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