Flowing Round the World: Water Snakes (Natricidae) Show Habitat-Related Adaptive Radiation After Dispersal to the New World by Victoria J. Pascolutti, Kevin Arbuckle

“…Adaptive radiations are characterized by increases in rates of lineage and trait evolution, typically due to the opening of new ecological opportunities such as may follow from dispersal to a new region or the evolution of a trait that allows exploitation of new niches. …”
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Evolutionary rewiring of bacterial regulatory networks by Tiffany B. Taylor, Geraldine Mulley, Liam J. McGuffin, Louise J. Johnson, Michael A. Brockhurst, Tanya Arseneault, Mark W. Silby, Robert W. Jackson

“…There is often extensive homology between components of different networks, due to past cycles of gene duplication, divergence, and horizontal gene transfer, raising the possibility of cross-talk or redundancy. …”
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Petrogenesis and geodynamic implication of the newly recorded Cryogenian Suwaj adakitic magmatism at the eastern Arabian-Shield by Mahmoud M. Hassan, Osama K. Dessouky, Abdullah M. Al Shammari, Adeeb N. Al Barakati, Saad M. Al Garni, Mubark M. Al Nahdi, Ashraf N. Al Qubsani, Wadee A. AlKashghari, Sobhi Nasir, Kamal A. Ali, Mahrous Abu El-Enen

“…The uniform compositional variation is primarily due to magmatic differentiation within parental magma across multiple pulses. …”
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Oxidizing ExoCAM: Introducing the Radiative Effects of Oxygen and Ozone into the ExoCAM General Circulation Model by Russell Deitrick, Colin Goldblatt, Eric T. Wolf, Tyler D. Robinson

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Decoding SFRP2 progenitors in sustaining tooth growth at single-cell resolution by Tianyuan Zhao, Qing Zhong, Zewen Sun, Xiaoyi Yu, Tianmeng Sun, Zhengwen An

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Industrial Microbial Technologies for Feed Protein Production from Non-Protein Nitrogen by Yuxin Ye, Yafan Cai, Fei Wang, Yi He, Yuxuan Yang, Zhengxiang Guo, Mengyu Liu, Huimin Ren, Shilei Wang, Dong Liu, Jingliang Xu, Zhi Wang

“…Due to the increasing global demand for feed protein, microbial protein has great potential of being able to feed sustainably. …”
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Microstructural Modification by Large Pre-Deformation and Post-Aging to Improve Properties in Al-Mg-Li Alloy by Zeyu Zheng, Peipei Ma, Longhui Chen, Chunhui Liu

“…Al-Mg-Li alloy is an ideal lightweight structural material for aerospace applications due to its low density, high specific strength, and excellent low-temperature performance. …”
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Evolutionary origins of synchronization for integrating information in neurons by Takashi Shibata, Takashi Shibata, Noriaki Hattori, Hisao Nishijo, Tsutomu Takahashi, Tsutomu Takahashi, Yuko Higuchi, Yuko Higuchi, Satoshi Kuroda, Kaoru Takakusaki

“…The evolution of brain-expressed genes is notably slower than that of genes expressed in other tissues, a phenomenon likely due to high-level functional constraints. …”
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The Green Chile Project. I. A New Catalog of Low-redshift Extended Emission-line Nebulae by Audrey F. Dijeau, Moire K. M. Prescott, Kelly N. Sanderson

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A Whole-Genome Survey and the Mitochondrial Genome of <i>Acanthocepola indica</i> Provide Insights into Its Phylogenetic Relationships in Priacanthiformes by Weihua Mao, Ziyi Xu, Qi Liu, Na Li, Lu Liu, Biyan Ren, Tianxiang Gao, Chuan Liu

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Tectonic Characteristics and Geological Significance of the Yeba Volcanic Arc in the Southern Lhasa Terrane by Zhengzhe Fan, Zhengren Yuan, Minghui Chen, Genhou Wang

“…The Southern Lhasa Terrane, as the southernmost tectonic unit of the Eurasian continent, has long been a focal area in global geoscientific research due to its complex evolutionary history. The Yeba Formation exposed in this terrane comprises an Early–Middle Jurassic volcanic–sedimentary sequence that records multiphase tectonic deformation. …”
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The <i>Meq</i> Genes of Nigerian Marek’s Disease Virus (MDV) Field Isolates Contain Mutations Common to Both European and US High Virulence Strains by Joseph N. Patria, Luka Jwander, Ifeoma Mbachu, Levi Parcells, Brian Ladman, Jakob Trimpert, Benedikt B. Kaufer, Phaedra Tavlarides-Hontz, Mark S. Parcells

“…Over the last 50 years, losses due to MDV infection have been controlled worldwide through vaccination; however, these live-attenuated vaccines are non-sterilizing and potentially contributed to the virulence evolution of MDV field strains. …”
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Phylogenomics of East Asian lineage within subgenus Anguinum (Allium, Amaryllidaceae): insights into its taxonomic puzzles and phylogenetic conflicts by Rui-Yu Cheng, Yuan Wang, Bo-Ni Song, Jin-Bo Tan, Jia-Hui Sun, Song-Dong Zhou, Xing-Jin He, Deng-Feng Xie

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Built‐In Electric Field Effects Tailoring Solvation Sheath and Desolvation Processes of Solvated Zn2+ Toward Stable Aqueous Rocking‐Chair Zinc‐Ion Batteries by Peng Cai, Xin He, Kangli Wang, Zidong Zhang, Qingyuan Wang, Yumeng Liu, Haomiao Li, Min Zhou, Wei Wang, Kai Jiang

“…According to X‐ray absorption near edge structure (XANES), differential electrochemical mass spectrometry (DEMS), and electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM), the intercalated species are transformed from [Zn(H2O)6]2+ to [Zn(H2O)2]2+ due to the built‐in electric fields (BEFs) effects, further accelerating the ion transfer kinetics. …”
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The effect of molnupiravir and nirmatrelvir on SARS-CoV-2 genome diversity in severe models of COVID-19 by Rebekah Penrice-Randal, Eleanor G. Bentley, Parul Sharma, Adam Kirby, I'ah Donovan-Banfield, Anja Kipar, Daniele F. Mega, Chloe Bramwell, Joanne Sharp, Andrew Owen, Julian A. Hiscox, James P. Stewart

“…The addition of nirmatrelvir increased viral clearance, which in turn reduces the probability of viral persistence and rapid intra-host evolution of SARS-CoV-2.…”
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The Radio Spectral Energy Distribution and Star Formation Calibration in MIGHTEE-COSMOS Highly Star-forming Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3.5 by Fatemeh Tabatabaei, Maryam Khademi, Matt J. Jarvis, Russ Taylor, Imogen H. Whittam, Fangxia An, Reihaneh Javadi, Eric J. Murphy, Mattia Vaccari

“…Studying the radio spectral energy distribution (SED) of distant galaxies is essential for understanding their assembly and evolution over cosmic time. We present rest-frame radio SEDs of a sample of 160 star-forming galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3.5 in the Cosmic Evolution Survey field as part of the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration project. …”
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The SUPERCOLD-CGM Survey. II. [C i](1–0) Emission and the Physical Conditions of Cold Gas in Enormous Lyα Nebulae at z ∼ 2 by Jianan Li, Bjorn H. C. Emonts, Zheng Cai, Jianrui Li, Ran Wang, Montserrat Villar-Martín, Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, Mingyu Li, Yunjing Wu, Ilsang Yoon, Matthew D. Lehnert, Kyle Massingill, Craig Sarazin, Jason X Prochaska, Mark Lacy, Brian Mason

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Complete sequencing of the mitochondrial genome of tea plant Camellia sinensis cv. ‘Baihaozao’: multichromosomal structure, phylogenetic relationships, and adaptive evolutionary an... by Zhiyin Chen, Zhiyin Chen, Zhiyin Chen, Zhiyin Chen, Zixu Wang, Zixu Wang, Zixu Wang, Zixu Wang, Wei Zhou, Wei Zhou, Wei Zhou, Wei Zhou, Sijie Liu, Sijie Liu, Sijie Liu, Sijie Liu, Yuxin Xiao, Yuxin Xiao, Yuxin Xiao, Yuxin Xiao, Yihui Gong, Yihui Gong, Yihui Gong, Yihui Gong

“…Additionally, 1.62% of the mitochondrial genome sequence was homologous to the chloroplast genome, carrying 26 complete functional genes, including 15 tRNA and 2 rRNA genes.DiscussionCodon usage bias may be related to mutation pressure due to the high AT content of the genome or reflect adaptive selection pressures for translational efficiency. …”
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The Featherweight Giant: Unraveling the Atmosphere of a 17 Myr Planet with JWST by Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Adina D. Feinstein, Peter Gao, Daniel Thorngren, Yoav Rotman, Luis Welbanks, Alexander Brown, Girish M. Duvvuri, Kevin France, Isabella Longo, Angeli Sandoval, P. Christian Schneider, David J. Wilson, Allison Youngblood, Andrew Vanderburg, Madyson G. Barber, Mackenna L. Wood, Natasha E. Batalha, Adam L. Kraus, Catriona Anne Murray, Elisabeth R. Newton, Aaron Rizzuto, Benjamin M. Tofflemire, Shang-Min Tsai, Jacob L. Bean, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Thomas M. Evans-Soma, Cynthia S. Froning, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Yamila Miguel, J. Sebastian Pineda

“…This highlights the dramatic evolution occurring within the first 100 Myr of its existence.…”
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Sn and Cu influence on Mg:Si ratios evolution in clusters based on DFT and its impact on precipitation hardening of pre-aged Al-1.0Mg-0.6Si alloys by Fengkai Lu, Jianguo Tang, Wenbin Tu, Huijin Tao, Lingying Ye, Shengdan Liu, Xin Zhan, Lehang Ma, Xiyan Hu, Chenlu Yu

“…Furthermore, a schematic model detailing the evolution of Mg:Si ratios in clusters is proposed, based on the APT results and DFT calculation of interaction energy.…”
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