Responses of C4 grasses to aridity reflect species‐specific strategies in a semiarid savanna by Nicole A. Havrilchak, Jason B. West

“…Abstract The C4 Poaceae are a diverse group in terms of both evolutionary lineage and biochemistry. There is a distinct pattern in the distribution of C4 grass groups with aridity; however, the mechanistic basis for this distribution is not well understood. …”
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Comparative chloroplast genomes and phylogenetic analyses shed new insights on the phyloevolution of different ploidy in Camellia reticulata by Zhifeng Fan, Xiaodan Xu, Qi Wang, Wei Zheng

“…Currently, limited information exists regarding the evolutionary characteristics of the chloroplast genomes of C. reticulata at different ploidy levels, and the phylogenetic position of 2 × and 4 × C. reticulata remains unclear. …”
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Structural analysis of an Asterias rubens peptide indicates the presence of a disulfide‐directed β‐hairpin fold by Rozita Takjoo, David T. Wilson, Justine Le Quilliec, Casey A. Schmidt, Guangzu Zhao, Michael J. Liddell, Naeem Y. Shaikh, Kartik Sunagar, Alex Loukas, Michael J. Smout, Norelle L. Daly

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Construction and clinical visualization application of a predictive model for mortality risk in sepsis patients based on an improved machine learning model by Ting Chen, Xuefeng Zhang, Qunfeng Yu, Qin Yang, Lingmin Yuan, Fei Tong

“…The SWSELM model achieved ROC-AUC and PR-AUC values of 0.9760 and 0.9624, respectively, on the training set, and 0.9387 and 0.9390, respectively, on the test set, both significantly higher than those of three other prediction models. The SWSELM model identified 10 important features, with multivariate logistic regression retaining five variables: B-type Natriuretic Peptide Precursor (NT-proBNP), Lactate, Albumin, Oxygenation Index, and Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) (OR = 4.889, 3.770, 3.083, 1.872, 1.297), consistent with the top five features selected by the SWSELM model.ConclusionNT-proBNP, Lactate, Albumin, Oxygenation Index, and Mean Arterial Pressure are independent risk factors for mortality in sepsis patients. …”
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Case study: Assessment of long‐term rocky intertidal biodiversity monitoring at Cabrillo National Monument by Christine C. Bonadonna, Lauren L. M. Pandori, Celia C. Symons

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Emendation of morphology and infrageneric standards of Parasola (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) and its species diversity in China by LiYang Zhu, Tolgor Bau

“…Through extensive fieldwork across ten provinces in China, this study discovered eight proposed new species and three new records to the country, each accompanied by detailed description and line drawings. …”
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Crocodylian remains from the Miocene of the Fore-Carpathian Basin and its foreland—including the world’s northernmost Neogene crocodylian by Marcin Górka, Jakub Březina, Milan Chroust, Rafał Kowalski, Sergi López-Torres, Mateusz Tałanda

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A Holistic Approach to Parasitoid–Host Interaction Along an Elevational Gradient Revealed Coevolution Driven by Host Foraging Strategy by Ľudmila Černecká, Radek Michalko, Jakub Sýkora, Peter Gajdoš, Pavol Purgat, Kamil Holý, Martina Dorková, Stanislav Korenko

“…Further, on the basis of a large‐scale dataset, we examined the hypothesis that three‐dimensional webs in spiders may be an evolutionary adaptation against polysphinctine parasitoids. …”
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Weak evidence for heritable changes in response to selection by aphids in Arabidopsis accessions by Marc W Schmid, Klara Kropivšek, Samuel E Wuest, Bernhard Schmid, Ueli Grossniklaus

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Can High Temperatures Affect Body Size in Insects? The Case of Rubyspot Damselflies in the Colombian Western Andes by Cornelio A. Bota-Sierra, Adolfo Cordero-Rivera, Rodolfo Novelo-Gutiérrez, Melissa Sánchez-Herrera, Gustavo A. Londoño

“…Finally, phylogenetic reconstruction showed all species clustered in three clades. Each clade in the phylogenetic tree shares similar habitat preferences, pointing to a mixture of evolutionary history, thermal adaptations, and body mass differences as a possible explanation for the great diversity of these damselflies in a small area. …”
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Marsupial cathelicidins: characterization, antimicrobial activity and evolution in this unique mammalian lineage by Emma Peel, Emma Peel, Adele Gonsalvez, Adele Gonsalvez, Carolyn J. Hogg, Carolyn J. Hogg, Katherine Belov, Katherine Belov

“…Cathelicidin genes were encoded in a highly syntenic region of the genome amongst all mammals, although the number of gene clusters differed amongst lineages (eutherians one, marsupials two, and monotremes three). 32 extant and ancestral marsupial cathelicidins displayed rapid, potent, and/or broad-spectrum antibacterial and antifungal activity. …”
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Iteratively mapping ancient DNA to reconstruct highly divergent mitochondrial genomes: An evaluation of software, parameters and bait reference by Michael V. Westbury, Eline D. Lorenzen

“…Specifically, we assessed the accuracy of results through three parameters: pairwise distance to a reference conspecific mitogenome, number of incorrectly inserted base pairs and total length of the assembly. …”
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Molecular characterization of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 full and partial genomes by Illumina massively parallel sequencing technology. by Rodrigo Pessôa, Jaqueline Tomoko Watanabe, Youko Nukui, Juliana Pereira, Jorge Casseb, Augusto César Penalva de Oliveira, Aluisio Cotrim Segurado, Sabri Saeed Sanabani

“…A comparison of the nucleotide and amino acids of the FLG between the three clinical settings yielded no correlation between the sequenced genotype and clinical outcomes. …”
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Molecular phylogeography of East Asian Boea clarkeana (Gesneriaceae) in relation to habitat restriction. by Ying Wang, Kun Liu, De Bi, Shoubiao Zhou, Jianwen Shao

“…., a unique resurrection herb endemic to China, focusing on geographically restrictive effects of habitat distribution on evolutionary history. Variation in three chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) intergenic spacers (psbA-trnH, rps12-rpl20, and trnL-trnF), the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and simple sequence repeats in expressed sequence tags (EST-SSRs) was investigated across 18 populations to assess genetic diversity, genetic structure and historical dynamics. …”
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Creating better internships by understanding mentor challenges: findings from a series of focus groups by Joel R. Schneider, Truls Aaby, Sanne Boessenkool, Emma Falkeid Eriksen, Kristin Holtermann, Iver Martens, Jonathan Soulé, Ariel Steele, Susanne Zazzera, Gro I. van der Meeren, Gaute Velle, Sehoya Cotner, A. Kelly Lane

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Uncovering the multi-layer cis-regulatory landscape of rice via integrative nascent RNA analysis by Marina Goliasse, Aurore Johary, Adrian E. Platts, Fabian Ortner-Krause, Patrick P. Edger, Jae Young Choi, Michael D. Purugganan, Zoé Joly-Lopez

“…Abstract Background Efforts to characterize regulatory elements in plant genomes traditionally rely on evolutionary conservation and chromatin accessibility. …”
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Dermatophytes adaptation to the human host exemplified by Microsporum canis by Xin Zhou, Ricardo Belmonte, Chao Tang, Vania Aparecida Vicente, Sybren de Hoog, Peiying Feng

“…The results demonstrated a high degree of consistency in the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes among the three Microsporum species, while significant differences were observed in protein domains. …”
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Quantifying the intra- and inter-species community interactions in microbiomes by dynamic covariance mapping by Melis Gencel, Gisela Marrero Cofino, Cang Hui, Zahra Sahaf, Louis Gauthier, Chloé Matta, David Gagné-Leroux, Derek K. L. Tsang, Dana P. Philpott, Sheela Ramathan, Alfredo Menendez, Shimon Bershtein, Adrian W. R. Serohijos

“…Our results reveal how ecological and evolutionary dynamics jointly shape microbiome structure over time. …”
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A Retrospective Analysis of Changes in Respiratory Pathogens During the Influenza Season Before and After the Relaxation of Non‐Pharmaceutical Intervention Policies by Lin Zhang, Xiang Long, Yun‐Ju Yuan, Su‐Li Zhao

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Automated cell annotation in multi-cell images using an improved CRF_ID algorithm by Hyun Jee Lee, Jingting Liang, Shivesh Chaudhary, Sihoon Moon, Zikai Yu, Taihong Wu, He Liu, Myung-Kyu Choi, Yun Zhang, Hang Lu

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