Assessing Biocultural Diversity Across Scales Using Ecological Indicators by Bryam Mateus-Aguilar, Andrés Felipe Díaz-Salazar, Federico Andrade-Rivas, Natasha M. Batista, Anaid Cárdenas-Navarrete, Armando Dávila Arenas, Katherine Victoria Hernandez, Guido A. Herrera-R, Kelley E. Langhans, Dallas R. Levey, Andrew Neill, Oliver Nguyen, Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, Andrés Felipe Suárez-Castro, Felipe Zapata, Alejandra Echeverri

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Phylogenomic Signatures of a Lineage of Vesicular Stomatitis Indiana Virus Circulating During the 2019–2020 Epidemic in the United States by Selene Zarate, Miranda Bertram, Case Rodgers, Kirsten Reed, Angela Pelzel-McCluskey, Ninnet Gomez-Romero, Luis L. Rodriguez, Christie Mayo, Chad Mire, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Lauro Velazquez-Salinas

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A modern mode of activation for nucleic acid enzymes. by Dominique Lévesque, Francis P Brière, Jean-Pierre Perreault

“…We suggest that the complexity of the modern cellular metabolism might have been an important selective pressure in this evolutionary process.…”
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A comprehensive genome-wide study on tissue-specific and abiotic stress-specific miRNAs in Triticum aestivum. by Ritu Pandey, Gopal Joshi, Ankur R Bhardwaj, Manu Agarwal, Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal

“…RLM-RACE of predicted targets of three known miRNAs (miR156, miR160 and miR164) confirmed their mRNA cleavage, thus indicating their regulation at post-transcriptional level by the corresponding miRNAs. …”
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Minimal metabolic pathway structure is consistent with associated biomolecular interactions by Aarash Bordbar, Harish Nagarajan, Nathan E Lewis, Haythem Latif, Ali Ebrahim, Stephen Federowicz, Jan Schellenberger, Bernhard O Palsson

“…This study suggests an underlying and fundamental principle in the evolutionary selection of pathway structures; namely, that pathways may be minimal, independent, and segregated.…”
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"Cu-coo": can you recognize my stepparents?--A study of host-specific male call divergence in the common Cuckoo. by Won-Ju Jung, Jin-Won Lee, Jeong-Chil Yoo

“…The presence of multiple host-specific races in the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus has long been recognized as an evolutionary enigma but how this genetic divergence could be maintained is still equivocal. …”
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A Plasmoid Model for Mass Loss from Stars on the Upper Red Giant Branch: The Mass-loss Rate is Controlled by the Number of Density Scale Heights in the Convection Zone by J. MacDonald, D. J. Mullan

“…For three distinct stellar samples, we find strong anticorrelations between the average postkink RGB mass-loss rate and the number of density scale heights in the convection zone. …”
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Relationship between human evolution and neurally mediated syncope disclosed by the polymorphic sites of the adrenergic receptor gene α2B-AR. by Tomoyoshi Komiyama, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Kyoko Sato, Akira Oka, Hiroshi Kamiguchi, Eiichiro Nagata, Hiroshi Sakura, Kuniaki Otsuka, Hiroyuki Kobayashi

“…We focused on the following three genotypes of the repeat polymorphism site at Glu 301-303 in the α2B-AR gene: Glu12/12, Glu12/9, and Glu9/9. …”
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Vaccines against Covid-19: the Comparative Estimates of Risks in Adenovirus Vectors by E. P. Kharchenko

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Government subsidy-penalty strategy to promote low-carbon multimodal transportation using dynamic-static combination mechanism by Xinghua Hu, Ruizi Cheng, Jiahao Zhao, Xiaochuan Zhou

“…To address these issues, this study first constructs an evolutionary game model with government and multimodal transport operators (MTOs) as the game subjects and proposes three dynamic and static subsidy-penalty combination mechanisms to address the limitations of the static subsidy-penalty mechanism. …”
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Positions of cysteine residues reveal local clusters and hidden relationships to Sequons and Transmembrane domains in Human proteins by Manthan Desai, Bingyun Sun

“…Most importantly, by comparing the positions of Cys residues to those of sequons and TMs, we discovered that these structural features can form dense clusters in highly repeated and mutually exclusive modalities in protein sequences. The evolutionary advantages of such complementarity among the three structural features are discussed, particularly in light of structural dynamics in proteins that are lacking from computational predictions. …”
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Arginine-Based Inhibitors of Nitric Oxide Synthase: Therapeutic Potential and Challenges by Jan Víteček, Antonín Lojek, Giuseppe Valacchi, Lukáš Kubala

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Retrospective research: identifying and conducting phylogenetic analyses on four Orf virus strains isolated in Yunnan province between 2021 and 2023—revealing their significance an... by Jiarui Xie, Meiling Kou, Yinan Wang, Xiaohang Su, Huafeng Gao, Haisheng Miao

“…Eleven scab samples from goats on small farms in three Yunnan municipalities were collected. Four ORFV strains were isolated and characterized using scanning electron microscopy, cytopathic effect observation, and PCR. …”
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Protein multiplicity: exemplifying an overwhelmingly likely pattern of molecular evolution? by Les Hatton, Greg Warr

“…CoHSI predicts that when considered globally across all three domains of life and the viruses, multiplicity will show a distinctive variant of the Zipfian distribution. …”
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Metal hyperaccumulation armors plants against disease. by Helen Fones, Calum A R Davis, Arantza Rico, Fang Fang, J Andrew C Smith, Gail M Preston

“…Metal hyperaccumulation, in which plants store exceptional concentrations of metals in their shoots, is an unusual trait whose evolutionary and ecological significance has prompted extensive debate. …”
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Genomic analyses support locally derived crown-of-thorns seastar outbreaks in the Pacific by Carlos Leiva, Marta Martín-Huete, Sarah Lemer

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Environmental microbial reservoir influences the bacterial communities associated with Hydra oligactis by Jay Bathia, Máté Miklós, István Gyulai, Sebastian Fraune, Jácint Tökölyi

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Modelling the evolution and spread of HIV immune escape mutants. by Helen R Fryer, John Frater, Anna Duda, Mick G Roberts, SPARTAC Trial Investigators, Rodney E Phillips, Angela R McLean

“…The model is an extension of the well-known SI model of disease transmission and includes three further parameters that describe host immunogenetic heterogeneity and rates of within host viral evolution. …”
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Biogeography of soda lake microbiome and uneven cross-continent transition rates by Minglei Ren, Jianjun Wang

“…Our results revealed that the global biogeography of soda lake microbial communities across three continents and their distinct transition history between continents. …”
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First evidence of Limoniidae (Diptera: Nematocera) in French amber from Oise by Katarzyna Kopeć, Wiesław Krzemiński, Iwona Kania-Kłosok, Maksymilian Syratt, André Nel, Agnieszka Soszyńska

“…Abstract This paper describes three new species found as inclusions in Early Eocene amber from Oise (northern France). …”
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