Plasticity drives the trait variation of a foundation marsh species migrating into coastal forests with sea‐level rise by Ezra J. Kottler, Matthew B. Hamilton, Keryn B. Gedan

“…Therefore, to predict the fate of areas undergoing climate‐driven ecosystem shifts, one approach is to characterize ecological and evolutionary responses of foundation species along dynamic environmental gradients. …”
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Typing of clinical and reference strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and MALDI-TOF MS by Justyna Cieślik, Zofia Bakuła, Katarzyna Roeske, Aleksandra Kuryłek, Alicja Okrasińska, Jacek Bielecki, Marta Wróblewska, Tomasz Jagielski

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Characterization and Enzymatic Assay of Cellulase-Producing Probiotic Bacteria Isolated from Traditional Fermented Bamboo of Bangladesh by Mauching Marma, Koushik Chakroborty, Jong Min Lee, Zinia Rahman, S. M. Rafiquzzaman

“…The sample was collected from Khagrachari hill tracts district of Bangladesh. Three isolated bacteria, namely FB-1, FB-2, and FB-3, screened based on the carboxymethyl cellulose medium, were tested for biochemical and probiotic properties, and the best isolate was genetically identified by molecular characterization through 16S rRNA gene sequencing and evolutionary analysis. …”
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Acoustic response characteristics of damage and instability precursors of rocks with different lithologies by Chuangye Wang, Qingrui Sui, Xinke Chang, Yuhang Yan, Huangjin Zhu, Yu Guo

“…The low-frequency AE signals of the three types of rocks converge to large values when the rock approaches instability and failure. …”
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Sex-biased gene expression across tissues reveals unexpected differentiation in the gills of the threespine stickleback by Sylvestre, Florent, Aubin-Horth, Nadia, Bernatchez, Louis

“…Sex is determined by a young XY sex chromosome pair with a non-recombining region divided into three strata, which have started to degenerate. Using the high multiplexing capability of 3′ QuantSeq to sequence the sex-biased transcriptome of the liver, gills, and brain, we provide the first characterization of sex-specific transcriptomes from ~80 sticklebacks (40 males and 40 females) collected from a natural population during the reproductive period. …”
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Mitochondrial genome insights into the phylogenetics and biogeographic evolution of snow trout (Cyprinidae, Schizothorax) in the Tien Shan Mountains by Akbarjon Rozimov, Yufan Wang, Min Wang, Ming Zou, Jobir Sobirov, Erkin Karimov, Bakhtiyor Kholmatov, Jörg Freyhof, Sirojiddin Namozov, Chongnv Wang, Xinxin Li, Baocheng Guo

“…However, research has been hindered by poorly understood phylogenetic relationships, unresolved taxonomic classifications, and ambiguous biogeographical histories, particularly in the underexplored western regions of the Tien Shan Mountains. Here, we analyzed three mitochondrial genomes assembled using the next-generation sequencing data of three snow trout species, S. eurystomus, S. fedtschenkoi, and Schizothorax sp., from the western Tien Shan Mountains. …”
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Genetic Erosion in Captive Alpine Musk Deer Highlights the Challenges of Conserving Endangered Species in Closed Populations by Han Jiang, Luyao Hai, Zhengwei Luo, Xianna Lan, Mi Zhou, Xinghu Qin, Defu Hu

“…In response, China established the world’s first captive breeding facility for this species in 1990. Despite over three decades of closed breeding, the genetic consequences of long-term captivity remain unclear. …”
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Quantitative reconstruction of phase states and evolution of condensate and gas in the western Kelasu Thrust Belt, Kuqa Depression, Tarim Basin by Zhihua He, Chengsheng Chen, Chao Wu, Shuyong Shi, Tao Mo, Min Liu, Naidong Chen, Yunpeng Wang

“…The reservoir fluids of all wells except for well DB-302 experienced phase differentiation, changing from gas-liquid coexistence phase (GLCP) to liquid or condensate phase. Three evolutional pathways for the reservoir fluids represent three distinct scenarios: (1) Transition from GLCP to liquid phase, resulting from the reservoir formation mechanism by mainly early oil charge with no or minor late gas charge. (2) Transition from GLCP to condensate phase, resulting from the reservoir formation mechanism by early oil charge and subsequent gas charge. (3) Continuous maintenance in the gas phase, resulting from the reservoir formation mechanism by a large amount of late gas charge with no or very small amount of early oil charge. …”
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Novel estrogen-related gene variants identified by whole-exome sequencing in pregnancy-associated intrahepatic cholestasis by Hua Lai, Siming Xin, Jinliang Zhang, Yang Hu, Wenjuan Fan, Hong Wan, Bowen Chen, Yang Zou, Xiaoming Zeng, Xianxian Liu

“…These variants exhibited the following characteristics: (1) complete absence in 1,237 controls and all public genomic databases (1000 Genomes, ExAC, and dbSNP); (2) evolutionary conservation of the affected residues, with unanimous pathogenic predictions from all algorithms (PolyPhen-2: damaging; SIFT: deleterious; MutationTaster: disease-causing); (3) molecular modeling demonstrating structural perturbations in critical functional domains, including steroid-binding and redox partner interaction sites. …”
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How to survive the mutational meltdown: lessons from plant RNA viruses by Lafforgue, Guillaume, Lefebvre, Marie, Michon, Thierry, Elena, Santiago F.

“…In this study, we aim to investigate the role of bottleneck size, the maximum population size between consecutive bottlenecks, and the generation of genetic diversity in countering the effects of Muller’s ratchet. We observed three distinct evolutionary outcomes for tobacco etch virus under three different demographic conditions: (i) a decline in fitness following periodic severe bottlenecks in Chenopodium quinoa, (ii) a consistent fitness level with moderate bottlenecks in C. quinoa, and (iii) a net increase in fitness when severe bottlenecks in C. quinoa were alternated with large population expansions in Nicotiana tabacum. …”
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Psychosocial and context factors associated with breastfeeding and complementary feeding changes in Belize: a mixed methods approach by Jurgita Slekiene, Anna Elisabeth Gamma, Paulette Wade, Denise Robateau, Jecinter Akinyi Oketch, Silvie Palacios

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Genome-wide identification and analysis of GH1-containing H1 histones among poplar species by Ping Li, Jing Wang, Qimin Zhang, Anmin Yu, Rui Sun, Aizhong Liu

“…In the present research, 21 GH1-containing proteins found in Populus trichocarpa were classified into three subgroups (H1s, Myb (SANK) GH1 and AT-hook GH1) based on their domains. …”
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Effects of mode of reproduction on genetic polymorphism and divergence in wild yams (Dioscoreaceae: Dioscorea) by Xin Wang, Qing-Hong Feng, Zhi-Hua Zeng, Zhi-Qiang Zhang, Jie Cai, Gao Chen, De-Zhu Li, Hong Wang, Wei Zhou

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Low dose ribosomal DNA P-loop mutation affects development and enforces autophagy in Arabidopsis by Thiruvenkadam Shanmugam, Palak Chaturvedi, Deniz Streit, Arindam Ghatak, Thorsten Bergelt, Stefan Simm, Wolfram Weckwerth, Enrico Schleiff

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Self-Adaptive MOEA Feature Selection for Classification of Bankruptcy Prediction Data by A. Gaspar-Cunha, G. Recio, L. Costa, C. Estébanez

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Tree species distribution and phylogenetic diversity across southern South America by Vanessa Leite Rezende

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Epidemiology, Transmission, and Evolution of Japanese Encephalitis Virus by Chengcheng Peng, Huiling Qin, Fan Yu, Yujia Hao, Yuge Yuan, Wenzhou Ma, Duo Zhang, Pengpeng Xiao, Nan Li

“…The average evolutionary rates of JEV were comparable (3.3830 × 10⁻⁴, 2.0481 × 10⁻⁴, 3.5650 × 10⁻⁴, 2.2423 × 10⁻⁴, 3.0844 × 10⁻⁴, and 1.9757 × 10⁻⁴ substitutions/site/year for the JEV-I whole genome, JEV-III whole genome, JEV-I E gene, JEV-III E gene, JEV-I NS1 gene, and JEV-III NS1 gene, respectively). …”
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Repeated parallel evolution of parental care strategies within Xenotilapia, a genus of cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika. by Michael R Kidd, Nina Duftner, Stephan Koblmüller, Christian Sturmbauer, Hans A Hofmann

“…However, most attempts to examine parental care in an evolutionary context have evaluated broad taxonomic categories. …”
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Birds as sacred ‘children of god’, beholders of spirit and symbols of twinhood: Human–bird interaction among the Nuer in western Ethiopia by Abebayehu Aticho, Abebe Beyene, Shimelis Aynalem Zelelew, Changkuoth Puok, Andrew G. Gosler, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Desalegn Chala

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Two sides of the same coin: extinctions and originations across the Atlantic/Indian Ocean boundary as consequences of the same climate oscillation by Peter R. Teske, Gerardo I. Zardi, Christopher D. McQuaid, Katy R. Nicastro

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