Macro and micro diversity of Clostridium difficile isolates from diverse sources and geographical locations. by Richard A Stabler, Lisa F Dawson, Esmeralda Valiente, Michelle D Cairns, Melissa J Martin, Elizabeth H Donahue, Thomas V Riley, J Glenn Songer, Ed J Kuijper, Kate E Dingle, Brendan W Wren

“…This study helps to define the evolutionary origin of dominant C. difficile lineages and demonstrates that C. difficile is continuing to evolve in concert with human activity.…”
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Genetic diversity and spread of recombinant coxsackievirus A4 in hand, foot, and mouth disease cases in Bangkok, Thailand: 2017–2023 by Jiratchaya Puenpa, Sumeth Korkong, Preeyaporn Vichaiwattana, Yong Poovorawan

“…The estimated emergence of genotypes C1 and C3 in Thailand occurred around 2014, with an evolutionary rate of 5.8 × 10− 3 nucleotide substitutions per site per year. …”
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Comparative analysis of RNA families reveals distinct repertoires for each domain of life. by Marc P Hoeppner, Paul P Gardner, Anthony M Poole

“…To chart the broad evolutionary history of known RNA families, we performed comparative genomic analysis of over 3 million RNA annotations spanning 1446 families from the Rfam 10 database. …”
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Phylodynamic inference and model assessment with approximate bayesian computation: influenza as a case study. by Oliver Ratmann, Gé Donker, Adam Meijer, Christophe Fraser, Katia Koelle

“…However, the concomitant incidence dynamics result in a very large reproductive number and are not consistent with empirical estimates of H3N2's population level attack rate. These results demonstrate that the interactions between the evolutionary and ecological processes impose multiple quantitative constraints on the phylodynamic trajectories of influenza A(H3N2), so that sequence and surveillance data can be used synergistically. …”
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Bacterial response to the 2021 Orange County, California, oil spill was episodic but subtle relative to natural fluctuations by Melissa L. Brock, Joana F. Tavares-Reager, Jialin Dong, Alyse A. Larkin, Toan Lam, Nataly Pineda, Christopher I. Olivares, Katherine R. M. Mackey, Adam C. Martiny

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The Hedyotis diffusa chromosome-level genome and multi-omics analysis provide new insights into the iridoids biosynthetic pathway by Pengyu Chen, Pengyu Chen, Zhuang Huang, Zhuang Huang, Mingzhu Yin, Yu-xin Wen, Yu-xin Wen, Qi Jiang, Qi Jiang, Ping Huang, Rui Qian, Rui Qian, Xing Hong, Xing Hong, Kaojiang Zhu, Kaojiang Zhu, Benjiang Xiao, Benjiang Xiao, Meng Chen, Meng Chen, Shihao Li, Shihao Li, Fang Huang, Lin-tao Han, Lin-tao Han

“…Expression profiling showed that MEP/MVA pathway genes were predominantly expressed in roots, while iridoid biosynthesis genes exhibited tissue-specific patterns. Three candidate genes—LAMT, OAT, and CYP71—were implicated in iridoid post-modification processes. …”
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A REMARKABLE FEATURE OF BIODIVERSITY OF THE COASTAL, MARINE AND ISLAND ECOSYSTEMS OF THE CASPIAN SEA. A NEW LOOK AT THE AGE OF ISLANDS AND LEVEL MODE by G. M. Abdurahmanov, A. A. Teymurov

“…To solve this problem prepared three-dimensional model of the bottom of the Middle and North of the Caspian sea in GIS "Map 2011". …”
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Genome-wide identification and gene expression analysis of the malate dehydrogenase (MDH) gene family in Eucalyptus grandis by Yifan Xing, Yifan Xing, Huiming Xu, Deming Yang, Lichuan Deng, Guolong Li, Guolong Li, Zhixin Zhao, Zhixin Zhao, Zhaohua Lu, Liuyin Ma, Guangyou Li

“…Phylogenetics revealed three MDH clades: green algal-derived Groups I/II and red algal-derived Group III. …”
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Genetically distinct hantaviruses in two bat species in Panamá by Karen Yamada, Fuka Kikuchi, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Pablo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Publio E. González D., Blas Armién, Mihail Pérez-Callejas, Danielle Land, Jocelyn P. Colella, Tetsuya Mizutani, Ken Maeda, Motoi Suzuki, Stephen E. Greiman, Carlos Alberto Carrión-Bonilla, Joseph A. Cook, Richard Yanagihara, Satoru Arai

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Identification and functional characterization of cardiac pacemaker cells in zebrafish. by Federico Tessadori, Jan Hendrik van Weerd, Silja B Burkhard, Arie O Verkerk, Emma de Pater, Bastiaan J Boukens, Aryan Vink, Vincent M Christoffels, Jeroen Bakkers

“…We previously showed that in mammalian embryos sinus node cells originate from cardiac progenitors expressing the transcription factors T-box transcription factor 3 (Tbx3) and Islet-1 (Isl1). Although cardiac development and function are strikingly conserved amongst animal classes, in lower vertebrates neither structural nor molecular distinguishable components of a conduction system have been identified, questioning its evolutionary origin. …”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Dimorphopterus japonicus (Hidaka, 1959) (Hemiptera, Lygaeoidea) and phylogenetic relationships within the Lygaeoidea superfamily by Wanqing Zhao, Yating Wang, Tianshu Jia, Yufei Zhang, Yiru Wang, Dajun Liu, Hufang Zhang

“…The mitogenomic structure of D. japonicus is highly conservative and there are no gene rearrangements. The evolutionary rates of the PCGs are in the order of atp8 > nad3 > nad6 > nad2 > nad5 > atp6 > nad4 > nad4L > cox2 > nad1 > cytb > cox3 > cox1. …”
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Genome-Wide identification and expression profiles of the WRKY transcription factor family in Artocarpus nanchuanensis by Xiao Zhang, Changying Xia, Shiqi You, Yunli Chen, Youwei Zuo, Huan Zhang, Wenqiao Li, Zhe Zhang, Hongping Deng

“…These genes could be classified into 3 groups (Group I, Group IIa-IIe, Group III) based on phylogenetic analysis and the sequence characteristics of the AnWRKY domain. …”
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A Novel q-PED Method: Precise Physical Properties of a Merger-origin Binary Cepheid OGLE-LMC-CEP-1347 by Felipe Espinoza-Arancibia, Bogumił Pilecki

“…The expected mass of the Cepheid was below 3.5 M _⊙ , which, if confirmed, would also probe uncharted territory. …”
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Phylogeny and species delimitation of ciliates in the genus Spirostomum (class Heterotrichea) using single-cell transcriptomes by Shahed Uddin Ahmed Shazib, Auden Cote-L’Heureux, Ragib Ahsan, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, JunMo Lee, Laura A. Katz, Mann Kyoon Shin

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Meeting Report on “10th Anniversary Symposium on Inflammatory Skin Disease” by Shirin Emtenani, John F. Baines, Katja Bieber, Evelyn Gaffal, Stephanie Goletz, Gema Hernández, Misa Hirose, Markus Hoffmann, Pascal Joly, Henriette Kirchner, Jörg Köhl, Sripriya Murthy, Sabrina Patzelt, Frank Petersen, Manuela Pigors, Gabriela Riemekasten, Leon F. Schmidt-Jiménez, Tanya Sezin, Malte Spielmann, Diamant Thaçi, Nina van Beek, Jens Waschke, Ralf J. Ludwig, Enno Schmidt

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Freshwater Foraminifera Biodiversity in New England (USA): Evaluation of Field Sites and a Botanical Garden by Adri K. Grow, Laura A. Katz

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Sodium‐enriched nectar shapes plant–pollinator interactions in a subalpine meadow by Ethan VanValkenburg, Thiago Gonçalves Souza, Nathan J. Sanders, Paul CaraDonna

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Pyrenees as the southernmost European refugium of glacial relict land snails by Michal Horsák, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Eulàlia Pladevall-Izard, Aaron Pérez-Haase, Sara Kafimola, Veronika Horsáková

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Comparative Analysis of Codon Usage Patterns in the Chloroplast Genomes of <i>Fagopyrum</i> Species by Qilin Liu, Shurui Li, Dinghong He, Jinyu Liu, Xiuzhi He, Chengruizhi Lin, Jinze Li, Zhixuan Huang, Linkai Huang, Gang Nie, Xinquan Zhang, Guangyan Feng

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Investigating the formation and evolution of plant diversity patterns in the Qiangtang Plateau based on phylofloristics approach by Xiaoping Li, Yun Han, Lei Miao, Hao Xu, Jingya Yu, Shuang Han, Faqi Zhang

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