Distinct gene regulatory dynamics drive skeletogenic cell fate convergence during vertebrate embryogenesis by Menghan Wang, Ana Di Pietro-Torres, Christian Feregrino, Maëva Luxey, Chloé Moreau, Sabrina Fischer, Antoine Fages, Danilo Ritz, Patrick Tschopp

“…Depending on anatomical location, these cells originate from three different precursor lineages, yet they converge developmentally towards similar cellular phenotypes. …”
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Congenital haemangiomas: a single-centre retrospective review by Nicolas Grenier, Victoire Braun, Sorilla Prey, Carlotta Gurioli, Franck Boralevi, Alain Taieb, Maya Loot, Marie-Laure Jullie, Christine Léauté-Labrèze

“…We explore in our study clinical, evolutionary and paraclinical characteristics of the three CH subtypes.Design Children with CH attending our department of paediatric dermatology at Bordeaux University Hospital over a 13-year period were retrospectively included. …”
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Hydraulic engineering of Drusinae larvae: head morphologies and their impact on surrounding flow fields by Ariane Vieira, Hendrik C. Kuhlmann, Johann Waringer, Carina Zittra, Simon Vitecek, Stephan Handschuh

“…Typically, they live on the sediments of cold, well-oxygenated mountain streams from the Eurasian Region. However, each of the three evolutionary lineages (shredders, grazers and carnivorous filter feeders) inhabit different hydraulic locations according to their foraging behaviour. …”
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Biosynthesis of modular signaling molecules requires functional diversification of carboxylesterases in Pristionchus pacificus by Pei Zhang, Penghieng Theam, Wenya Xu, Shudan Ye, Hanh Witte, Tingwei Liu, Ralf J. Sommer, Chuanfu Dong

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Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade by Xueye Wang, Gaëlle Bocksberger, Mimi Arandjelovic, Anthony Agbor, Samuel Angedakin, Floris Aubert, Emmanuel Ayuk Ayimisin, Emma Bailey, Donatienne Barubiyo, Mattia Bessone, René Bobe, Matthieu Bonnet, Renée Boucher, Gregory Brazzola, Simon Brewer, Kevin C. Lee, Susana Carvalho, Rebecca Chancellor, Chloe Cipoletta, Heather Cohen, Sandi R. Copeland, Katherine Corogenes, Ana Maria Costa, Charlotte Coupland, Bryan Curran, Darryl J. de Ruiter, Tobias Deschner, Paula Dieguez, Karsten Dierks, Emmanuel Dilambaka, Dervla Dowd, Andrew Dunn, Villard Ebot Egbe, Manfred Finckh, Barbara Fruth, Liza Gijanto, Yisa Ginath Yuh, Annemarie Goedmakers, Cameron Gokee, Rui Gomes Coelho, Alan H. Goodman, Anne-Céline Granjon, Vaughan Grimes, Cyril C. Grueter, Anne Haour, Daniela Hedwig, Veerle Hermans, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Gottfried Hohmann, Inaoyom Imong, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Sorrel Jones, Jessica Junker, Parag Kadam, Mbangi Kambere, Mohamed Kambi, Ivonne Kienast, Kelly J. Knudson, Kevin E. Langergraber, Vincent Lapeyre, Juan Lapuente, Bradley Larson, Thea Lautenschläger, Petrus le Roux, Vera Leinert, Manuel Llana, Amanda Logan, Brynn Lowry, Tina Lüdecke, Giovanna Maretti, Sergio Marrocoli, Rumen Fernandez, Patricia J. McNeill, Amelia C. Meier, Paulina Meller, J. Cameron Monroe, David Morgan, Felix Mulindahabi, Mizuki Murai, Emily Neil, Sonia Nicholl, Protais Niyigaba, Emmanuelle Normand, Lucy Jayne Ormsby, Orume Diotoh, Liliana Pacheco, Alex Piel, Jodie Preece, Sebastien Regnaut, Francois G. Richard, Michael P. Richards, Aaron Rundus, Crickette Sanz, Volker Sommer, Matt Sponheimer, Teresa E. Steele, Fiona A. Stewart, Nikki Tagg, Luc Roscelin Tédonzong, Alexander Tickle, Lassané Toubga, Joost van Schijndel, Virginie Vergnes, Nadege Wangue Njomen, Erin G. Wessling, Jacob Willie, Roman M. Wittig, Kyle Yurkiw, Andrew M. Zipkin, Klaus Zuberbühler, Hjalmar S. Kühl, Christophe Boesch, Vicky M. Oelze

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Exploratory analysis of molecular traits of the mitochondrial DNA of leafcutting ants to infer taxonomic characters towards an integrative taxonomy by Perpetua Ndubuisi Onyinyechi, Natália Martins Travenzoli, Maykon Passos Cristiano, Danon Clemes Cardoso

“…Therefore, we use the leafcutting ant genera Amoimyrmex Cristiano et al., 2020, Atta Fabricius, 1804 and Acromyrmex Mayr, 1865 as models to evaluate a mitochondrial genome fragment regularly applied in phylogenetic and evolutionary studies. Bioinformatic analysis revealed shared structural evidence between species that can serve as diagnostic characters, distinguishing them from other species and supporting the classification of the three genera of leafcutting ants. …”
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BERT Mutation: Deep Transformer Model for Masked Uniform Mutation in Genetic Programming by Eliad Shem-Tov, Moshe Sipper, Achiya Elyasaf

“…Unlike traditional stochastic mutation methods, BERT mutation adapts dynamically by using historical fitness data to optimize mutation decisions, resulting in more effective evolutionary improvements. Through comprehensive evaluations across three benchmark domains, we demonstrate that BERT mutation significantly outperforms conventional and state-of-the-art mutation operators in terms of convergence speed and solution quality. …”
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Pareto Design of State Feedback Tracking Control of a Biped Robot via Multiobjective PSO in Comparison with Sigma Method and Genetic Algorithms: Modified NSGAII and MATLAB’s Toolbo... by M. J. Mahmoodabadi, M. Taherkhorsandi, A. Bagheri

“…Three points are chosen from the nondominated solutions of the obtained Pareto front based on two conflicting objective functions, that is, the normalized summation of angle errors and normalized summation of control effort. …”
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Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Eozapus (Mammalia, Rodentia, Zapodidae) with the description of a new species by Siyu Yang, Fei Xie, Chengxin Zhou, Zongyun Zhang, Xuming Wang, Shaoying Liu, Shunde Chen

“…In this study, we collected 51 specimens, sequenced one mitochondrial gene and two nuclear genes, and conducted morphological analyses to clarify the phylogenetic relationship and evolutionary history of this genus. Both molecular and morphological analyses supported the classification of these three species within the genus Eozapus. …”
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Screening great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses by Michelle Hämmerle, Meriam Guellil, Lovro Trgovec-Greif, Olivia Cheronet, Susanna Sawyer, Irune Ruiz-Gartzia, Esther Lizano, Aigerim Rymbekova, Pere Gelabert, Paolo Bernardi, Sojung Han, Thomas Rattei, Verena J. Schuenemann, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Katerina Guschanski, Sebastien Calvignac-Spencer, Ron Pinhasi, Martin Kuhlwilm

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Fluctuating reproductive isolation and stable ancestry structure in a fine-scaled mosaic of hybridizing Mimulus monkeyflowers. by Matthew C Farnitano, Keith Karoly, Andrea L Sweigart

“…Hybridization among taxa impacts a variety of evolutionary processes from adaptation to extinction. …”
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The cavernicolous freshwater prawn in China, with description of two new species (Decapoda, Palaemonidae, Macrobrachium) by Xuankong Jiang, Jiajun Zhou, Kayan Ma, Yaqin Wang, Zhicai Xie, Huiming Chen

“…Genetic gaps were observed among these species, with high interspecific distances (8.90%–27.43% for COI and 1.91%–9.63% for 16S) and low intraspecific distances (maximum 3.98% for COI and 0.47% for 16S). In contrast, morphological taxonomy identified three species and one species complex, which comprises three cryptic species. …”
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Flowing Round the World: Water Snakes (Natricidae) Show Habitat-Related Adaptive Radiation After Dispersal to the New World by Victoria J. Pascolutti, Kevin Arbuckle

“…This results in clades that have accumulated unusually high biological diversity within a relatively short evolutionary timespan and hence the phenomenon has attracted longstanding interest amongst evolutionary biologists. …”
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Mechanical Characteristics and Mesostructural Damage of Saturated Limestone under Different Load and Unload Paths by Jielin Li, Liu Hong, Keping Zhou, Caichu Xia, Longyin Zhu

“…To study the evolutionary characteristics of mesostructural damage to saturated limestone under different loading and unloading paths, three types of loading and unloading tests involving three different loading rates and initial peak stresses were performed. …”
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Intraspecific Variation and Recent Loss of Ancient, Conserved Effector Genes in the Sudden Oak Death Pathogen Phytophthora ramorum by Nicholas C. Cauldron, Caroline M. Press, Alexandra J. Weisberg, Marília Horta Jung, Tamara Corcobado, Joan F. Webber, Koji Kageyama, Ayaka Hieno, Hayato Masuya, Seiji Uematsu, Bruno Scanu, Clive M. Brasier, Thomas Jung, Jeff H. Chang, Niklaus J. Grünwald

“…Recent discovery of P. ramorum at its candidate center of origin in Asia provides a new opportunity for investigating the evolutionary history of the species. We assembled high-quality genome sequences of six P. ramorum isolates representing three lineages from Asia and three causing epidemics in Western U.S. forests. …”
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The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos by Gerhard W. Weber, Petra G. Šimková, Daniel M. Fernandes, Olivia Cheronet, Előd Úry, Harald Wilfing, Katarina Matiasek, Alejandro Llano-Lizcano, Pere Gelabert, Immo Trinks, Katerina Douka, Sabine Ladstätter, Tom Higham, Martin Steskal, Ron Pinhasi

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The complete mitochondrial genome of Vaccinium oldhamii Miquel, a plant of the Ericaceae family by Da Hyun Lee, Woo Hyun Sim, Chung Youl Park, Do Hyun Kim, Jun Hyeok Kim, Hyeon Min Kim, Sang Hoon Che, Wan Geun Park, Chae Sun Na, Sangrea Shim

“…The genome includes 38 protein-coding genes, 24 tRNA genes, and three rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis revealed a close relationship with V. macrocarpon. …”
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Adapting the facial action coding system for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) to bonobos (Pan paniscus): the ChimpFACS extension for bonobos by Catia Correia-Caeiro, Paul Henrik Kuchenbuch, Linda S. Oña, Franziska Wegdell, Maël Leroux, André Schuele, Jared Taglialatela, Simon Townsend, Martin Surbeck, Bridget M. Waller, Katja Liebal

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Author Correction: Comparative mitogenomics of freshwater snails of the genus Bulinus, obligatory vectors of Schistosoma haematobium, causative agent of human urogenital schistosom... by Si-Ming Zhang, Lijing Bu, Lijun Lu, Caitlin Babbitt, Coen M. Adema, Eric S. Loker

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Highly precise community science annotations of video camera‐trapped fauna in challenging environments by Mimi Arandjelovic, Colleen R. Stephens, Paula Dieguez, Nuria Maldonado, Gaëlle Bocksberger, Marie‐Lyne Després‐Einspenner, Benjamin Debetencourt, Vittoria Estienne, Ammie K. Kalan, Maureen S. McCarthy, Anne‐Céline Granjon, Veronika Städele, Briana Harder, Lucia Hacker, Anja Landsmann, Laura K. Lynn, Heidi Pfund, Zuzana Ročkaiová, Kristeena Sigler, Jane Widness, Heike Wilken, Antonio Buzharevski, Adeelia S. Goffe, Kristin Havercamp, Lydia L. Luncz, Giulia Sirianni, Erin G. Wessling, Roman M. Wittig, Christophe Boesch, Hjalmar S. Kühl

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