bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology

Developmental genetic basis of dorsal spine reduction in acidic-adapted threespine stickleback fish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.04.667941v1

Local adaptation of Gladiolus carneus to soil nutrient extremes in the Cape Floristic Region https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668149v1

Protein sequence evolution underlies interspecies incompatibility of a cell fate determinant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668269v1

Pleistocene reindeer dental calculus as a source for ancient oral and digestive flora https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668267v1

Fish Show Genetic Evolutionary Responses to River Regulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668107v1

Identifying the Levant as a potential contact and interbreeding zone for Neanderthals and modern humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668257v1

Hypermutable hotspot enables the rapid evolution of self/non-self recognition genes in Dictyostelium https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668227v1

Conservation and diversification of mating behavior patterns among three sibling species in the Drosophila subobscura species subgroup https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667830v1

The frequency and importance of polyploidy in tropical rainforest tree radiations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667178v1

Evidence for Toxin-Encoding Coinfections Driving Intransitive Dynamics Between Allelopathic Phenotypes in Natural Yeast Populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667734v1

Characterization of the Post-Mating Responses of Drosophila hydei, a species that lacks Sex-Peptide. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667665v1

RADIALIS origin and expression suggest ancestral function in female organs of seed plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667799v1

The evolutionary tale of tailocins in Pectobacterium show genus-wide homologous recombination and inversions of tail fiber genes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667677v1

The risk of sexual reproduction promotes the evolution of regulation between host and symbionts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667627v1

Genomic regions exhibiting divergent methylation patterns covary with loci associated with mate choice traits in a stick insect https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667717v1

Optimal tuning not required: Birds communicate effectively with mismatched auditory filters. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667030v1

A niche construction-based perspective on chemical evolution before replication and reproduction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667458v1

Local resource heterogeneity drives density-dependent dispersal expression in a phoretic mite https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667385v1

Environment heterogeneity creates fast amplifiers of natural selection in graph-structured populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667961v1

Natural variation in pigmentation caused by cis-regulatory changes affecting expression of the ebony gene in Drosophila elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667336v1

Molecular evolution of terpene synthase underlying the diversification of isoprene emission in Fagaceae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667835v1

Admixture and environment shape population genetic and phytochemical variation across a conifer hybrid zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667945v1

AVITI library prep miniaturization and combining with Illumina data for phylogenomic and population genomic analyses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667782v1

Historical Contingency Limits Adaptive Diversification in a Spatially Structured Environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.667043v1

Two decades of resurrection studies: What have we learned about contemporary evolution of plant species? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.667050v1

Parental age effects on offspring telomere length across vertebrates: a meta-analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.26.666864v1

Inferences from epigenetic information in an ecological context: a case study of early-life environmental effects on DNA methylation in zebra finches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667588v1

The diversity and host range of endogenous caulimovirids illuminate the ancient origin and early evolution of the Caulimoviridae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666790v1

Dosage compensation and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation are maintained in the absence of selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.667025v1

Intra- and Interspecific Divergence of FXPRLamide Neuropeptide-Receptor Interactions in flies (Diptera) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666740v1