Ian Dworkin

Ah, got it.

yes. I agree that there needs to be some follow through on checking this. When I am an AE on papers I do detail what I specifically expect to see in the repository.

Sorry, for clarification. Is there not a DOI for the data on dryad (or figshare or zenodo etc..), and does it not contain the raw data?

Or you don't like to have to access the data via dryad/etc...

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Body size, wing area, and wing loading follow a pattern of trait conservatism in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.12.705663v1

Now I need to learn a new language... Gen Z.

I think these papers may be relevant here

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Tl;dr, the idea is that a wide class of functions exhibit “simplicity bias” when the inputs are selected randomly from a uniform distribution, and that this effect biases biology to simplicity.

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Levels of additive genetic variation vary substantially between species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.22.701036v1

Highly repeatable phenotypic consequences of whole genome duplication in Spirodela polyrhiza https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.23.701260v1

Spontaneous Emergence and Turnover of the Sex-Determining Locus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.26.701609v1

Laboratory and wild Drosophila sechellia have conserved niche specialization phenotypes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.26.701819v1

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Evolutionary Divergence of mTOR-mediated Transcriptional Regulation Between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans is Modulated by Sex and Tissue https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.699128v1

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Behavior evolves as a correlated response to selection on cuticle color in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699118v1

Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.05.697705v1

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