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Ecology & Evolution, July 2021

Volume 5 Issue 7, July 2021

Volume 5 Issue 7

Y chromosomes matter

Females of Poecilia parae are large and grey (centre), but males are always one of five discrete morphs that differ in colour, body size and mating behaviour. Each morph has a unique Y chromosome, allowing the different complex reproductive strategies to be passed on perfectly from father to son.

See Sandkam, B. A.et al.

Image: Wouter van der Bijl and Benjamin Sandkam. Cover Design: Allen Beattie.

Editorial

Editorial | 07 July 2021

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Correspondence

Correspondence | 22 April 2021

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Comment & Opinion

Q&A | 19 May 2021

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Obituary | 17 May 2021

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News & Views

News & Views | 06 May 2021

The Y chromosome of the freshwater fish Poecilia parae may have successively evolved five haplotypes that are maintained in the population for alternative male reproductive strategies.

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News & Views | 13 May 2021

Simulations of eco-evolutionary processes involved in artificial selection of microbial communities provide a guide to optimize experimental design for improving ecosystem functions.

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Reviews

Perspective | 13 May 2021

Remote sensing of geospatial biodiversity patterns is an important complement to field observations. This priority list suggests how remote sensing observations can be better integrated into the essential biodiversity variables.

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Perspective | 17 May 2021

This Perspective examines how systems ecology models that incorporate pathogens can transform our understanding of ecosystem functioning, disease ecology, and the detection and control of zoonoses.

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Research

Article | 06 May 2021

The authors explore dental development in a stem-chondrichthyan ischnacanthid acanthodian to inform our understanding of the ancestral gnathostome dental condition, finding that although dermal oral tubercles are a conserved feature of early gnathostomes, the complex cyclic shedding dentitions and whorls appear to have evolved multiple times.

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Article | 10 May 2021 |

Nautilus, the sole surviving externally shelled cephalopod from the Palaeozoic, holds an important phylogenetic position to understand the evolution of cephalopods. A complete genome of Nautilus pompilius sheds light on the evolution of the pinhole eye and biomineralization.

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Article | 06 May 2021

Males of the freshwater fish Poecilia parae occur as one of five morphs with different reproductive strategies that are controlled by five Y haplotypes. Analysis of Y chromosomes of the five morphs shows extreme diversity in the three major morphs despite constraints imposed by lack of recombination of sex chromosomes.

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Article | 03 May 2021

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Mechanisms underlying interactions in insect–pollinator systems remain unknown. Analysis of high-quality genomes of Ficus pumila var. pumila and its specific pollinating wasp, Wiebesia pumilae, reveals molecular mechanisms underlying this coevolved mutualism.

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Article | 29 April 2021

Citizen-science data on bird observations from eastern North America show that the timing of spring arrival of migratory birds is broadly correlated with fluctuations in vegetation green-up but that the varying sensitivity of different bird species to this phenological event is linked to their different migratory strategies.

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Article | 03 May 2021

Combining a published dataset of stable carbon isotopes from herbivore tooth enamel with multidecadal Landsat estimates of C3 woody cover across 30 African ecosystems, the authors show that there is little relationship between intrataxonomic variation in δ13C enamel and vegetation structure, leading them to recommend a community-level approach for making vegetation inferences.

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Article | 10 May 2021

Geospatial analysis of forest canopy damage in over half the area burned in the 2019–20 southeast Australian wildfires shows that spatial factors and weather determine burning severity much more than past logging and wildfire disturbance.

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Article | 13 May 2021

A simulation study integrates existing artificial selection methods to develop a ‘top-down’ approach to engineering complex, stable microbial communities based on iterated randomization and selection of community structure and function.

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Article | 20 May 2021

Analysis of exome sequencing data from 42 baseline and progression biopsies from cetuximab-treated colorectal cancers reveals limited adaptive mutagenesis but shows a chemotherapy-induced mutational signature that is the main contributor of specific driver mutations that are enriched at acquired resistance.

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Article | 17 May 2021

The spatial and physical nature of tumour growth remains unclear. Combining whole-tumour images from clear cell renal cell carcinoma with genomic data, the authors show more aggressive subclonal growth and metastasizing subclones in the tumour centre.

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Amendments & Corrections

Author Correction | 24 May 2021

  • Andrew K. Skidmore
  • Nicholas C. Coops
  • Vladimir Wingate

Retraction | 18 May 2021

  • Rubén Delgado Manzanedo
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  • Neil Pederson

Retraction | 18 May 2021

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