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Featured blog: Swim fast, die young: seminal fluid from competing males prompts sperm to swim faster despite possible costs

Leaf-cutting ant queens have one only mating event in their lives, when they will mate with a number of male partners and then store the sperm which they will use to fertilize millions of eggs throughout their lives. Here, Liberti and colleagues explain more about this ants unique mating biology and how the sperm has evolved to survive being stored for many years.

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Featured article: Can a simple infection affect the evolution of a host species?

Wolbachia are endosymbiont bacteria commonly found in insects. They can play an important role in both the ecology and evolution of their host though reproductive manipulation. Here, Schuler and colleagues investigated whether patterns of Wolbachia infection in Belonocnema treatae gall wasps is associated with the insects geographical distribution, plant affiliation, life cycle and evolutionary history.

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| 16 October 2018

Nunataks or massif de refuge? A phylogeographic study of Rhodiola crenulata (Crassulaceae) on the world’s highest sky islands

Authors: Yuan-Zhen Zhang, Ruo-Wei Zhu, Da-Lv Zhong and Jian-Qiang Zhang
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| 16 October 2018

Hampered motility promotes the evolution of wrinkly phenotype in Bacillus subtilis

Authors: Anne Richter, Theresa Hölscher, Patrick Pausch, Tim Sehrt, Franziska Brockhaus, Gert Bange and Ákos T Kovács
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| 12 October 2018

Factors driving effective population size and pan-genome evolution in bacteria

Authors: Louis-Marie Bobay and Howard Ochman
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| 11 October 2018

Multiple refugia from penultimate glaciations in East Asia demonstrated by phylogeography and ecological modelling of an insect pest

Authors: Wei Song, Li-Jun Cao, Bing-Yan Li, Ya-Jun Gong, Ary Anthony Hoffmann and Shu-Jun Wei
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| 10 October 2018

Comparative analysis reveals the complex role of histoblast nest size in the evolution of novel insect abdominal appendages in Sepsidae (Diptera)

Authors: Dacotah Melicher, Kathy F Y Su, Rudolf Meier and Julia H Bowsher

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| 29 April 2013

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

Authors: R Alexander Pyron, Frank T Burbrink and John J Wiens
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| 8 November 2007

BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees

Authors: Alexei J Drummond and Andrew Rambaut
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| 1 September 2015

The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa

Authors: James C. Lamsdell, Derek E. G. Briggs, Huaibao P. Liu, Brian J. Witzke and Robert M. McKay
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| 23 January 2013

Molecular decay of enamel matrix protein genes in turtles and other edentulous amniotes

Authors: Robert W Meredith, John Gatesy and Mark S Springer
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| 22 June 2011

Evolutionary history of Otophysi (Teleostei), a major clade of the modern freshwater fishes: Pangaean origin and Mesozoic radiation

Authors: Masanori Nakatani, Masaki Miya, Kohji Mabuchi, Kenji Saitoh and Mutsumi Nishida

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BMC Evolutionary Biology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of molecular and non-molecular evolution of all organisms, as well as phylogenetics and palaeontology.

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Alison Cuff, BioMed Central

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Maria Anisimova, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Michael Brockhurst, University of Sheffield

David Ferrier, University of St Andrews

Laura Kubatko, Ohio State University

David Liberles, Temple University

Craig Moritz, Australian National University

Herve Philippe, Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling

Arne Traulsen, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

Arndt von Haeseler, Max F Perutz Laboratories

Arndt von Haeseler, Section Editor

Arndt von Haeseler is a full Professor for Bioinformatics at the University of Vienna and at the Medical University of Vienna. His work focuses on methods to understand and model evolutionary processes and to infer evolutionary relationships. He became a Section Editor in 2010.

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Nunataks or massif de refuge? A phylogeographic study of Rhodiola crenulata (Crassulaceae) on the world’s highest sky islands

Hampered motility promotes the evolution of wrinkly phenotype in Bacillus subtilis

Factors driving effective population size and pan-genome evolution in bacteria

Multiple refugia from penultimate glaciations in East Asia demonstrated by phylogeography and ecological modelling of an insect pest

Comparative analysis reveals the complex role of histoblast nest size in the evolution of novel insect abdominal appendages in Sepsidae (Diptera)

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees

The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa

Molecular decay of enamel matrix protein genes in turtles and other edentulous amniotes

Evolutionary history of Otophysi (Teleostei), a major clade of the modern freshwater fishes: Pangaean origin and Mesozoic radiation

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