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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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| 18 April 2019

Highly polymorphic mitochondrial DNA and deceiving haplotypic differentiation: implications for assessing population genetic differentiation and connectivity

Authors: S. Fourdrilis and T. Backeljau
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| 18 April 2019

Variation in pigmentation gene expression is associated with distinct aposematic color morphs in the poison frog Dendrobates auratus

Authors: Adam M. M. Stuckert, Emily Moore, Kaitlin P. Coyle, Ian Davison, Matthew D. MacManes, Reade Roberts and Kyle Summers
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| 16 April 2019

Phylogenetic mapping of scale nanostructure diversity in snakes

Authors: Marcelle I. Arrigo, Luis M. De Oliveira Vilaca, Anamarija Fofonjka, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, Adrien Debry and Michel C. Milinkovitch
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| 11 April 2019

Analysis of the coding sequences of clownfish reveals molecular convergence in the evolution of lifespan

Authors: Arne Sahm, Pedro Almaida-Pagán, Martin Bens, Mirko Mutalipassi, Alejandro Lucas-Sánchez, Jorge de Costa Ruiz, Matthias Görlach and Alessandro Cellerino
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| 11 April 2019

Evidence of local adaptation in a waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby fish derived from coupled biophysical modeling of larval dispersal and post-settlement selection

Authors: Kristine N. Moody, Johanna L. K. Wren, Donald R. Kobayashi, Michael J. Blum, Margaret B. Ptacek, Richard W. Blob, Robert J. Toonen, Heiko L. Schoenfuss and Michael J. Childress

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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
Content type: Research article
| 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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| 4 October 2011

In search of the genetic footprints of Sumerians: a survey of Y-chromosome and mtDNA variation in the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

Authors: Nadia Al-Zahery, Maria Pala, Vincenza Battaglia, Viola Grugni, Mohammed A Hamod, Baharak Hooshiar Kashani, Anna Olivieri, Antonio Torroni, Augusta S Santachiara-Benerecetti and Ornella Semino

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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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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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Highly polymorphic mitochondrial DNA and deceiving haplotypic differentiation: implications for assessing population genetic differentiation and connectivity

Variation in pigmentation gene expression is associated with distinct aposematic color morphs in the poison frog Dendrobates auratus

Phylogenetic mapping of scale nanostructure diversity in snakes

Analysis of the coding sequences of clownfish reveals molecular convergence in the evolution of lifespan

Evidence of local adaptation in a waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby fish derived from coupled biophysical modeling of larval dispersal and post-settlement selection

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

In search of the genetic footprints of Sumerians: a survey of Y-chromosome and mtDNA variation in the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

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