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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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| 20 April 2018

Evolving in the highlands: the case of the Neotropical Lerma live-bearing Poeciliopsis infans (Woolman, 1894) (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) in Central Mexico

Authors: Rosa Gabriela Beltrán-López, Omar Domínguez-Domínguez, Rodolfo Pérez-Rodríguez, Kyle Piller and Ignacio Doadrio
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| 19 April 2018

Assessing the benefits of horizontal gene transfer by laboratory evolution and genome sequencing

Authors: Hoi Yee Chu, Kathleen Sprouffske and Andreas Wagner
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| 19 April 2018

Ecological opportunity may facilitate diversification in Palearctic freshwater organisms: a case study on hydrobiid gastropods

Authors: Diana Delicado, Torsten Hauffe and Thomas Wilke
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| 18 April 2018

Evidence for late Pleistocene origin of Astyanax mexicanus cavefish

Authors: Julien Fumey, Hélène Hinaux, Céline Noirot, Claude Thermes, Sylvie Rétaux and Didier Casane
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| 11 April 2018

Parapatric genetic divergence among deep evolutionary lineages in the Mediterranean green crab, Carcinus aestuarii (Brachyura, Portunoidea, Carcinidae), accounts for a sharp phylogeographic break in the Eastern Mediterranean

Authors: Temim Deli, Evrim Kalkan, Selahattin Ünsal Karhan, Sonya Uzunova, Alireza Keikhosravi, Raşit Bilgin and Christoph D. Schubart

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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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| 27 April 2015

The ancestral shape hypothesis: an evolutionary explanation for the occurrence of intervertebral disc herniation in humans

Authors: Kimberly A Plomp, Una Strand Viðarsdóttir, Darlene A Weston, Keith Dobney and Mark Collard

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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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Evolving in the highlands: the case of the Neotropical Lerma live-bearing Poeciliopsis infans (Woolman, 1894) (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) in Central Mexico

Assessing the benefits of horizontal gene transfer by laboratory evolution and genome sequencing

Ecological opportunity may facilitate diversification in Palearctic freshwater organisms: a case study on hydrobiid gastropods

Evidence for late Pleistocene origin of Astyanax mexicanus cavefish

Parapatric genetic divergence among deep evolutionary lineages in the Mediterranean green crab, Carcinus aestuarii (Brachyura, Portunoidea, Carcinidae), accounts for a sharp phylogeographic break in the Eastern Mediterranean

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

The ancestral shape hypothesis: an evolutionary explanation for the occurrence of intervertebral disc herniation in humans

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