Building, maintaining, and (re-) deploying genetic toolkits during convergent evolution

TH Oakley - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A surprising insight from the advent of genomic sequencing was that many genes are deeply
conserved during evolution. With a particular focus on genes that interact with light in …

Ancient secretory pathways contributed to the evolutionary origin of an ecologically impactful bioluminescence system

LY Mesrop, G Minsky, MS Drummond… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Evolutionary innovations in chemical secretion—such as the production of secondary
metabolites, pheromones, and toxins—profoundly impact ecological interactions across a …

An integrative understanding of evolutionary convergence across organisms and biological scales

ES Lau, RM Varney… - … and Comparative Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The extent to which evolution is predictable is a long-standing question in biology, with
implications for urgent biological issues such as viral evolution, the emergence of antibiotic …