The evolutionary origins of pesticide resistance

NJ Hawkins, C Bass, A Dixon, P Neve - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Durable crop protection is an essential component of current and future food security.
However, the effectiveness of pesticides is threatened by the evolution of resistant …

Evolutionary pathways and trajectories in antibiotic resistance

F Baquero, JL Martinez, V F. Lanza… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Evolution is the hallmark of life. Descriptions of the evolution of microorganisms have
provided a wealth of information, but knowledge regarding “what happened” has precluded …

Mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of mutators during experimental evolution

M Amicone, V Borges, MJ Alves, J Isidro… - … medicine, and public …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background and objectives To understand how organisms evolve, it is fundamental to study
how mutations emerge and establish. Here, we estimated the rate of mutation accumulation …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary velocity with protein language models predicts evolutionary dynamics of diverse proteins

BL Hie, KK Yang, PS Kim - Cell Systems, 2022 - cell.com
The degree to which evolution is predictable is a fundamental question in biology. Previous
attempts to predict the evolution of protein sequences have been limited to specific proteins …

Epistatic models predict mutable sites in SARS-CoV-2 proteins and epitopes

J Rodriguez-Rivas, G Croce… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The emergence of new variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) is a major concern given their potential impact on the transmissibility and …

Epistasis and adaptation on fitness landscapes

C Bank - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Epistasis occurs when the effect of a mutation depends on its carrier's genetic background.
Despite increasing evidence that epistasis for fitness is common, its role during evolution is …

Towards multidrug adaptive therapy

J West, L You, J Zhang, RA Gatenby, JS Brown… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
A new ecologically inspired paradigm in cancer treatment known as “adaptive therapy”
capitalizes on competitive interactions between drug-sensitive and drug-resistant subclones …

Quantification of subclonal selection in cancer from bulk sequencing data

MJ Williams, B Werner, T Heide, C Curtis, CP Barnes… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Subclonal architectures are prevalent across cancer types. However, the temporal
evolutionary dynamics that produce tumor subclones remain unknown. Here we measure …

Evolution in the light of fitness landscape theory

I Fragata, A Blanckaert, MAD Louro, DA Liberles… - Trends in ecology & …, 2019 - cell.com
By formalizing the relationship between genotype or phenotype and fitness, fitness
landscapes harbor information on molecular and evolutionary constraints. The shape of the …

Natural selection and the predictability of evolution in Timema stick insects

P Nosil, R Villoutreix, CF de Carvalho, TE Farkas… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Predicting evolution remains difficult. We studied the evolution of cryptic body coloration and
pattern in a stick insect using 25 years of field data, experiments, and genomics. We found …