Life | Hot Papers on Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary biology seeks to understand how the astonishing diversity of life on our planet arose by integrating insights from genomes, developmental biology, natural population studies, and experimental analyses. Please find below articles related to this field:

1. “Fern-like Plants Establishing the Understory of the Late Devonian Xinhang Lycopsid Forest”
by Jiangnan Yang, Deming Wang, Le Liu and Yi Zhou
Life 2024, 14(5), 602; https://doi.org/10.3390/life14050602
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/5/602

2. “A High-Pressure, High-Temperature Flow Reactor Simulating the Hadean Earth Environment, with Application to the Pressure Dependence of the Cleavage of Avocado Viroid Hammerhead Ribozyme”
by Kunio Kawamura, Mari Ogawa, Noriko Konagaya, Yoshimi Maruoka, Jean-François Lambert, Louis M. P. Ter-Ovanessian, Jacques Vergne, Guy Hervé and Marie-Christine Maurel
Life 2022, 12(8), 1224; https://doi.org/10.3390/life12081224
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/8/1224

3. “Novel Apparatuses for Incorporating Natural Selection Processes into Origins-of-Life Experiments to Produce Adaptively Evolving Chemical Ecosystems”
by Robert Root-Bernstein and Adam W. Brown
Life 2022, 12(10), 1508; https://doi.org/10.3390/life12101508
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/10/1508

4. “Autocatalytic Sets Arising in a Combinatorial Model of Chemical Evolution”
by Wim Hordijk, Mike Steel and Stuart Kauffman
Life 2022, 12(11), 1703; https://doi.org/10.3390/life12111703
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/11/1703

5. “Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Fagus longipetiolata Seemen (Fagaceae): Genome Structure, Adaptive Evolution, and Phylogenetic Relationships”
by Daqu Liang, Haoyun Wang, Jun Zhang, Yuanxiang Zhao and Feng Wu
Life 2022, 12(1), 92; https://doi.org/10.3390/life12010092
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/1/92

6. “Identification and Current Palaeobiological Understanding of “Keratosa”-Type Nonspicular Demosponge Fossils in Carbonates: With a New Example from the Lowermost Triassic, Armenia”
by Cui Luo, Yu Pei, Sylvain Richoz, Qijian Li and Joachim Reitner
Life 2022, 12(9), 1348; https://doi.org/10.3390/life12091348
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/9/1348

7. “The Enclosed Intestinal Microbiome: Semiochemical Signals from the Precambrian and Their Disruption by Heavy Metal Pollution”
by David Smith, Miryam Palacios-Pérez and Sohan Jheeta
Life 2022, 12(2), 287; https://doi.org/10.3390/life12020287
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/2/287

8. “Geographic Mosaic of Extensive Genetic Variations in Subterranean Mole Voles Ellobius alaicus as a Consequence of Habitat Fragmentation and Hybridization”
by Valentina Tambovtseva, Valentina Tambovtseva, Sergey Matveevsky and Aleksey Bogdanov
Life 2022, 12(5), 728; https://doi.org/10.3390/life12050728
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/5/728