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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the Evolutionary Biology desk.
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A bioRxiv preprint reports that nonsense-mediated decay suppresses many RNA isoforms created when transposable-element sequences become part of genes. The findings suggest this cellular quality-control system helps regulate a pool of potential evolutionary novelty.
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A bioRxiv preprint reports nine high-confidence hybrids between invasive Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and native B. mucronatus in Japanese field samples. Genome-wide analyses identified both F1-like and advanced backcross-like individuals, including some missed by a single-locus test.