Bentz et al. explore the origins of recombination suppression between ancestral autosomes leading to independent sex chromosome formation in Asparagus.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag003

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Gatts et al. find a clustered set of proteins with strong signatures of evolutionary rate covariation with plastid proteostasis components, forming a functional module within a plant protein–protein interactome network.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag007

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Hale et al. analysed >500 grass genomes to support a “stable motifs, variable binding sites” model of cis-regulatory evolution that involves turnover of thousands of individual binding sites while preserving TF binding preferences.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf324

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@farleykvdg.bsky.social et al. investigate the importance of translation-enabling RNA editing in ferns, suggesting an adaptive role, in contrast to the prevailing view of RNA editing as a neutral evolutionary process.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf241

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