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🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
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🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC

Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptation to optimizing biocontrol of pest species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and tackling global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptat...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opposition to both population growth and hunting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Happy to share that my PhD project is finally published!🪱✨
Selfish genes are found across the tree of life. They can disrupt inheritance patterns and at the same time act as units for molecular innovation. Here we tried to answer one big question: how do selfish genes emerge in the first place?
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Combining genome-scale metabolic modelling with in vitro and in planta experiments, the authors show that cross-feeding metabolites and substrate utilization synergistically determine microbial community resistance to pathogen invasion 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Substrate utilization and cross-feeding synergistically determine microbiome resistance to pathogen invasion - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Combining genome-scale metabolic modelling with in vitro and in planta experiments, the authors show that cross-feeding metabolites and substrate utilization synergistically determine microbial commun...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis 🧪
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Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In Caenorhabditis tropicalis, three toxin–antidote elements arose via gene duplication from the essential tRNA-synthetase subunit FARS-3. The ancestral antidote probably acquired affinity for FARS-3, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Read the linked News & Views commentary by Manolo Mischler & Olivier Tenaillon 👇

Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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November 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after environmental turnover (antagonistic pleiotropy)🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy results in seemingly neutral molecular evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after envir...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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New Species Spotlight 👇

César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Alerce or lawal (Fitzroya cupressoides) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
César Marín feels privileged to work among giants.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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New Comment:

A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New Comment:

A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New Species Spotlight 👇

César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Alerce or lawal (Fitzroya cupressoides) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
César Marín feels privileged to work among giants.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Seahorses have a unique sex role reversal with male pregnancy involving a brood pouch, an evolutionarily novel organ. This study uses single-cell genomics and in vivo experiments to reveal the cellular basis and molecular mechanism of pouch development and diversity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of seahorse male pregnancy - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Seahorses have a unique sex role reversal with male pregnancy involving the brood pouch, an evolutionarily novel organ. This study uses single-cell genomics and in vivo experiments to reveal the cellu...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research

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Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Long-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research

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Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Long-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Seahorses have a unique sex role reversal with male pregnancy involving a brood pouch, an evolutionarily novel organ. This study uses single-cell genomics and in vivo experiments to reveal the cellular basis and molecular mechanism of pouch development and diversity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of seahorse male pregnancy - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Seahorses have a unique sex role reversal with male pregnancy involving the brood pouch, an evolutionarily novel organ. This study uses single-cell genomics and in vivo experiments to reveal the cellu...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇

"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇

"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This global meta-analysis of freshwater stressor–response relationships reveals that the biodiversity loss of five riverine organism groups reflects elevated salinity, oxygen depletion and fine sediment accumulation 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta-analysis-derived estimates of stressor–response associations for riverine organism groups - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This global meta-analysis of freshwater stressor–response relationships reveals that the biodiversity loss of five riverine organism groups reflects elevated salinity, oxygen depletion and fine sedime...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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New Comment 👇

Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pienkowski et al. argue that too little attention has been paid to ensure that conservation initiatives persist, and that this blind spot threatens progress towards global environmental goals.
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of conservation commitments is a blind ...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Corals, Coasts and One Health is focused on addressing the urgent challenges facing coral reefs and connected coastal ecosystems. The conference program will bridge scales and disciplines, linking mic...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🚨One month left for early bird registration for the upcoming Nature Conference "Corals, Coasts and One Health" 🚨 natureconferences.streamgo.live/corals-coast...

Join leading researchers from around the world together with Nature Portfolio editors, 14-16th Feb 2026 🪸 🐟
Corals, Coasts and One Health
Corals, Coasts and One Health is focused on addressing the urgent challenges facing coral reefs and connected coastal ecosystems. The conference program will bridge scales and disciplines, linking mic...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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📖Latest from the lab:
Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶‍♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com

Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n

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Evolutionary characterization of antiviral SAMD9/9L across kingdoms supports ancient convergence and lineage-specific adaptations - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A search for analogues of the human SAMD9/9L antiviral genes identifies convergent evolution of this gene family in the bacterial and animal kingdoms, with species-specific and recent genomic signatur...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
New Comment 👇

Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pienkowski et al. argue that too little attention has been paid to ensure that conservation initiatives persist, and that this blind spot threatens progress towards global environmental goals.
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of conservation commitments is a blind ...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Spotlight on our AI policies: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest editorial clarifies some of our editorial policies on the use of generative AI, and offers some guidance for authors and reviewers.
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM