Molecular Ecology

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Out of the Qinghai‐Tibet plateau: Genomic biogeography of the alpine monospecific genus Megadenia (Biscutelleae, Brassicaceae)	169
Plant–pollinator network architecture does not impact intraspecific microbiome variability	165
Patterns of genetic differentiation imply distinct phylogeographic history of the mosquito species Anopheles messeae and Anopheles daciae in Eurasia	143
Association between parasite microbiomes and caste development and colony structure in a social trematode	110
Population dynamics in newts of the Carpathian Mountains	104
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Plumbing the depths with environmental DNA (eDNA): Metabarcoding reveals biodiversity zonation at 45–60 m on mesophotic coral reefs	79
Environmental transcriptomics under heat stress: Can environmental RNA reveal changes in gene expression of aquatic organisms?	72
On the comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: Telomere length co‐evolves with body mass, lifespan and cancer risk	71
Suboptimal environmental conditions prolong phage epidemics in bacterial populations	64
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Ecological stoichiometry and fungal community turnover reveal variation among mycorrhizal partners in their responses to warming and drought	53
Genome‐phenotype‐environment associations identify signatures of selection in a panmictic population of threespine stickleback	53
Evolutionary and ecological drivers of local adaptation and speciation in a North American avian species complex	52
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Associations between MHC class II variation and phenotypic traits in a free‐living sheep population	51
Seasonal dynamics of marine protist communities in tidally mixed coastal waters	51
Community assembly and metaphylogeography of soil biodiversity: Insights from haplotype‐level communityDNAmetabarcoding within an oceanic island	51
Population genetics as a tool to elucidate pathogen reservoirs: Lessons fromPseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of White‐Nose disease in bats	50
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What can cold‐induced transcriptomes of Arctic Brassicaceae tell us about the evolution of cold tolerance?	49
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Genomic diversity and differentiation between island and mainland populations of white‐tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla)	47
Population genomic evidence of selection on structural variants in a natural hybrid zone	46
Comparative Genomics Uncovers Molecular Adaptations for Cetacean Deep‐Sea Diving	44

Population Genomics Reveals Local Adaptation Related to Temperature Variation in Two Stream Frog Species: Implications for Vulnerability to Climate Warming	44
Signals of differential introgression in the genome of natural hybrids of Caribbean anoles	43
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Genomic evidence of an ancient inland temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest of North America	41
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Rapid turnover and evolution of sex‐determining regions in Sebastes rockfishes	40
Insights into the potential for mutualistic and harmful host–microbe interactions affecting brown alga freshwater acclimation	39
Evolutionary roles of polyploidization‐derived structural variations in the phenotypic diversification of Panax species	39
Introgression from local cultivars is a driver of agricultural adaptation in Argentinian weedy rice	38
How structural variants shape avian phenotypes: Lessons from model systems	37
The prevalence of copy number increase at multiallelic copy number variants associated with cave colonization	37
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Distinct early life stage gene expression effects of hybridization among European and North American farmed and wild Atlantic salmon populations	33
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Adaptive and nonadaptive causes of heterogeneity in genetic differentiation across the Mimulus guttatus genome	32
Genomic consequences of colonisation, migration and genetic drift in barn owl insular populations of the eastern Mediterranean	32
A tale of two tissues: Probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall	32
Understanding the role of temperature in seasonal timing: Effects on behavioural, physiological and molecular phenotypes	31
DNA metabarcoding reveals impact of local recruitment, dispersal, and hydroperiod on assembly of a zooplankton metacommunity	31
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Comparative analysis of gut microbiome of mangrove brachyuran crabs revealed patterns of phylosymbiosis and codiversification	30
Counter‐gradient variation in gene expression between fish populations facilitates colonization of low‐dissolved oxygen environments	30
Experimental evidence that root‐associated fungi improve plant growth at high altitude	30
Temperature‐dependent effects of house fly proto‐Y chromosomes on gene expression could be responsible for fitness differences that maintain polygenic sex determination	30
Comparative linkage mapping uncovers recombination suppression across massive chromosomal inversions associated with local adaptation in Atlantic silversides	29
Evidence of backcross inviability and mitochondrial DNA paternal leakage in sea turtle hybrids	29
Late Pleistocene landscape changes and habitat specialization as promoters of population genomic divergence in Amazonian floodplain birds	29
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Legacies of invertebrate exclusion and tree secondary metabolites control fungal communities in dead wood	29
Long‐term spatiotemporal genetic structure of an accidental parasitoid introduction, and local changes in prevalence of its associatedWolbachiasymbiont	29
Long‐read sequencing in ecology and evolution: Understanding how complex genetic and epigenetic variants shape biodiversity	29
Population subdivision promoted by a sea‐level‐change‐driven bottleneck: A glimpse from the evolutionary history of the mangrove plant Aegiceras corniculatum	29
Bacterial‐fungal interactions and their impact on microbial pathogenesis	29
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Genomic and functional evidence reveals convergent evolution in fishes on the Tibetan Plateau	28
Speciation without gene‐flow in hybridizing deer	28
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Low but significant evolutionary potential for growth, phenology and reproduction traits in European beech	28
Telomere length positively correlates with pace‐of‐life in a sex‐ and cohort‐specific way and elongates with age in a wild mammal	28
Diversification along a benthic to pelagic gradient contributes to fish diversity in the world's largest lake (Lake Baikal, Russia)	28
Adaptive cellular evolution or cellular system drift in hares	27
The evolutionary pathways for local adaptation in mountain hares	27
Genomic data and common garden experiments reveal climate‐driven selection on ecophysiological traits in two Mediterranean oaks	27
The dynamic response to hypo‐osmotic stress reveals distinct stages of freshwater acclimation by a euryhaline diatom	27
Ecological transcriptomics reveals stress response pathways of a ground‐herb species in a waterlogging gradient of Amazonian riparian forests	27
Environmental microbes promote phenotypic plasticity in reproduction and sleep behaviour	27
Community dynamics of soil‐borne fungal communities along elevation gradients in neotropical and palaeotropical forests	26
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Relationships between phenotypic plasticity and epigenetic variation in two Caribbean Acropora corals	26

Genetic features of bivalve transmissible neoplasia in blue mussels from the Kola Bay (Barents Sea) suggest a recent trans‐Arctic migration of the cancer lineages	26
Contrasting laboratory and field outcomes of bat–moth interactions	26
Orchid–mycorrhizal fungi interactions reveal a duality in their network structure in two European regions differing in climate	26
Assessing the genetic composition of cotton‐top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) before sweeping anthropogenic impact	26
On the use of genome‐wide data to model and date the time of anthropogenic hybridisation: An example from the Scottish wildcat	25
Genomic, morphological and physiological data support fast ecotypic differentiation and incipient speciation in an alpine diving beetle	25
Alternative developmental and transcriptomic responses to host plant water limitation in a butterfly metapopulation	25
Cryptic diversity within thePoecilochirus carabimite species complex phoretic onNicrophorusburying beetles: Phylogeny, biogeography, and host specificity	25
Comparative genome sequencing reveals insights into the dynamics of Wolbachia in native and invasive cherry fruit flies	25
The ephemeral microbiota: Ecological context and environmental variability drive the body surface microbiota composition of Magellanic penguins across subantarctic breeding colonies	25
Natural selection drives genome‐wide evolution via chance genetic associations	25
Host range of a parasitoid wasp is linked to host susceptibility to its mutualistic viral symbiont	25
Genetic diversity and population structure in Vitis species illustrate phylogeographic patterns in eastern North America	25
Direct and indirect genetic effects of a social supergene	25
Microbial population genomes from the Amazon River reveal possible modulation of the organic matter degradation process in tropical freshwaters	25
The population genomics of repeated freshwater colonizations by Gulf pipefish	24
Stable coexistence or competitive exclusion? Fern endophytes demonstrate rapid turnover favouring a dominant fungus	24
Genomic profiling of climate adaptation in Aedes aegypti along an altitudinal gradient in Nepal indicates nongradual expansion of the disease vector	24
Hybrid enrichment of adaptive variation revealed by genotype–environment associations in montane sedges	24
Species pool, local assembly processes: Disentangling the mechanisms determining bacterial α‐ and β‐diversity during forest secondary succession	24
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Molecular assessment of dietary niche partitioning in an endemic island radiation of tropical mammals	24
Genetic connectivity of two marine gastropods in the Mediterranean Sea: seascape genetics reveals species‐specific oceanographic drivers of gene flow	24
Importance of the ECM–receptor interaction for adaptive response to hypoxia based on integrated transcription and translation analysis	24
Symbiosis modulates gene expression of symbionts, but not coral hosts, under thermal challenge	24
Differential gene expression and mitonuclear incompatibilities in fast‐ and slow‐developing interpopulation Tigriopus californicus hybrids	24
Amazonian birds in more dynamic habitats have less population genetic structure and higher gene flow	24
Grassland ecosystem type drives AM fungal diversity and functional guild distribution in North American grasslands	23
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A new subfamily of ionotropic glutamate receptors unique to the echinoderms with putative sensory role	23
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The short‐term, genome‐wide effects of indirect selection deserve study: A response to Charlesworth and Jensen (2022)	23
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Extremes of snow and temperature affect patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation in the alpine butterfly Parnassius smintheus	23
Chromosome‐level genome assembly for takin (Budorcas taxicolor) provides insights into its taxonomic status and genetic diversity	23
Transmissible cancer and longitudinal telomere dynamics in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)	23
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The impacts of positive selection on genomic variation in Drosophila serrata: Insights from a deep learning approach	23
Climate‐related naturally occurring epimutation and their roles in plant adaptation in A. thaliana	22
Genetic and telomeric variability: Insights from a tropical avian hybrid zone	22
Resistance evolution, from genetic mechanism to ecological context	22
Multiple paths toward repeated phenotypic evolution in the spiny‐leg adaptive radiation (Tetragnatha; Hawai'i)	22
A sex chromosome polymorphism maintains divergent plumage phenotypes between extensively hybridizing yellowhammers (Emberiza citrinella) and pine buntings (E. leucocephalos)	22
Chromosome‐level genome assembly of a deep‐sea Venus flytrap sea anemone sheds light upon adaptations to an extremely oligotrophic environment	22
Genome‐wide SNP assessment of contemporary European red deer genetic structure highlights the distinction of peripheral populations and the main admixture zones in Europe	22
A female‐biased gene expression signature of dominance in cooperatively breeding meerkats	22
A Latitudinal Gradient of Reference Genomes	22
Gravitropic Gene Expression Divergence Associated With Adaptation to Contrasting Environments in an Australian Wildflower	22
Comparative phylogeography reveals the demographic patterns of neotropical ancient mountain species	21
The transcriptional state and chromatin landscape of cichlid jaw shape variation across species and environments	21
Mitonuclear discordance results from incomplete lineage sorting, with no detectable evidence for gene flow, in a rapid radiation of Todiramphus kingfishers	21
Genomic analysis of a parasite invasion: Colonization of the Americas by the blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni	21
Stony coral tissue loss disease intervention with amoxicillin leads to a reversal of disease‐modulated gene expression pathways	21
Historical population declines prompted significant genomic erosion in the northern and southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)	21
Genomic data support multiple introductions and explosive demographic expansions in a highly invasive aquatic insect	21
Plant‐bacteria associations are phylogenetically structured in the phyllosphere	21
Skin colour: A window into human phenotypic evolution and environmental adaptation	21
The population genetics of urban and rural amphibians in North America	20
Experimental sexual selection reveals rapid evolutionary divergence in sex‐specific transcriptomes and their interactions following mating	20
Molecular insights into the dynamics of species invasion by hybridisation in Tasmanian eucalypts	20
Gastrointestinal symbiont diversity in wild gorilla: A comparison of bacterial and strongylid communities across multiple localities	20
Host phylogeny and functional traits differentiate gut microbiomes in a diverse natural community of small mammals	20
Drivers of change and stability in the gut microbiota of an omnivorous avian migrant exposed to artificial food supplementation	20
Historical land use patterns provide insight into contemporary insect diversity loss	20
Genomic divergence between two sister Medicago species triggered by the quaternary climatic oscillations on the Qinghai–Tibet plateau and northern China	20
Dispersal in a house sparrow metapopulation: An integrative case study of genetic assignment calibrated with ecological data and pedigree information	20
Annual and perennial Medicago show signatures of parallel adaptation to climate and soil in highly conserved genes	20
Novel genome sequence of Chinese cavefish (Triplophysa rosa) reveals pervasive relaxation of natural selection in cavefish genomes	20
Baculoviruses hijack the visual perception of their caterpillar hosts to induce climbing behaviour thus promoting virus dispersal	19
Geography and Environment Shape Spatial Genetic Variation and Predict Climate Maladaptation Across Isolated and Disjunct Populations of Pinus muricata	19
Effect of urbanization and parasitism on the gut microbiota of Darwin's finch nestlings	19
Integrated organismal responses induced by projected levels of CO2 and temperature exposures in the early life stages of lake sturgeon	19
Genomics reveals a genetically isolated population of the Pacific white‐sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) distributed in the Sea of Japan	19
City divided: Unveiling family ties and genetic structuring of coyotes in Seattle	19
Transcriptomic response of Cinachyrella cf. cavernosa sponges to spatial competition	19
Grassland Afforestation Drives Biotic Homogenisation of Soil Microbial Communities at a Regional Scale	19
Alternative splicing: An overlooked mechanism contributing to local adaptation?	19
First insight into oral microbiome diversity in Papua New Guineans reveals a specific regional signature	19
Riverscape community genomics: A comparative analytical approach to identify common drivers of spatial structure	19
Diving into the diversity of colour patterns in reef fishes	19

The association between female reproductive performance and leukocyte telomere length in wild Soay sheep	19
Circumpolar and Regional Seascape Drivers of Genomic Variation in a Southern Ocean Octopus	19
Australian soil microbiome: A first sightseeing regional prediction driven by cycles of soil temperature and pedogenic variations	19
The genomic basis of army ant chemosensory adaptations	19
The biogeographic and evolutionary processes shaping population divergence in Laupala	18
Transcriptional chronology reveals conserved genes involved in pennate diatom sexual reproduction	18
Contrasting Genomic Diversity and Inbreeding Levels Among Two Closely Related Falcon Species With Overlapping Geographic Distributions	18
Host‐pathogen‐environment interactions predict survival outcomes of adult sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) released from fisheries	18
Isolation and reconnection: Demographic history and multiple contact zones of the green odorous frog (Odorrana margaretae) around the Sichuan Basin	18
Within‐individual repeatability in telomere length: A meta‐analysis in nonmammalian vertebrates	18
Comparative Population Genomics Reveal the Determinants of Genome Erosion in Two Sympatric Neotropical Falcons	18
The structure of bacteria–fungi bipartite networks along elevational gradients in contrasting climates	18
Sunspot activity influences tree growth: Molecular evidence and ecological implications	18
Telomere dynamics in relation to experimentally increased locomotion costs and fitness in great tits	18
Stomach Microbiome Simplification of a Coral Reef Fish at Its Novel Cold‐Range Edge Under Climate Change	18
Evolution of dosage compensation does not depend on genomic background	17
Analysing indoor mycobiomes through a large‐scale citizen science study in Norway	17
Climate adaptation and vulnerability of foundation species in a global change hotspot	17
Sex‐linked genetic diversity and differentiation in a globally distributed avian species complex	17
Environment and shipping drive environmental DNA beta‐diversity among commercial ports	17
Decoding plant‐induced transcriptomic variability and consistency in two related polyphagous mites differing in host ranges	17
Population structure in a continuously distributed coastal marine species, the harbor porpoise, based on microhaplotypes derived from poor‐quality samples	17
Traits and tradeoffs among non‐native ectomycorrhizal fungal symbionts affect pine seedling establishment in a Hawaiian coinvasion landscape	17
Brazilian marine phylogeography: A literature synthesis and analysis of barriers	17
Consistent predictors of microbial community composition across spatial scales in grasslands reveal low context‐dependency	17
Selection in space and time: Individual tree growth is adapted to tropical forest gap dynamics	17
The impact of indoor residual spraying on Plasmodium falciparum microsatellite variation in an area of high seasonal malaria transmission in Ghana, West Africa	17
Founder effects shape linkage disequilibrium and genomic diversity of a partially clonal invader	17
Genomic insights into hybrid zone formation: The role of climate, landscape, and demography in the emergence of a novel hybrid lineage	17
Landscape‐scale population connectivity in two parasitoid species associated with the spruce budworm: Testing the birdfeeder effect using genetic data	17
The opposed forces of differentiation and admixture across glacial cycles in the butterfly Aglais urticae	17
Opportunities and challenges for high‐quality biodiversity tissue archives in the age of long‐read sequencing	17
Rapid evolution of novel biotic interactions in the UK Brown Argus butterfly uses genomic variation from across its geographical range	17
Functional differentiation and complementation of alkaline phosphatases and choreography of DOP scavenging in a marine diatom	17
Transposable elements mark a repeat‐rich region associated with migratory phenotypes of willow warblers (Phylloscopus trochilus)	16
Both Structural Variant and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Load Impact Lifetime Fitness in a Threatened Bird Species	16
Slow and steady wins the race: Spatial and stochastic processes and the failure of suppression gene drives	16
Hypoxia as a physiological cue and pathological stress for coral larvae	16
Spatial variation in genomic signatures of local adaptation during the cane toad invasion of Australia	16
Community‐wide correlations between species richness, abundance and population genomic diversity in a freshwater biodiversity hotspot	16
Maternally derived avian corticosterone affects offspring genome‐wide DNA methylation in a passerine species	16
Panzootic chytrid fungus exploits diverse amphibian host environments through plastic infection strategies	16
Genetic mechanisms and biological processes underlying host response to ophidiomycosis (snake fungal disease) inferred from tissue‐specific transcriptome analyses	16
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Ancient Hybridisation Fuelled Diversification in Acropora Corals	16
Mating system variation and gene expression in the male reproductive tract of Peromyscus mice	16
Pleistocene origins, western ghost lineages, and the emerging phylogeographic history of the red wolf and coyote	16
Vertebrate genomics and adaptation – Status and prospects in Africa	16
Parentage analysis across age cohorts reveals sex differences in reproductive skew in a group‐living cichlid fish,Neolamprologus multifasciatus	16
The role of neutral and adaptive genomic variation in population diversification and speciation in two ground squirrel species of conservation concern	16
Chromosomal inversions harbour excess mutational load in the coral, Acropora kenti, on the Great Barrier Reef	16
The effect of divergent and parallel selection on the genomic landscape of divergence	16
Genomic divergence and introgression between cryptic species of a widespread North American songbird	16
Phenotypic and genomic diversification with isolation by environment along elevational gradients in a neotropical treefrog	16
Why Is It Too Cold? Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Cold‐Water Pollution Effects on Recruitment of an Imperiled Warmwater Fish	16
Organellar DNA continues to provide a rich source of information in the genomics era	16
Implementing landscape genetics in molecular epidemiology to determine drivers of vector‐borne disease: A malaria case study	16
More complex than you think: Taxonomic and temporal patterns of plant–pollinator networks of caraway (Carum carvi L.)	16
Connecting tree‐ring phenotypes, genetic associations and transcriptomics to decipher the genomic architecture of drought adaptation in a widespread conifer	16
Gene expression underlying parenting and being parented shows limited plasticity in response to different ambient temperatures	16
Runs of homozygosity reveal contrasting histories of inbreeding across global lineages of the edible porcini mushroom, Boletus edulis	16
The worldwide invasion history of a pest ambrosia beetle inferred using population genomics	16
Demographic modelling helps track the rapid and recent divergence of a conifer species pair from Central Mexico	16
An aphid symbiont confers protection against a specialized RNA virus, another increases vulnerability to the same pathogen	16
Long‐wavelength‐sensitive (lws) opsin gene expression, foraging and visual communication in coral reef fishes	16
Does getting defensive get you anywhere?—Seasonal balancing selection, temperature, and parasitoids shape real‐world, protective endosymbiont dynamics in the pea aphid	16
Secondary contact erodes Pleistocene diversification in a wide‐ranging freshwater mussel (Quadrula)	16
Museomics Sheds Light on Evolutionary Diversity in a Critically Endangered Cockatoo Species From Wallacea	16
A genomic assessment of the marine‐speciation paradox within the toothed whale superfamily Delphinoidea	15
Positive selection in gamete interaction proteins in Carnivora	15
Multiple introductions, polyploidy and mixed reproductive strategies are linked to genetic diversity and structure in the most widespread invasive plant across Southern Ocean archipelagos	15
Rickettsial pathogens drive microbiota assembly in Hyalomma marginatum and Rhipicephalus bursa ticks	15
Genomics‐informed conservation units reveal spatial variation in climate vulnerability in a migratory bird	15
Molecular signatures of alternative reproductive strategies in a facultatively social hover wasp	15
Effects of hunting on mating, relatedness, and genetic diversity in a puma population	15
Symbiodiniaceae diversity varies by host and environment across thermally distinct reefs	15
Circumpolar phylogeography and demographic history of beluga whales reflect past climatic fluctuations	15
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Molecular Adjustment to a Social Niche: Brain Transcriptomes Reveal Divergent Influence of Social Environment on the Two Queen Morphs of the Ant Temnothorax rugatulus	15
Hybridization and gene expression: Beyond differentially expressed genes	15
Quantifying adaptive evolution and the effects of natural selection across the Norway spruce genome	15
Early‐life immune expression profiles predict later‐life health and fitness in a wild rodent	15
Patterns of genetic variation and local adaptation of a native herbivore to a lethal invasive plant	15
Balanced polymorphism fuels rapid selection in an invasive crab despite high gene flow and low genetic diversity	15
Facilitated introgression from domestic goat into Alpine ibex at immune loci	15
Phylogeography of the wide‐host range panglobal plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi	15
Population Genomics of Adaptive Radiations: Exceptionally High Levels of Genetic Diversity and Recombination in an Endemic Spider From the Canary Islands	15
Metabolic plasticity of mixotrophic algae is key for their persistence in browning environments	15
From high masked to high realized genetic load in inbred Scandinavian wolves	15
A glimpse at an early stage of microbe domestication revealed in the variable genome of Torulaspora delbrueckii, an emergent industrial yeast	15
Large‐scale DNA barcoding of the subfamily Culterinae (Cypriniformes: Xenocyprididae) in East Asia unveils a geographical scale effect, taxonomic warnings and cryptic diversity	15
Intrinsic variation in the vertically transmitted core virome of the mosquito Aedes aegypti	15
Testing concordance and conflict in spatial replication of landscape genetics inferences	15
Whole‐genome resequencing confirms reproductive isolation between sympatric demes of brown trout (Salmo trutta) detected with allozymes	15
Coral larvae suppress heat stress response during the onset of symbiosis decreasing their odds of survival	15