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  1. Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology
    Columbia University

    E3B Columbia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Applications received by Oct 15 will receive full consideration.

    See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/columbia-unive

    #evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Sci...
    jobrxiv.org/job/columbia-unive

  2. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
    #MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio0910260

  3. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
    #MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio0910260

  4. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
    #MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio0910260

  5. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
    #MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio0910260

  6. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
    #MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio0910260

  7. Local evolutionary adaptation occurs when populations of a single species develop heritable, genetic traits that are finely tuned to the highly specific conditions of their immediate environment.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #Ecology #ConservationBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/ebio0910260

  8. Multicellular cyanobacteria possess specialized cell-to-cell communication structures regulated by calcium signals, fundamentally mirroring the intercellular communication systems found in higher eukaryotic organisms.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #PhototrophicMicrobiology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #StructuralBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio0831260

  9. When an animal moves, its visual system adjusts its neuronal activity to process the changing environmental input, but this adjustment operates on the same mathematical evolutionary principles across both mice and primates despite differing sensory outputs.
    #Neurobiology #ComputationalNeuroscience #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ns08312601.

  10. Evolutionary genome topology is a new comparative framework that projects the structural evolution of animal chromosomes onto a single map. It reveals that animal genomes do not change at random, but rather evolve along distinct, irreversible pathways over millions of years.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #Genomics #MolecularGenetics #Zoology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio0820260

  11. Bacteriophages are the most abundant and diverse viral entities on Earth, functioning as microscopic apex predators that exist exclusively to infect, replicate within, and ultimately lyse bacterial populations.
    #WhatIs #Virology #Microbiology #EvolutionaryBiology #MolecularBiology #Biophysics #Biogeochemistry #ClinicalImmunology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/07/wi07312601.

  12. The rate-mismatch hypothesis posits that global mass extinctions occur when the pace of environmental change outstrips the rate at which biological life can undergo evolutionary adaptation. It provides a mathematical model linking Earth's historic extinction events to the critical disparities between environmental shifts and species' adaptive capabilities.
    #Paleobiology #Paleoclimatology #Geophysics #AppliedMathematics #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/06/pal06242601

  13. Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) are the fossilized genetic remnants of ancient infectious viruses that successfully invaded the mammalian germline tens of millions of years ago. Comprising roughly five to eight percent of the human genome, these elements exist as a latent virome that provides critical evolutionary functions while posing significant pathological risks if reactivated.
    #WhatIs #EvolutionaryBiology #MolecularGenetics #Virology #Epigenetics #Oncology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/06/wi06242601.

  14. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal networks are vast underground systems that form symbiotic relationships with the majority of Earth's plant species, exchanging water and nutrients for plant-fixed carbon. A recent global mapping effort revealed these living infrastructures possess a total length of approximately 110 quadrillion kilometers and a mass of roughly 300 megatons of carbon.
    #Mycology #SoilEcology #Biogeochemistry #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/06/bio06142602