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How cold case DNA technique came to Ottawa from California - and where it's headed next

Family tree enthusiasts are helping police solve decades-old homicides. And the former California district attorney who helped bring the technique to the world with the prosecution of the Golden State Killer back in 2018 says it has the potential to solve many more - as long as it's managed appropriately.

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How forensic genetic genealogy came to Ottawa from California - and where it's headed next

Family tree enthusiasts are helping police solve decades-old homicides. And the former California district attorney who helped bring the technique to the world with the prosecution of the Golden State Killer back in 2018 says it has the potential to solve many more - as long as it's managed appropriately.

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Rare dinosaur trio fetches £12.4m at auction

The skeletons - two Allosaurus and one Stegosaurus - date back approximately 150 million years.

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Evolving Tomorrow Genetic Engineering and the Evolutionary Future of the Anthropocene, by Asher D. Cutter, from Oxford University Press. (Nov 30).

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Dec 20 16:00	Metapopulation heterogeneities in host mobility, productivity, and immunocompetency always increase virulence and infectiousness - Masato Sato, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Modeling the velocity of evolving lineages and predicting dispersal patterns - Paul Bastide, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Homeotic and nonhomeotic patterns in the tetrapod vertebral formula - Rory T. , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Fitness consequences of structural variation inferred from a House Finch pangenome - Bohao Fang, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Extremely rapid, yet noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened-feathered and 3D dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous of China - Scott A. , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Emergent collective behavior evolves more rapidly than individual behavior among acorn ant species - Grant Navid , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Indirect reciprocity under opinion synchronization - Yohsuke Murase, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Half a century of quantitative cultural evolution - Laurel Fogarty, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Eels' individual migratory behavior stems from a complex syndrome involving cognition, behavior, physiology, and life history - Gaia De , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	A complex mechanism translating variation of a simple genetic architecture into alternative life histories - Jukka-Pekka Verta, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Signatures of selection with cultural interference - Laurel Fogarty, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Genetic and linguistic comparisons reveal complex sex-biased transmission of language features - Yakov Pichkar, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Forward and backward modeling of cultural evolutionary processes - Joe Y. , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Genes, culture, and scientific racism - Kevin N. , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Hidden in plain sight: (Re)definition of a key lepidopteran color patterning gene - Nicholas W. , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Social learning with complex contagion - Hiroaki Chiba-, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Wet-dry cycles cause nucleic acid monomers to polymerize into long chains - Xiaowei Song, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Short-sighted evolution of virulence for invasive gut microbes: From hypothesis to tests - Pauline D. , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization - Thomas A. , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Conditional cooperation with longer memory - Nikoleta E. , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Density amplifiers of cooperation for spatial games - Jakub Svoboda, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	The social leverage effect: Institutions transform weak reputation effects into strong incentives for cooperation - Julien Lie-, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Reply to da Silva: Helping behavior can emerge without its prior adaptive evolution - Ella Rees-, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Climbing the scala energiae: The cost of growing animals great and small - Eörs Szathmárya, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Eusocial workers must evolve before maternal control - Jack da Silvaa, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Photosynthetic demands on translational machinery drive retention of redundant tRNA metabolism in plant organelles - Rachael A. , et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Accelerated cell-type-specific regulatory evolution of the human brain - Dennis Joshy, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Order of amino acid recruitment into the genetic code resolved by last universal common ancestor's protein domains - Sawsan Wehbi, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	Proteomic analysis of the sponge Aggregation Factor implicates an ancient toolkit for allorecognition and adhesion in animals - Fabian Ruperti, et al. (PNAS)
Dec 19 14:19	The impact of treatment strategies on the epidemiological dynamics of plasmid-conferred antibiotic resistance - Malte Muetter, et al. (PNAS)
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Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting abstract submissions for our symposium, "Novel Insights
on Genome Architecture Evolution" (Symposium #8)

at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology &
Evolution, July 20-24 in Beijing China.

Details are below:

SMBE 2025 - Annual Meeting of the Society
for Molecular Biology & Evolution, 2025
smbe2025.scimeeting.cn
<https://smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/index/25070_2131033>

Novel Insights on Genome Architecture Evolution

Organizers:
Carol Eunmi LEE, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Sean Chun-Chang CHEN, Taipei Medical University

Invited Speaker:
Chris Jiggins, University of Cambridge

The rapid expansion of genomic data is revolutionizing our ability to make
unprecedented discoveries regarding patterns, mechanisms, and consequences
of genome architecture evolution. With comprehensive genome sequencing
across diverse taxa, we can now address fundamental questions on how
large-scale structural variation in genomes arise and how they might
impact adaptive potential and speciation. For instance, we are only
beginning to uncover how chromosomal rearrangements, such as fusions,
fissions, and inversions, contribute to adaptation and speciation. In
addition, we are gaining new insights into how allopolyploid
hybridization in plants results in novel genome architectures and
potentially leads to highly invasive species. Moreover, we can now
explore how genome architecture evolution leads to morphological and
functional innovations, such as the evolution of animal body plans. Thus,
this symposium will assemble researchers who investigate the dynamics of
genome architecture evolution in multicellular organisms. We especially
welcome talks that focus on large scale genomic comparisons that delve
into mechanisms underlying genome structural variation and evolution and
impacts of that variation on responses to selection or the evolution of
novelty. Conceptual and theoretical talks that provide novel perspectives
are also welcome. As such, this symposium aims to highlight the importance
of genome architecture in shaping evolutionary trajectories and adaptive
potential.

Carol Eunmi LEE <carollee@wisc.edu>

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