Coevolution articles within Nature

Featured

  • Article |

    A numerical analysis of mutualistic interactions between species shows that indirect effects from species they do not interact with directly are the biggest source of variation and cause the largest decreases to species fitness.

    • Leandro G. Cosmo
    • , Ana Paula A. Assis
    •  & Paulo R. Guimarães Jr

  • Letter |

    An approach to ecological interactions that integrates coevolutionary dynamics and network structure, showing that selection in mutualisms is shaped not only by the mutualistic partners but by all sorts of indirect effects from other species in the network.

    • Paulo R. Guimarães Jr
    • , Mathias M. Pires
    •  & John N. Thompson

  • Letter |

    The authors provide evidence for the existence of life on Earth in the earliest known sedimentary rocks and suggest that the presence of organic carbon, and low stable-isotope values of graphite from sedimentary rocks in Labrador pushes back the existence of organic life to beyond 3.95 billion years.

    • Takayuki Tashiro
    • , Akizumi Ishida
    •  & Tsuyoshi Komiya

  • Letter |

    Phylogenetic methods were applied to a cross-cultural database of traditional Austronesian societies to test the link between ritual human sacrifice and the origins of social hierarchy—the presence of sacrifice in a society stabilized social stratification and promoted inherited class systems.

    • Joseph Watts
    • , Oliver Sheehan
    •  & Russell D. Gray

  • Letter |

    To test whether there is a relationship between the level of national corruption and the intrinsic honesty of individuals, a behavioural test of the honesty of people from 23 countries was conducted; the authors found that high national scores on an index of rule-breaking are linked with reduced personal honesty.

    • Simon Gächter
    •  & Jonathan F. Schulz

  • Letter |

    Tamisiocaris borealis, an Early Cambrian member of the anomalocarids—giant, predatory marine stem arthropods—probably used its frontal appendage to trap microscopic, planktonic animals.

    • Jakob Vinther
    • , Martin Stein
    •  & David A. T. Harper

  • Letter |

    Viruses are isolated from the SAR11 bacterial clade, the most abundant group of bacteria in the ocean, that were thought to be resistant to viral infection; because of the essential role of SAR11 in carbon cycling these viruses are also an important factor in biogeochemical cycling.

    • Yanlin Zhao
    • , Ben Temperton
    •  & Stephen J. Giovannoni

  • Letter |

    To identify comprehensively factors involved in RNAi and microRNA-mediated gene expression regulation, this study performed a phylogenetic analysis of 86 eukaryotic species; the candidates this approach highlighted were subjected to Bayesian analysis with transcriptional and proteomic interaction data, identifying protein orthologues of already known RNAi silencing factors, as well as other hits involved in splicing, suggesting a connection between the two processes.

    • Yuval Tabach
    • , Allison C. Billi
    •  & Gary Ruvkun

  • News & Views |

    In a remarkable example of convergent evolution, insect species spanning 300 million years of divergence have evolved identical single-amino-acid substitutions that confer resistance to plant cardenolide toxins.

    • Noah K. Whiteman
    •  & Kailen A. Mooney

  • Article |

    Daily oxidation–reduction cycles of peroxiredoxin proteins are shown to be conserved in all domains of life, including Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota.

    • Rachel S. Edgar
    • , Edward W. Green
    •  & Akhilesh B. Reddy

  • News & Views |

    Marine cyanobacteria can shrug off viral assault by inactivating the genes involved in virus attachment. But this strategy has a cost: it may affect cell fitness or even favour infection by other viruses. See Article p.604

    • Frédéric Partensky
    •  & Laurence Garczarek

  • Books & Arts |

    Wolfgang Lucht sees a lesson for humanity's future in the long co-evolution of our planet and its inhabitants.

    • Wolfgang Lucht

  • Letter |

    The Red Queen hypothesis predicts that coevolution should increase the rate of evolution at the molecular level. Here, genome sequencing in an experimental phage–bacteria system is used to show that this is true, but the effect is concentrated on specific loci, and also that coevolution drives greater diversification of phage populations.

    • Steve Paterson
    • , Tom Vogwill
    •  & Michael A. Brockhurst

Browse broader subjects

Browse Coevolution across other nature.com journals