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Trace fossils from the end Ordovician of South Africa suggest a low-diversity meiofaunal benthic community fed by episodic concentrations of phytoplankton (marine snow) 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This study reconstructs the gene regulatory networks that define cell types in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis, providing a valuable resource for comparative regulatory genomics and the evolution of new cell types 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lovely Xmas gift 🎄—our paper is out today in @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...! Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible, especially @aelek.bsky.social and @arnausebe.bsky.social

Population genetics analysis in a phylogenetic framework shows convergent evolution in the genomes of five brood-parasitic species, including selection on genes involved in spermatogenesis, sperm function and nervous system development 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bee assemblage data from 681 crop fields across 3 continents shows that local pesticide hazards and decreasing adjacent semi-natural habitats negatively affected wild bee abundance and species richness in crop fields, while pesticides reduce functional diversity🧪🐝 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bee assemblage data from 681 crop fields across 3 continents shows that local pesticide hazards and decreasing adjacent semi-natural habitats negatively affected wild bee abundance and species richness in crop fields, while pesticides reduce functional diversity🧪🐝 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Ellen Welti 👇 "A pinch of salt works for megaherbivores" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free-to-read: rdcu.be/eUJ9e

Combining high-resolution mapping of foliar- and herbivore- faecal sodium concentrations across Africa, the authors show that plant-derived sodium availability constrains megaherbivore densities at a continental scale 🧪🐘🦏🦒 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Comment article: Matthew Fagan, Naomi Schwartz and Ruth DeFries offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets to ensure responsible use of remote-sensing datasets in ecology and environmental science. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Comment article: Matthew Fagan, Naomi Schwartz and Ruth DeFries offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets to ensure responsible use of remote-sensing datasets in ecology and environmental science. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our December issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on 🧪 🦏 rhinocerotid dispersal in the mid-Cenozoic 🐟 biodiversity responses to freshwater stressors 🦋 evolution of butterfly eyespots Cover shows a Korean seahorse, from Meyer et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our December issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on 🧪 🦏 rhinocerotid dispersal in the mid-Cenozoic 🐟 biodiversity responses to freshwater stressors 🦋 evolution of butterfly eyespots Cover shows a Korean seahorse, from Meyer et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global analysis shows that atmospheric dryness explains geographical patterns of tree canopy height and is projected to become more important in the coming decades: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Much has been speculated on the impact of industrial deep-sea mining on marine ecosystems. This study led by @evastewart.bsky.social provides some direct empirical evidence. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fine-grained spatial analysis of natural forests sheds light on spatial patterns, environmental predictors and future potential of tree species diversity diversity across China. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What are the mechanisms behind terrestrial arthropod declines? @bmwildermuth.bsky.social and colleagues have some answers www.nature.com/articles/s41... @bexplo.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social @jena-experiment.bsky.social

New Worldview 👇 "Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes Free to read: rdcu.be/eR1J2

Many ecological studies assume that space-for-time substitutions can be proxies for missing time series. Here the authors show congruence between the two in the direction but not the magnitude of plant and arthropod community responses to land-use intensification 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Worldview 👇 "Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes Free to read: rdcu.be/eR1J2

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...

🚨1 week left until Abstract submission closes for the upcoming Nature conference "Corals, Coasts and One Health" 🪸 natureconferences.streamgo.live/corals-coast... Join editors from @natecoevo.nature.com , @natclimate.nature.com , @natrevearthenviron.nature.com & @commsbio.nature.com 14–16 Feb 2026

Brings back happy memories of ISBE 2024 where the conversation about this paper began.. great to see it out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Thanks to co-authors and to the organisers of that brilliant conference 🙏🏽. @bbmwong.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social, Suzanne Alonzo🫶, Sasha Dall, “Dr Cunningham”

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... Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv

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...

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?

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...

🚨1 week left until Abstract submission closes for the upcoming Nature conference "Corals, Coasts and One Health" 🪸 natureconferences.streamgo.live/corals-coast... Join editors from @natecoevo.nature.com , @natclimate.nature.com , @natrevearthenviron.nature.com & @commsbio.nature.com 14–16 Feb 2026

Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read the linked News & Views commentary by Manolo Mischler & Olivier Tenaillon 👇 Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eQ5HU

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...

New Species Spotlight 👇 César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK

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...

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...

New Species Spotlight 👇 César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK

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...

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 Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU

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 Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU

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...

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇 "Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇 "Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

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.

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🚨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 🪸 🐟

📖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 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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.

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.

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.

Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore chemical with fitness consequences for the plant in both environments 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...