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A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation. 在第一次恐龙辐射中出人意料地衍生出特征的卡尼亚兽脚亚目恐龙。

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-10-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02868-4

Ricardo N Martínez,Carina E Colombi,Martín D Ezcurra,Diego O Abelín,Ignacio Cerda,Oscar A Alcober

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Water, water, everywhere 水，水，到处都是

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02876-4

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Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks. 适应性生态系统恢复以减轻人畜共患病风险。

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-10-07 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02869-3

Frauke Ecke,Jan C Semenza,Elena Buzan,Federico Costa,Emanuele Giorgi,Junwen Guo,Lucinda Kirkpatrick,Sascha Knauf,Yonas Meheretu,Navinder Singh,Henrik Sjödin,Matt Timperley,Marina Treskova,Rainer G Ulrich,Caio Graco Zeppelini,Joacim Rocklöv

{"title":"Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks.","authors":"Frauke Ecke,Jan C Semenza,Elena Buzan,Federico Costa,Emanuele Giorgi,Junwen Guo,Lucinda Kirkpatrick,Sascha Knauf,Yonas Meheretu,Navinder Singh,Henrik Sjödin,Matt Timperley,Marina Treskova,Rainer G Ulrich,Caio Graco Zeppelini,Joacim Rocklöv","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02869-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02869-3","url":null,"abstract":"Infectious diseases pose a substantial threat to global health security. Key wildlife species, potentially harbouring numerous zoonotic pathogens, are increasingly being forced to adapt to disturbances from land-use change, human encroachment and climate change. Although the evidence is rather convincing pertaining to the increased risks of zoonotic diseases with degradation and disturbances, the scientific literature on the mitigating effects of ecosystem restoration on zoonotic spillover is scattered, inconclusive and challenged by the lack of a conceptual framework and practical guidance. In light of rising restoration needs and activities, we outline six critical considerations when examining impacts of zoonotic diseases from ecosystem restoration: (1) assessment of zoonotic disease targets; (2) time lag between restoration and recovery; (3) integration of trophic rewilding; (4) robust study designs; (5) controlling for confounding and modifying drivers; and (6) stakeholder engagement and co-creation with communities. Failure to account for these considerations makes the scientific contribution of restoration less valuable and may even jeopardize global efforts to reverse the global biodiversity decline.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145240871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Protect the Tibetan Plateau's rich felid diversity.

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02871-9

Shang Sheng,Xing Chen,Bin Wang,Yuan Wang,Biao Yang,Zhixin Wen,Yu Xu

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Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds. 学会使用鸟类天生的音-义联系。

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02855-9

William E Feeney,James A Kennerley,David Wheatcroft,Wei Liang,Joleah B Lamb,Niki Teunissen,Shelby L Lawson,Janice K Enos,Bo Zhou,Colleen Poje,Nicole M Richardson,Thomas A Ryan,Zara-Louise Cowan,Rohan M Brooker,Mairenn Attwood,Jordan Boersma,Marissa Zamora,Alfredo Attisano,Roman Gula,Jörn Theuerkauf,Ros Gloag,Vanina D Fiorini,Sharon A Gill,Anne Peters,Marcel Honza,Claire N Spottiswoode,Mark E Hauber,Andrea Manica,Michael S Webster,Damián E Blasi

{"title":"Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds.","authors":"William E Feeney,James A Kennerley,David Wheatcroft,Wei Liang,Joleah B Lamb,Niki Teunissen,Shelby L Lawson,Janice K Enos,Bo Zhou,Colleen Poje,Nicole M Richardson,Thomas A Ryan,Zara-Louise Cowan,Rohan M Brooker,Mairenn Attwood,Jordan Boersma,Marissa Zamora,Alfredo Attisano,Roman Gula,Jörn Theuerkauf,Ros Gloag,Vanina D Fiorini,Sharon A Gill,Anne Peters,Marcel Honza,Claire N Spottiswoode,Mark E Hauber,Andrea Manica,Michael S Webster,Damián E Blasi","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02855-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02855-9","url":null,"abstract":"Signals in vocal communication systems range from innate to learned. Although innate and learned signals are often assumed to be independent, Darwin speculated that they could be evolutionarily related, with the former being the foundation of the latter even in our own communication system, language. Here we test this hypothesis by studying the vocal communication systems of avian hosts of brood parasites. First, we show that 21 bird species separated by approximately 53 million years of evolution produce structurally similar 'whining' vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Exploring the social correlates of whining vocalization production, we find that species that produce this vocalization often exist in areas with dense parasite-host networks, suggesting that its production facilitates interactions among host species. Experiments across three continents show that this vocalization is referential towards brood parasites in multiple host species, that hearing them elicits an innate rapid recruiting response, and that host species from different continents respond equally to the whining vocalizations of each other, indicating that convergent use facilitates cooperative defences across species. Our results provide an example of a referential animal vocalization for which sound production in the correct context is learned but for which hearing it elicits an innate response, representing an intermediate between innate and learned signals.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A timetree of Fungi dated with fossils and horizontal gene transfers. 通过化石和水平基因转移确定真菌的年代。

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02851-z

Lénárd L Szánthó,Zsolt Merényi,Philip Donoghue,Toni Gabaldón,László G Nagy,Gergely J Szöllősi,Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès

{"title":"A timetree of Fungi dated with fossils and horizontal gene transfers.","authors":"Lénárd L Szánthó,Zsolt Merényi,Philip Donoghue,Toni Gabaldón,László G Nagy,Gergely J Szöllősi,Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02851-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02851-z","url":null,"abstract":"Dating the tree of Fungi has been challenging due to a paucity of fossil calibrations and high taxonomic diversity of the group. Here we reconstructed and dated a comprehensive phylogeny comprising 110 fungal species, utilizing 225 phylogenetic markers and accounting for across-site compositional heterogeneity in amino acid sequences. To address uncertainties in fungal dating, we sampled chronograms from four relaxed molecular clock analyses, each integrating distinct sets of calibrations and relative time-order constraints. The first analysis used a core set of 27 calibrations alongside 17 relative constraints derived from fungi-to-fungi horizontal gene transfer events. Three further analyses extended this core set with additional timing information identified in our reevaluation of the evolution of pectin-specific enzymes in Fungi. Our timetree, integrating analytic uncertainties, suggests older ages for crown Fungi (1,401-896 Ma) than recently reported, providing a minimum age for ancient interactions involving fungi and the algal ancestors of embryophytes in terrestrial ecosystems (1,253-797 Ma). This supports a protracted gap between the onset of these interactions and the rise of modern land plants. Altogether, our study provides a refined timescale for fungal diversification and a temporal framework for future investigations into early interactions involving fungi and the algal ancestors of embryophytes.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145203521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas. 在人口密集的地区，动物网络变得更加紧密。

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02880-8

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Author Correction: Genomes of fungi and relatives reveal delayed loss of ancestral gene families and evolution of key fungal traits. 作者更正：真菌及其近亲的基因组揭示了祖先基因家族的延迟丧失和真菌关键性状的进化。

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02881-7

Zsolt Merényi, Krisztina Krizsán, Neha Sahu, Xiao-Bin Liu, Balázs Bálint, Jason E Stajich, Joseph W Spatafora, László G Nagy

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Mitochondrial genomes of Middle Pleistocene horses from the open-air site complex of Schöningen. 来自Schöningen露天遗址复合体的中更新世马的线粒体基因组。

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02859-5

Arianna Weingarten,Meret Häusler,Jordi Serangeli,Ivo Verheijen,Ella Reiter,Rita Radzevičiūtė,Alexander Stoessel,Johannes Krause,Maria A Spyrou,Nicholas J Conard,Kay Nieselt,Cosimo Posth

{"title":"Mitochondrial genomes of Middle Pleistocene horses from the open-air site complex of Schöningen.","authors":"Arianna Weingarten,Meret Häusler,Jordi Serangeli,Ivo Verheijen,Ella Reiter,Rita Radzevičiūtė,Alexander Stoessel,Johannes Krause,Maria A Spyrou,Nicholas J Conard,Kay Nieselt,Cosimo Posth","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02859-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02859-5","url":null,"abstract":"Deep-time palaeogenomics offers rare insights into macroevolutionary events for both extant and extinct species. Aside from a Middle Pleistocene genome from North American permafrost (780-560 ka) and a number of Late Pleistocene specimens, most ancient horse DNA studies have focused on tracing the origins of domestication and subsequent periods. Here we present mitochondrial genomes from two Equus mosbachensis specimens from Schöningen, Germany, a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site complex with direct and repeated evidence of hominin-horse interactions on the shore of a palaeolake. Using petrous bone sampling, targeted enrichment and damage-aware and polarization-free mitochondrial DNA reconstruction methods, we extend the range of genome recovery in open-air sites to ~300,000 years ago. Phylogenetic analyses position these mitochondrial DNAs in two distinct, deeply divergent lineages, basal to both previously sequenced ancient Eurasian specimens and all modern-day horses. The Schöningen horse mitochondrial DNA data reveal a previously unrecognized diversification event within the clade, ultimately giving rise to modern-day horses, that is molecularly dated to ~570 ka and provides genetic support for the morphological species assignment. By extending the recoverable limits of ancient DNA from Middle Pleistocene open-air sites, our molecular findings bridge a temporal and geographic gap, providing insights on early evolutionary events within the genus Equus.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145203520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Speciating swallows 形成物种燕子。

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02875-5

Vaishali Bhaumik

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