Researchers investigating male-specific tarsal brushes in fruit flies found that identical cellular mechanisms and bristle packing density evolved across distantly ...
Fossils of a giant rodent discovered in Thailand suggest large rodents evolved earlier and more widely than previously thought.
A new geo-metric method uses conserved DNA sequences as landmarks to quantify chromosomal structural variants across species.
Complete chloroplast genome sequencing of four specialized Lysimachia species revealed unexpected evolutionary placements and clarified divergence timelines across the genus.
A three-dimensional cranial analysis reveals that environmental adaptation, geographic location, and body size helped drive substantial snout shape differences among ...
A new review describes how reactive oxygen species promote regeneration at physiological levels but inhibit it at pathological concentrations.
Researchers have developed an exact fixed-parameter algorithm and a fast heuristic for deciding whether undirected phylogenetic networks can be oriented ...
A study of 176 middle-aged men found that masculine physical traits and testosterone did not independently predict biological aging markers, ...
A qualitative study of 51 Black and African American undergraduates finds broad interest in evolution but widespread uncertainty about evolution ...
Plant populations do not always have to commit to a single way of reproducing.
A comparative genomic study finds that strong selection on maternally inherited egg colour mimicry in cuckoo finches accelerates W chromosome ...
A study of C. elegans shows that developmental insulin signalling knockdown accelerates growth, boosts reproduction and extends lifespan, but impairs ...
Rare variants in the C2CD3 gene, which helps build primary cilia, have been linked to missing, extra and unusually shaped ...
A PLOS Biology primer discusses how genotype-specific interactions between hosts and parasites maintain genetic diversity through balancing selection.
TranscriptFormer maps gene-expression profiles from 112 million cells across 12 species, enabling cross-species comparisons, cell-type identification in an unseen species ...
A comparative review proposes two reproductive criteria for multicellularity and argues that internal fertilization and initial viviparity characterized the earliest ...
A new theoretical study proposes that the extended opening of closed spruce galls disrupted mating synchrony in ancestral aphids, driving ...
A scanning electron microscopy study of 25 caddisfly species found seven sensilla types on mouthpart palps and a broadly shared ...
Comparative transcriptomics in three Onthophagus beetles links female horn plasticity to conserved and lineage-specific gene-expression networks, with functional experiments still ...
A study of little skate embryos reveals that the layered spinal cord and target-dependent maturation of touch and pain circuits ...
