Tag: evolution

The open-access journal Biological Diversity has launched a call for papers for a special issue on the evolutionary mechanisms that ...

A Lund University wind tunnel study shows that the European nightjar's broad wings aid slow hunting flight but reduce lift ...

Structural analysis of teleost fish shows that pIgR binds tetrameric IgM directly without the joining chain in an unconventional 2:1 ...

UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how the ...

Protein structure prediction has revealed an ancient family of IL-1 cytokines spanning cnidarians to vertebrates, indicating that the inflammatory IL-1/IL-1R ...

Technion researchers show that when multiple evolutionary paths offer equal fitness, populations deterministically drift toward flatter, more robust regions of ...

A three-decade survey of gutless marine worms reveals that their remarkably stable symbioses depend on a surprising willingness to acquire ...

Live microscopy shows Asgard archaea, humanity's closest microbial relatives, using actin-driven protrusions to crawl across surfaces, a behavior once thought ...

Researchers at the University of Würzburg have reconstructed how New World blackbirds originated in North America and spread step by ...

New 518-million-year-old fossils named Yujingia glutenotunica suggest that the common ancestor of starfish and acorn worms used tentacles to feed, ...