Tag: evolutionary biology

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 ...

A large-scale genomic survey of the medicinal fungus Cordyceps militaris reveals dynamic mitochondrial intron turnover, ongoing mitochondrial-to-nuclear DNA transfer, and ...

A new PNAS study finds identical genetic changes independently evolved in jellyfish lineages separated by more than 600 million years, ...

A new perspective argues that a rich class of probability models known as Markov modulated models could transform how evolutionary ...

A new theoretical paper argues that a single conserved regulatory architecture sustains biological coherence across evolution and, when disrupted within ...