Complex traits are influenced by genes and the environment, but especially the latter is difficult to pin down. This important study uses C. elegans to demonstrate that non-genetic differences in gene ...

After combining additional data on the 1,800 or so species not included in these studies, the team formed a complete map of avian evolutionary history. The results of this work were detailed in ...

New study sheds light on how insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other arthropods evolved their distinct body structures. By tracing these patterns back to ancient embryonic processes, the research ...

Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provides a novel model for understanding the development and evolution of arthropod body ...

The findings challenge long-held assumptions and offer a bold new framework for understanding how developmental mechanisms shaped the evolution of arthropods over hundreds of millions of years.

The detailed map of connections between nerve cells in the macaque claustrum and the rest of the brain could help us understand how this region and its different cell types play a role in ...

There is a surprising amount of variation in how people perceive the ... are objective and exist independently of a person’s mind. Likewise, we suggest that color plays an indispensable role ...

This allowed them to map the co-evolution of plasmids and E. coli strains back 300 years, illustrating that this is a highly conserved and useful method of genetic transfer. By unravelling the ...

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