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The evolutionary trajectory of phytophagous weevils reveals how ancient host plant shifts and continental drift influenced the development of diverse insect-plant interactions through time.

The efficacy of eyespots in deterring avian predators is more due to their conspicuousness rather than their resemblance to eyes.

Studying the fecal microbiota of wild baboons helps provide new insight into the factors that influence biological aging.

Spatial genomics reveals the mode of evolution of a tumour based on the positions of mutations in high-resolution samples.

High mutational load tumors mitigate effects from protein-damaging mutations by up-regulating complexes that buffer against misfolding stress, revealing therapeutic vulnerabilities and suggesting disrupted proteostasis is a hallmark of somatic evolution.

Differences in the ribosomal densities of the two daughters produced by a mother Escherichia coli could explain the asymmetry of aging and growth rate in previously reported such daughter pairs.

The innate immune protein PKR, which is inhibited by viral proteins that mimic its natural substrate, has access to a wide spectrum of inhibitor-evading mutations that maintain natural substrate binding.