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Single-cell and bulk sequencing data are combined through theoretical modeling to reveal the number of tissue-specific stem cells, mutation, and proliferation rates under sampling.

Plant drugs used by ancient Graeco-Roman societies have tastes and flavours that predict how they were used therapeutically.

CRISPR knock-outs and functional genomic approaches probe the regulatory mechanism restricting the Hox gene Ubx to butterfly hindwings, explaining color pattern differentiation from forewings.

The gene regulatory network of Nodal signaling, underpinning body axes patterning, was evolved specifically in cephalochordate lineage.

Social hierarchies resulting from the European colonization of the Americas stratified the population structure, leading to ancestry-related assortative mating and sex bias patterns that can be inferred from the genomes of the populations across the continent.

The rapid and gradual fin whale songs changes adopted by individuals of a certain area provide evidence of vocal learning in this species, elucidate patterns of song evolution and hints on the limits of song variation.

A comparison between artificially created allopolyploids and natural ones reveals that the latter underwent significant evolutionary steps after their formation.

Yeast that were evolved to adhere to plastic surfaces for a few hundred generations became hyper-adherent and more virulent.

Experimentally evolving yeast to adhere better to plastic led to adaptations that increased their ability to cause an infection.