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Depletion of vsx genes in zebrafish confirms a conserved role in bipolar cells specification across vertebrates, but do not interfere with the formation of the neural retina domain, which reveal an unexpected robustness of the genetic network sustaining the retina.

The genomic features associated with a gene fate to loss have been retained for approximately 500 million years during evolution, and the genes with these features exhibit restricted expression profiles, leading to the genes being less important.

The two-way coupling between collective actions and risk is essential to avoid the tragedy of the commons.

Natural temperature variation across an optimal reproductive range for wild flies (Drosophila melanogaster) modulates the impact of sexual conflict on female fitness via asymmetric effects on pre- and post-copulatory male harm mechanisms.

Misalignment between light and temperature cycles leads to disrupted circadian behavior and a substantially altered rhythmic transcriptome.

By producing one hundred SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic trees for different geographical and time scales, the maximum likelihood-based phylodynamic method implemented here enabled to robustly describe SARS-CoV-2 geographic spread through France, Europe, and worldwide in 2020.

A policing system in Bacillus velezensis coordinated extracellular matrix production and autotoxin synthesis/self-immunity to penalize cheater-like nonproducers in biofilm community, which enhances the population stability and ecological fitness under stress conditions and in the rhizosphere.

Ancient animal Dicer used its helicase domain to couple the detection of foreign double-stranded RNA to efficient ATP hydrolysis and antiviral defense, but this function declined before the advent of deuterostomes and vertebrates.

Resistance genes that spread as a result of the use of an antimicrobial peptide (colistin) in agriculture (MCR) protect bacteria against key components of human and animal immune systems.