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A toxin-antidote element, identified for its role as a selfish genetic element that spreads through a population by killing certain offspring, also plays a beneficial role to the host.

Pleiotropy of adaptive clones isolated from diverse experimental environment.

Crosses of loaches with various genetic and karyptype divergence cause different reproductive outcomes in hybrids, ranging from sexual reproduction to sterility, inviability, and clonality among females.

A genetic duplication event during evolution allowed male wood tiger moths to have either yellow or white patterns on their wings.

A computational neuroanatomy analysis of cerebellar and cerebral folding in 56 mammalian species reveals groups of highly variable 'diverse' phenotypes, and strongly conserved 'stable' phenotypes, providing new insights into the diversity, evolution, and influence of cortical folding on brain organisation.

Clonal development, but not aggregation, promotes the transition of Darwinian individuality from cells to groups, emphasizing the fundamental role of initial multicellular life cycles in the evolution of multicellularity.

Isoform-specific variations in doublecortin-like kinases offer a new framework for understanding kinome-wide modulation of protein stability and catalytic activity.

Xenopus laevis arose from hybridization of two different frog species millions of years ago, leading to adaptation of the genetic networks controlling early embryonic development and stem cell induction to balance expression between the genes inherited from each ancestor.

Experiments on tropical trees suggest that new mutations in plants are driven by age rather than number of cell divisions during growth.

Predicting multivariate phenotypic evolution.