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A newly discovered enhancer region may have allowed vertebrates to evolve the ability to open and close their jaws.

Extensive field studies in poison frogs reveal that sex and species differences in parental behavior drive differences in space use patterns but not navigational performance and highlight the interplay between androgen levels and poison frog spatial behavior.

Mandrill mothers know best because they use their offspring’s facial resemblance with other infants to guide their social opportunities towards similar-looking ones as an adaptive maternal behavior.

Jaw joint regulatory sequence 1 (JRS1) is deeply conserved in most jawed vertebrates and displays a specific enhancer activity in the developing primary jaw joint that contributes to early nkx3.2 gene expression and jaw joint morphology.

Large-scale monitoring of Anopheles populations benefits from a robust and accurate species identification and plasmodium detection method that is applicable to the entire genus.

Parallel changes in organismal evolution can be observed even with disparate genomic changes due to similarity in functional outcomes, such as changes in molecular phenotypes like gene expression patterns.

By considering a new form of social cheat strategy, arms-races-like dynamics between coevolving selfish traits could emerge from the tragedy of the commons and help explain the variations in cheating levels observed in many microbes and eusocial insects.

Environmentally responsive genes evolve under strong selective constraint in Arabidopsis lyrata.

The generation of high-quality little skate reference genome enables molecular mechanism studies of gene regulation.

As long suspected, poxviruses capture host genes through a reverse-transcription process now shown to be mediated by retrotransposons.