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Changes in diet associated with domestication may have shaped the composition of microbes found in the guts of animals.

Gut microbial signatures of domestication parallel those of industrialization, implicating shared ecological drivers.

High-quality genomes can be obtained from roadkill samples and used in population genomics for species delimitation with conservation implications.

Duplication of tumor suppressor genes contributed to the evolution of large, long-lived elephants.

The transcription factor HAND2 evolved uterine expression during the origins of pregnancy and may be important for maternal-fetal immune signaling and parturition.

Comparing the genes expressed at the maternal-fetal interface in different species helps to pinpoint those that contribute to a healthy pregnancy by regulating the activity of the immune system.

An investigation of transposable element evolution in a group of long-term asexual animals shows that many of the predicted effects of asexuality are not observed.

Mathematical modelling suggests that the evolution of communication between bacterial viruses requires repeated outbreak events, and the model then predicts typical communication strategies.

The chestnut blight fungus has successfully established an intermediary, diverse European bridgehead population, giving rise to a highly invasive clonal lineage spreading across southeastern Europe.

Omics approaches reveal conserved and diversified gene regulation between fin and limb development.