The selector gene mirror defines the far posterior wing domain in butterflies, revealing how ancestral axial subdivisions have been evolutionarily reduced in Drosophila.
Upstream open reading frames (uORFs) function as regulatory elements that buffer translation variability, stabilizing protein expression across animal developmental stages and evolutionary timescales.
Sarah R Mullinax, Andrea M Darby ... Robert L Unckless
Genetic variation in an immune peptide is maintained by multiple selective forces including an interplay between systemic immunity, sex, and the microbiome.
Shinichi Nakagawa, William K Cornwell, Corey T Callaghan
Analysis of 3 billion bird observations finds no intrinsic abundance-occupancy relationship, overturning a famous macroecological rule and redefining approaches to biodiversity assessment and conservation.
Leafhoppers evade predators using nanostructured brochosomes that reduce ultraviolet reflectance through morphology shaped by four novel structural proteins originating from evolutionary duplication–divergence processes.
Elizabeth J Fay, Kolya Isterabadi ... Matthew D Daugherty
Combining phylogenetic analyses and functional assays to study the receptor interacting protein kinase family reveals conserved and non-conserved functions in immune signaling across vertebrates.
