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Yeast cells adapt to harmful superoxide generated during mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation by arresting respiration through mtDNA deletions whose emergence depend on superoxide dismutase 2 and the retrograde pathway.

The biocontrol fungus Trichoderma atroviride possess a functional circadian clock, whose components impact the production of secondary metabolites and also play a role in the interaction with fungi such as the phytopathogen Botrytis cinerea.

Genomic approaches can be integrated with epidemiological and ecological studies to provide high-resolution answers to open questions about schistosomiasis transmission dynamics, offering a level of precision that is actionable, such that schistosomiasis-control programming can be tailored to regional contexts.

Comprehensive genomic and population genetic analyses of a non-recombining chromosome in white-throated sparrows reveal the actions of purifying selection, positive selection, and balancing selection, expanding our understanding of supergene evolution.

Genomic imprinting in the bryophyte Marchantia polymorpha by Polycomb results in maternal dominance of embryonic gene expression.

Future vaccination strategies in pneumococcal disease should target specific bacterial serotypes for different host age groups.

Accounting for genetic information improved normative models of hippocampal volume in humans by accounting for change equivalent to around 3 years of normal loss for a person aged 65.

Defining the probability of bacterial disease among children with severe malaria allows the integration of bacteraemia and severe malaria genome-wide association study data, identifying a novel risk locus for invasive bacterial disease.

Elevated growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF15) levels do not appear to be a causal factor in body mass index (BMI) in humans but higher BMI does cause increases in GDF15.

A new insight into quinoa diversity enables sequence-based breeding and functional genomics.