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An evolutionary perspective on immune priming across plants and invertebrates highlights the roles of microbiomes and epigenetic regulation in shaping innate immune memory with promising applications in agriculture and aquaculture.

Amino acids that were abundant since the prebiotic era are enriched in protein binding sites of the most ancient coenzymes, supporting the plausibility of an early coenzyme–peptide world.

The Major Histocompatibility Complex region evolves via gene birth-and-death, resulting in short-lived genes, rapidly expanding gene subfamilies, and many gene fragments.

A comparative analysis of genome-wide seasonal gene expression dynamics across four forest tree species revealed that a shared 'molecular calendar' emerges in winter, constraining gene expression evolution and potentially limiting temporal niche partitioning and species divergence in seasonal environments.

HoxB-dependent anterior–posterior patterning and the evolutionary origin of pectoral fins.

Fitness constraints on the HIV envelope protein are highly similar in humans and rhesus macaques, emphasizing the utility of macaque models of infection and antibody development.