Aquaculture is the productive activity that will play a crucial role in the challenges of the
millennium, such as the need for proteins that support humans and the respect for the …

BACKGROUND Evolution is a strongly historical process, and evolutionary biology is a field
that combines history and science. How the historical nature of evolution affects the …

The living world is largely divided into autotrophs that convert CO 2 into biomass and
heterotrophs that consume organic compounds. In spite of widespread interest in renewable …

The human gut microbiome represents a complex ecosystem contributing essential
functions to its host. Recent large-scale metagenomic studies have provided insights into its …

The outcomes of evolution are determined by a stochastic dynamical process that governs
how mutations arise and spread through a population. However, it is difficult to observe …

As organisms evolve, the effects of mutations change as a result of epistatic interactions with
other mutations accumulated along the line of descent. This can lead to shifts in adaptability …

In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and
understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in …

Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) can be used to reconstruct eco-evolutionary
population dynamics and to identify the genetic basis of adaptation in laboratory evolution …

Plants produce a huge array of metabolites, far more than those produced by most other
organisms. Unraveling this diversity and its underlying genetic variation has attracted …

Transposable elements (TE), small mobile genetic elements unable to exist independently
of the host genome, were initially believed to be exclusively deleterious genomic parasites …