Abstract IQ-TREE (http://www. iqtree. org, last accessed February 6, 2020) is a user-friendly
and widely used software package for phylogenetic inference using maximum likelihood …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are post-transcriptional regulators that finetune gene expression via
translational repression or degradation of their target mRNAs. Despite their functional …

Phylogenetic comparative methods have long been a mainstay of evolutionary biology,
allowing for the study of trait evolution across species while accounting for their common …

The risk of develo** cancer is correlated with body size and lifespan within species.
Between species, however, there is no correlation between cancer and either body size or …

Interrogating the ecological and geographic factors that influence population divergence
dynamics can reveal why some groups of organisms diversify more prolifically than others …

An increasing number of invasive fruit fly pests are colonizing new grounds. With this study,
we aimed to uncover the invasion pathways of the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis into …

Somatic variations can give rise to bud sports with advantageous traits, serving as the
foundation for bud sport breeding in perennial plants. Here, we report a fully phased …

The Brazilian buffy-tufted-ear marmoset (Callithrix aurita), one of the world's most
endangered primates, is threatened by anthropogenic hybridization with exotic, invasive …

A candidate antimicrobial peptide (AmAMP1) was identified by searching the whole genome
sequence of Acropora millepora for short (< 125AA) cysteine-rich predicted proteins with an …

Deltacoronavirus, widely distributed among pigs and wild birds, pose a significant risk of
cross-species transmission, including potential human epidemics. Metagenomic analysis of …