Organelles with their own distinct genomes, such as plastids and mitochondria, are found in
most eukaryotic cells. As these organelles and their host cells have evolved, the partitioning …

Biological dinitrogen (N 2) fixation is a key metabolic process exclusively performed by
prokaryotes, some of which are symbiotic with eukaryotes. Species of the marine haptophyte …

The daunting task of feeding an ever-growing population is an immense challenge for the
contemporary scientific community, especially in view of the rapidly changing climate …

Polyploidy is a key mechanism of genome evolution and speciation, particularly in plants.
Many aspects of polyploidy have been elucidated with the tools that have become available …

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in develo** environmental DNA
metabarcoding. However, its ability to quantify species relative abundance remains …

Why the rate of metabolism varies (scales) in regular, but diverse ways with body size is a
perennial, incompletely resolved question in biology. In this article, I discuss several …

An open process of evolution of multicellular organisms is based on the rearrangement and
growth of the program of differentiation that underlies biological morphogenesis. The …

Diabetes mellitus (DM), currently affecting 463 million people worldwide is a chronic disease
characterized by impaired glucose metabolism resulting from the loss or dysfunction of …

Drought affects the growth of legumes directly, and indirectly, by reducing total nitrogen
fixation. Here, we compiled published data to compare the sensitivity to water deficit on plant …

Many urban features are found to follow the scaling relationship with population size (Y= αN
β). It has been found that the infrastructures scale 5/6 sublinearly with population size, and …