Evolution is the fundamental physical process that gives rise to biological phenomena. Yet it
is widely treated as a subset of population genetics, and thus its scope is artificially limited …

Genome-scale metabolic models bridge the gap between genome-derived biochemical
information and metabolic phenotypes in a principled manner, providing a solid …

The concept of mechanism has been an important organizing principle in science and
philosophy since at least the early modern period (Dijksterhuis 1950 [1961]; Boas 1952) …

The human microbiome plays a key role in a wide range of host-related processes and has
a profound effect on human health. Comparative analyses of the human microbiome have …

Although widely used in practice, the behavior and accuracy of the popular module
identification technique called modularity maximization is not well understood in practical …

The history of life is a nearly four billion year old story of transformative change. This change
ranges from dramatic macroscopic innovations such as the evolution of wings or eyes, to a …

Strep. to. my'ces. Gr. adj. streptos pliant, bent; Gr. masc. n. mukês fungus; NL masc. n.
Streptomyces pliant or bent fungus. Actinobacteria/Actinobacteria/Streptomycetales …

All microorganisms release many metabolites, collectively known as the exometabolome.
The resultant multi-way cross-feeding of metabolites among microorganisms distributes …

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity allows organisms to cope with environmental variability, and
yet, despite its adaptive significance, phenotypic plasticity is neither ubiquitous nor infinite. In …

Increased risk of infectious disease is assumed to be a major cost of group living, yet
empirical evidence for this effect is mixed. We studied whether larger social groups are more …