The recent increase in genomic data is revealing an unexpected perspective of gene loss as
a pervasive source of genetic variation that can cause adaptive phenotypic diversity. This …

Arthropods have well adapted to the vast array of chemicals they encounter in their
environment. Whether these xenobiotics are plant allelochemicals or anthropogenic …

A central question in evolutionary biology is whether sponges or ctenophores (comb jellies)
are the sister group to all other animals. These alternative phylogenetic hypotheses imply …

Animal genomes show networks of deeply conserved gene linkages whose phylogenetic
scope and chromosomal context remain unclear. Here, we report chromosome-scale …

We used 20 de novo genome assemblies to probe the speciation history and architecture of
gene flow in rapidly radiating Heliconius butterflies. Our tests to distinguish incomplete …

The SIFT (sorting intolerant from tolerant) algorithm helps bridge the gap between mutations
and phenotypic variations by predicting whether an amino acid substitution is deleterious …

Phylosymbiosis was recently proposed to describe the eco-evolutionary pattern, whereby
the ecological relatedness of host-associated microbial communities parallels the phylogeny …

Many groups of closely related species have reticulate phylogenies. Recent genomic
analyses are showing this in many insects and vertebrates, as well as in microbes and …

Previous studies have identified topologically associating domains (TADs) as basic units of
genome organization. We present evidence of a previously unreported level of genome …

Long-read sequencing is driving rapid progress in genome assembly across all major
groups of life, including species of the family Drosophilidae, a longtime model system for …