The ability of feathers to perform many functions either simultaneously or at different times
throughout the year or life of a bird is integral to the evolutionary history of birds. Many …

Wild animals and plants have developed a variety of adaptive traits driven by adaptive
evolution, an important strategy for species survival and persistence. Uncovering the …

Promoter editing represents an innovative approach to introduce quantitative trait variation
(QTV) in crops. However, an efficient promoter editing system for QTV needs to be …

Reconstruction of target genomes from sequence data produced by instruments that are
agnostic as to the species-of-origin may be confounded by contaminant DNA. Whether …

Annotating coding genes and inferring orthologs are two classical challenges in genomics
and evolutionary biology that have traditionally been approached separately, limiting …

Gene regulatory elements are central drivers of phenotypic variation and thus of critical
importance towards understanding the genetics of complex traits. The Functional Annotation …

Developmental phenotypic changes can evolve under selection imposed by age-and size-
related ecological differences. Many of these changes occur through programmed …

Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

Presumably, due to a rapid early diversification, major parts of the higher-level phylogeny of
birds are still resolved controversially in different analyses or are considered unresolvable …

Phenotypic variation among species is a product of evolutionary changes to developmental
programs,. However, how these changes generate novel morphological traits remains …