Sensory receptors are at the interface between an organism and its environment and thus
represent key sites for biological innovation. Here, we survey major sensory receptor …

Background Capturing the genetic diversity of wild relatives is crucial for improving crops
because wild species are valuable sources of agronomic traits that are essential to enhance …

Parasitoids introduce various virulence factors when parasitism occurs, and some taxa
generate teratocytes to manipulate the host immune system and metabolic homeostasis for …

High intra-specific genetic diversity is associated with adaptive potential, which is key for
resilience to global change. However, high variation may also support deleterious alleles …

Staphylococcus aureus strains exhibit varying associations with atopic dermatitis (AD), but
the genetic determinants underpinning the pathogenicity are yet to be fully characterized. To …

Rubus, the largest genus in Rosaceae, contains over 1400 species that distributed in
multiple habitats across the world, with high species diversity in the temperate regions of …

In many species with sex chromosomes, the Y is a tiny chromosome. However, the
dioecious plant Silene latifolia has a giant~ 550-megabase Y chromosome, which has …

Androgens are pleiotropic and play pivotal roles in the formation and variation of sexual
phenotypes. We show that differences in circulating androgens between the three male …

Animal pigment patterns are excellent models to elucidate mechanisms of biological
organization. Although theoretical simulations, such as Turing reaction–diffusion systems …

Whole-genome duplication (WGD) followed by speciation allows us to examine the parallel
evolution of ohnolog pairs. In the yeast family Saccharomycetaceae, HRR25 is a rare case …