Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

Among the innovative technologies being elaborated for sustainable agriculture, one of the
most rapidly develo** fields relies on the positive effects of non-thermal plasma (NTP) …

In human populations, women consistently outlive men, which suggests profound biological
foundations for sex differences in survival. Quantifying whether such sex differences are also …

Evolutionary medicine–ie the application of insights from evolution and ecology–has
tremendous untapped potential to spark transformational innovation in biomedicine and …

A discrepancy between the phenotype of an individual and that which would confer optimal
responses in terms of fitness in an environment is termed 'mismatch'. Phenotype results from …

The gut barrier is a single cell layer that separates gut micro-organisms from the host, and
gut permeability defects result in the translocation of microbial molecules from the gut into …

Habitat anthropization is a major driver of global biodiversity decline. Although most species
are negatively affected, some benefit from anthropogenic habitat modifications by showing …

Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are large, multidomain biosynthetic enzymes
involved in the assembly-line–like synthesis of numerous peptide natural products. Among …

Williams' evolutionary theory of senescence based on antagonistic pleiotropy has become a
landmark in evolutionary biology, and more recently in biogerontology and evolutionary …

Domesticated citrus varieties are woody perennials and interspecific hybrid crops of global
economic and nutritional importance. The citrus fruit “hesperidium” is a unique …