Highlights•Transcriptional ADs are extremely variable in sequence, structure, and
interactions.•The recruitment of coactivators by ADs requires specificity, thus is …

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

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is one of the 25 most endangered primate
species in the world, maintaining amongst the lowest genetic diversity of any primate …

A gene is considered essential when its loss of function results in a deleterious phenotype,
hugely reducing the organism's viability or fitness. However, the link between the essentiality …

Introduction The differential ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous nucleotide substitutions
(dN/dS) is a common measure of the rate of structural evolution in proteincoding genes. In …

The HUSH complex (composed of TASOR, MPP8 and periphilin) represses HIV-1
expression from its promoter by inducing both propagation of repressive epigenetic marks …

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by the receptive syconia of Ficus species play
a vital role in attracting highly species-specific pollinating fig wasps. The components of …

Kostermansia malayana Soegeng, a species of Malvaceae endemic to the Malay Peninsula,
is threatened by its rare flowering rate and habitat loss due to agriculture land conversion …

Transposable elements (TEs), with their ability to change positions within a genome, have
paradoxically been seen as both a potentially deleterious genomic phenomenon and a …

Résumé Un gène est considéré comme essentiel ou important d'un point de vue fonctionnel
lorsque sa perte de fonction entraîne un phénotype morbide ou létal, selon la …