Affordable, high-throughput DNA sequencing has accelerated the pace of genome
assembly over the past decade. Genome assemblies from high-throughput, short-read …

Resistance to therapy is a major obstacle to cancer treatment. It may exist from the
beginning, or it may develop during therapy. The review focusses on oncolytic Newcastle …

INTRODUCTION The ruminants are one of the most successful mammalian lineages,
exhibiting extensive morphological and ecological diversity and containing several key …

Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic
movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the …

A core question in evolutionary biology is whether convergent phenotypic evolution is driven
by convergent molecular changes in proteins or regulatory regions. We combined …

Extensive research on avian adaptive radiations has led to a presumption that beak
morphology predicts feeding ecology in birds. However, this ecomorphological relationship …

Consistent patterns of positive selection in functionally similar genes can suggest a common
selective pressure across a group of species. We use alignments of orthologous protein …

Genome-wide phylogeny reconstruction is becoming increasingly common, and one driving
factor behind these phylogenomic studies is the promise that the potential discordance …

For centuries, biologists have used phenotypes to infer evolution. For decades, a handful of
gene markers have given us a glimpse of the genotype to combine with phenotypic traits …

Poultry eggs from different species varied significantly, due to their divergent process of
evolution. However, the information on egg characteristics has been limited mostly to …