Organisms evolve in response to their natural environment. Consideration of natural
ecological parameters are thus of key importance for our understanding of an organism's …

The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has risen to the status of a top model organism for
biological research in the last fifty years. Among laboratory animals, this tiny nematode is …

To the Editor: The ability to add or delete genes to the genome of genetic model organisms
is essential. Previously, we had developed methods based on the Mos1 transposon1 to …

We have generated a recombinant Mos1 transposon that can insert up to 45-kb transgenes
into the Caenorhabditis elegans genome. The minimal Mos1 transposon (miniMos) is 550 …

There is great interest in being able to spread beneficial traits throughout wild populations in
ways that are self-sustaining. Here, we describe a chromosomal selfish genetic element …

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is now a major model organism in biology. The
choice of Sydney Brenner to adopt this species in the mid-1960s and the success of his …

Selfishness is pervasive and manifests at all scales of biology, from societies, to individuals,
to genetic elements within a genome. The relentless struggle to seek evolutionary …

Genetic biocontrol aims to suppress or modify populations of species to protect public
health, agriculture, and biodiversity. Advancements in genome engineering technologies …

Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that infect arthropod species worldwide and are
deployed in vector control to curb arboviral spread using cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). CI …

Although many studies have examined quantitative trait variation across many species, only
a small number of genes and thereby molecular mechanisms have been discovered …