Over two thousand plant species have been modified morphologically through cultivation
and human use. Here, we review three aspects of crop domestication that are currently …

Various biological attributes associated with individual fitness in animals change predictably
over the lifespan of an organism. Therefore, the study of animal ecology and the work of …

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–CRISPR-associated
protein (Cas) technology has been applied in plant breeding mainly on genes for improving …

To cope with DNA double strand break (DSB) genotoxicity, cells have evolved two main
repair pathways: homologous recombination which uses homologous DNA sequences as …

Infertility affects one in six couples worldwide, and fertility continues to deteriorate globally,
partly owing to a decline in semen quality. Sperm analysis has a central role in diagnosing …

The rise of the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–CRISPR-
associated protein (Cas) system has made it possible to induce double-strand breaks at …

The model for telomere shortening at each replication cycle is currently incomplete, and the
exact contribution of the telomeric 3′ overhang to the shortening rate remains unclear …

The evolutionary and ecological success of spermatophytes is intrinsically linked to the seed
habit, which provides a protective environment for the initial development of the new …

Telomeres are progressively eroded during repeated rounds of cell division due to the end
replication problem but also undergo additional more substantial stochastic shortening …

Parallel research on multiple model organisms shows that while some principles of telomere
biology are conserved among all eukaryotic kingdoms, we also find some deviations that …