As we are approaching the twentieth anniversary of PulseNet, a network of public health and
regulatory laboratories that has changed the landscape of foodborne illness surveillance …

Simple Summary The red palm weevil (RPW) Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera:
Curculionidae) is a species of beetle that depends on palm trees to complete its life cycle …

Resolving the early diversification of animal lineages has proven difficult, even using
genome-scale datasets. Several phylogenomic studies have supported the classical …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide. An expanding
body of evidence supports the role of human microbiome in the establishment of CVDs and …

California sea lions are one of the major marine mammal species along the Pacific coast of
North America. Sea lions are susceptible to a wide variety of viruses, some of which can be …

Hydrothermal vents are a well-known source of energy that powers chemosynthesis in the
deep sea. Recent work suggests that microbial chemosynthesis is also surprisingly …

Diversifying selection on metabolic pathways can reduce intraspecific gene flow and
promote population divergence. An opportunity to explore this arises from mitonuclear …

Plastid genomes in the flowering plant family Geraniaceae are known to be highly
rearranged based on complete sequences representing the four major genera Erodium …

The close interactions of dogs with humans and surrounding wildlife provide frequent
opportunities for cross-species virus transmissions. In order to initiate an unbiased …

Podophyllum species are sources of (−)-podophyllotoxin, an aryltetralin lignan used for semi-
synthesis of various powerful and extensively employed cancer-treating drugs. Its …