Explaining broad molecular, phenotypic and species biodiversity patterns necessitates a
unifying framework spanning multiple evolutionary scales. Here we argue that although …

Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

Abstract The Ensembl project (https://www. ensembl. org) annotates genomes and
disseminates genomic data for vertebrate species. We create detailed and comprehensive …

Rfam is a database of RNA families where each of the 3444 families is represented by a
multiple sequence alignment of known RNA sequences and a covariance model that can be …

We describe an update of MirGeneDB, the manually curated microRNA gene database.
Adhering to uniform and consistent criteria for microRNA annotation and nomenclature, we …

Over the last 25 years, researchers, mostly paleontologists, have developed a system of
rank-free, phylogenetically defined names for the primary clades of turtles. As these names …

The increased capacity of DNA sequencing has significantly advanced our understanding of
the phylogeny of birds and the proximate and ultimate mechanisms molding their genomic …

Higher-level classifications often must account for monotypic taxa representing depauperate
evolutionary lineages and lacking synapomorphies of their better-known, well-defined sister …

Comparative studies of mortality in the wild are necessary to understand the evolution of
aging; yet, ectothermic tetrapods are underrepresented in this comparative landscape …

The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in
bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate …