Interest in transgenerational epigenetic inheritance has intensified with the boosting of
knowledge on epigenetic mechanisms regulating gene expression during development and …

Eukaryotic phenotypic diversity arises from multitasking of a core proteome of limited size.
Multitasking is routine in computers, as well as in other sophisticated information systems …

In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic
determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of …

The problem of pre-nervous neurotransmitter systems arose from studies carried out on
different groups of invertebrates and vertebrates in the late 1950s to early 1960s. These …

A significant proportion of mammalian genes are not represented in the genomes of
Drosophila, Caenorhabditis or Saccharomyces, and many of these are assumed to have …

Increasing evidence supports the idea that various transgene silencing phenomena reflect
the activity of diverse host defense responses that act ordinarily on natural foreign or …

Primate molar shapes reflect developmental and ecological processes. Development may
constrain as well as facilitate evolution of new tooth shapes, affecting how reliable dental …

We review the various factors that limit adaptation by natural selection. Recent discussion of
constraints on selection and, conversely, of the factors that enhance “evolvability”, have …

Schistosoma japonicum causes schistosomiasis in humans and livestock in the Asia-Pacific
region. Knowledge of the genome of this parasite should improve understanding of …

The Hox gene cluster has a crucial function in body patterning during animal development.
How and when this gene cluster originated is being clarified by recent data from Cnidaria, a …