For centuries, people believed that bats possessed sinister powers. Bats are thought to be
ancestral hosts to many deadly viruses affecting humans including Ebola, rabies, and most …

Transposable elements (TEs) are selfish genetic units that typically encode proteins that
enable their proliferation in the genome and spread across individual hosts. Here we review …

During the course of evolution, genomes acquire novel genetic elements as sources of
functional and phenotypic diversity, including new genes that originated in recent evolution …

The testis expresses the largest number of genes of any mammalian organ, a finding that
has long puzzled molecular biologists. Our single-cell transcriptomic data of human and …

Because modern humans originated in Africa and have adapted to diverse environments,
African populations have high levels of genetic and phenotypic diversity. Thus, genomic …

Background Sociality has many rewards, but can also be dangerous, as high population
density and low genetic diversity, common in social insects, is ideal for parasite …

Sexual reproduction and the exchange of genetic information are essential biological
processes for species across all branches of the tree of life. Over the last four decades …

In many systems, host–parasite evolutionary dynamics have led to the emergence and
maintenance of diverse parasite and host genotypes within the same population. Genotypes …

Disease susceptibility can arise as a consequence of adaptation to infectious disease.
Recent findings have suggested that higher rates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in …

Behaviors associated with reproduction are major contributors to the evolutionary success of
organisms and are subject to many evolutionary forces, including natural and sexual …