The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is now a major model organism in biology. The
choice of Sydney Brenner to adopt this species in the mid-1960s and the success of his …

Apical extracellular matrices (aECMs) coat exposed surfaces of epithelia to shape
developing tissues and protect them from environmental insults. Despite their widespread …

Plant-defense responses are triggered by perception of conserved microbe-associated
molecular patterns (MAMPs), for example, flagellin or peptidoglycan. However, it remained …

Developmental plasticity has been suggested to facilitate phenotypic diversity, but the
molecular mechanisms underlying this relationship are little understood. We analyzed a …

Abstract Development can be altered to match phenotypes with the environment, and the
genetic mechanisms that direct such alternative phenotypes are beginning to be elucidated …

Developmental plasticity has been proposed to facilitate phenotypic diversification in plants
and animals, but the macroevolutionary potential of plastic traits remains to be objectively …

Plasticity is a widespread feature of development, enabling phenotypic change based on the
environment. Although the evolutionary loss of plasticity has been linked both theoretically …

For insect-borne pathogens, phoretic ability is important not only to spread more widely and
efficiently but also to evolve virulence. Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, the causal agent of pine …

The tRNA modification field has a rich literature covering biochemical analysis going back
more than 40 years, but many of the corresponding genes were only identified in the last …

Environment shapes development through a phenomenon called developmental plasticity.
Deciphering its genetic basis has potential to shed light on the origin of novel traits and …