The borders between cell and developmental biology, which have always been permeable,
have largely dissolved. One manifestation is the blossoming of cilia biology, with cell and …

Plant–fungal interactions are widespread in nature, and their multiple benefits for plant
growth and health have been amply demonstrated. Endophytic and epiphytic fungi can …

RNA-guided systems, which use complementarity between a guide RNA and target nucleic
acid sequences for recognition of genetic elements, have a central role in biological …

The textbook view of cell division terminates with the final separation of the two daughter
cells in the process called abscission. However, in contrast to this classical view, a variety of …

Ancient enzootic associations between wildlife and their infections allow evolution to
innovate mechanisms of pathogenicity that are counterbalanced by host responses …

Amoeboid cell types are fundamental to animal biology and broadly distributed across
animal diversity, but their evolutionary origin is unclear. The closest living relatives of …

Fungi have successfully established themselves across seemingly every possible niche,
substrate, and biome. They are fundamental to biogeochemical cycling, interspecies …

Many eukaryotes form multinucleated cells during their development. Some cells persist as
such during their lifetime, others choose to cleave each nucleus individually using a …

A signature feature of the animal kingdom is the presence of epithelia: sheets of polarized
cells that both insulate the organism from its environment and mediate interactions with it …

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a causative agent of chytridiomycosis, is decimating
amphibian populations around the world. Bd belongs to the chytrid lineage, a group of early …