Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

Sexual selection results in sex-specific characters like the conspicuously pigmented
extension of the ventral tip of the caudal fin—the" sword"—in males of several species of …

Simple Summary Sexual selection, through female choice or male–male competition, plays
a crucial role in evolutionary diversification and speciation. While the evolutionary benefits …

Abstract Lateralized behavior (“handedness”) is unusual, but consistently found across
diverse animal lineages, including humans. It is thought to reflect brain anatomical and/or …

Comparative analyses of gene regulation inform about the molecular basis of phenotypic
trait evolution. Here, we address a fin shape phenotype that evolved multiple times …

The diversity of fin morphology within and across fish taxa offers great, but still largely
unexplored, opportunities to investigate the proximate mechanisms underlying fin shape …

Variation in fin shape and size contributes to the outstanding morphological diversity of
teleost fishes, but the regulation of fin growth has not yet been studied extensively outside …

Background The expression of sexually selected traits often varies with populations'
breeding cycles in many animals. The elucidation of mechanisms underlying the expression …

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

Variation in fin shape is one of the most prominent features of morphological diversity
among fish. Regulation of fin growth has mainly been studied in zebrafish, and it is not clear …