BACKGROUND The extent of urban areas is increasing around the world, and most humans
now live in cities. Urbanization results in dramatic environmental change, including …

Although research performed in cities will not uncover new evolutionary mechanisms, it
could provide unprecedented opportunities to examine the interplay of evolutionary forces in …

Environmental disasters offer the unique opportunity for landscape-scale ecological and
evolutionary studies that are not possible in the laboratory or small experimental plots. The …

The 1986 disaster at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant transformed the surrounding
region into the most radioactive landscape known on the planet. Whether or not this sudden …

Over the course of billions of years, receptors and the organisms in which they function have
been evolving endocrine systems that are astonishing in their complexity, diversity, and …

Wildlife inhabiting environments contaminated by radionuclides face putative detrimental
effects of exposure to ionizing radiation, with biomarkers such as an increase in DNA …

Mitochondrial dysfunction with exposure to anthropogenic contaminants is a critical concern
in biomedical and ecological health. Importantly, understanding the role of mitotoxicants in …

Species identity is thought to dominate over environment in shaping wild rodent gut
microbiota, but it remains unknown whether the responses of host gut microbiota to shared …

Cantharellus is a large ectomycorrhizal genus. Here, we assembled and annotated the
mitochondrial genomes of C. lutescens, C. appalachiensis, and two specimens of C …

Despite the ubiquity of pollutants in the environment, their long‐term ecological
consequences are not always clear and still poorly studied. This is the case concerning the …