Neural crest (NC) multipotent stem cells give rise to many tissues including most of the peripheral nervous system, pigment cells and the craniofacial mesenchyme and skeleton. During gastrulation and ...

In this Comment, Cedric Feschotte highlights evidence from diverse lineages showing that transposable elements are key drivers of evolutionary innovation, repeatedly introducing regulatory and coding ...

Bears in Svalbard, Norway, are fatter than expected, and others in Greenland are showing signs of genetically adapting to climate change — but the signs elsewhere are not good.

Polar bears are expected to become extinct but there are some signs their DNA is changing and they are adapting to new temperatures.

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Reduced insulin/IGF-1 signalling (IIS) robustly extends lifespan and enhances somatic stress resistance across taxa, yet its consequences for germline genome integrity remain unclear. Here we combine ...

Mobile DNA - A new subpopulation of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) was recently discovered in the South-East of Greenland. This isolated colony inhabits a warmer climate zone, akin to the predicted...

Dr Anders Bergström, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia Professor Cock van Oosterhout, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Selina Brace…

Environmental fluctuations influence heritable phenotypes through complex molecular mechanisms. In zebrafish (Danio rerio), the interplay between temperature variation, transposable element (TE) activ...

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Heredity - Environmentally induced variation in sperm sRNAs is linked to gene expression and transposable elements in zebrafish offspring

Neural crest (NC) cells form a multipotent stem cell population specified during neurulation, which undergo an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and migrate extensively in the developing embr...

One of the key processes that forms the basis of fertilisation is the tight interaction between sperm and egg. Both sperm and egg proteomes are known to evolve and diverge rapidly even between closel...

Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quant...

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