Many animal species replace histones with protamines during spermatogenesis. Although essential for sperm function, protamines evolve rapidly for reasons that remain unknown. Using in vivo gene replac...

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Nature Astronomy, Published online: 05 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41550-026-02992-6Astronomers have found a brown dwarf transferring mass onto a small star in an 87-min orbit, showing that substellar objects can be gradually consumed over potentially billions of years, rather than swallowed whole.

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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Transposable elements mobilize within and occasionally between genomes, including from host to virus. We identified two insertions of the human BC200 noncoding RNA gene in the poxvirus molluscum conta...

Retrotransposons can infect neighboring cells using a mechanism that relies on a small fusogen-like protein rather than on the envelope protein that is typically required for infection.

Genomic inversions spanning many genes can persist for millions of years. This study of Trinidadian guppy populations reveals how both ecological conditions and mate choice help maintain this hidden l...

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

Cavanaugh et al. show that embryos from aged mice have increased contractility and tissue viscosity on embryonic day 4.5, which leads to poor spreading and attachment. Similar age-associated mechanica...

Complete, haplotype-resolved genome assemblies have provided unprecedented insight into the evolution of structurally complex, rapidly evolving regions of human genomes; however, population-scale pang...

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Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.

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