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Abstract. Natural selection might favour brightly coloured males and drab females. A male and a female might disagree about whether to mate. Such tensions

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 ...

Social transmission of microbes has profound impacts on disease epidemiology and host health. However, how social factors influence gut microbiome (GM) transmission in wild populations is not well un...

As everyone knows, large language models (LLMs) have changed the teaching and learning landscape dramatically. Last trimester I changed our MSc Data Analysis in R assessment from coursework to an...

Scientists have learned a great deal about biology from a handful of "model organisms" – animals with unique characteristics that make them excellent for labora…

This volume is Open Access. This volume details protocols for sampling and analysis microbiomes from sites other than the gut.

Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and evolution, we still do not know how widespread data- and ...