The current “consensus” order in which amino acids were added to the genetic code is based on potentially biased criteria, such as the absence of s...

Establish and maintain a competitive research program.Teach at the graduate and undergraduate levels and contribute to mentoring students, including t...

Immune cells are under evolutionary pressure due to their anti-infective defence role. Here Salvador-Martínez and Murga-Moreno et al. combine population genetics approaches and Human Cell Atlas data, ...

Establish and maintain a competitive research program.Teach at the graduate and undergraduate levels and contribute to mentoring students, including t...

Life will stand a better chance against climate change if we mix big- and small-picture thinking.

Biologists increasingly rely on computer code to collect and analyze their data, reinforcing the importance of published code for transparency, reproducibility, training, and a basis for further work....

Understanding trait–trait coordination is essential for successful plant breeding and crop modeling. Notably, plant size drives variation in morphological, physiological, and performance-related trai...

Wood density is an important plant trait. Data from 1.1 million forest inventory plots and 10,703 tree species show a latitudinal gradient in wood density, with temperature and soil moisture explainin...

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition reduces nitrogen-fixing plant diversity, but nitrogen-fixer losses are context dependent.

The rich species diversity of bats encompasses extraordinary adaptations, including extreme longevity and tolerance to infectious disease. While traditional approaches using genetic screens in model o...

Proteins evolve more intrinsic structural disorder under more effective selection, with selection assessed via a novel metric of codon adaptation.

A longstanding question in plant evolution is why ferns have many more chromosomes than angiosperms. The leading hypothesis proposes that ferns have ancient polyploidy without chromosome loss or gene ...

Natural populations are increasingly at risk of extinction due to climate change and habitat loss and fragmentation. The long-term viability of small populations can be threatened by an extinction vor...

With over one million species currently at risk of extinction due to climate change and human activity, the CAMBIUM NRT program will serve as a hub for educating students to work across disciplines, p...

Postdoc position: amino acid substitution models A postdoc position is available with PI Joanna Masel (https://www.masellab.org/) at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Tucson is a vibrant city of n...