Genome evolution

Extensive loss of cell-cycle and DNA repair genes in an ancient lineage of bipolar budding yeasts

by Jacob L. Steenwyk, Dana A. Opulente, Jacek Kominek, Xing-Xing Shen, Xiaofan Zhou, Abigail L. Labella, Noah P. Bradley, Brandt F. Eichman, Neža Čadež, Diego Libkind, Jeremy DeVirgilio, Amanda Beth...

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Broadening the scope of <i>PLOS Biology</i>: Short Reports and Methods & Resources

by The PLOS Biology Staff Editors This Editorial discusses the creation of two new scope-broadening article types for PLOS Biology — Methods & Resources articles and Short Reports — acknowledging...

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Contingency in the convergent evolution of a regulatory network: Dosage compensation in <i>Drosophila</i>

[ad_1] by Chris Ellison, Doris Bachtrog The repeatability or predictability of evolution is a central question in evolutionary biology and most often addressed in experimental evolution studies. Here, we infer...

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