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Amphibians, reptiles, and birds engage pyroptosis using caspase-1 and GSDMA, filling an evolutionary gap in which caspase-1 cleaves GSDME in fish and GSDMD in mammals.

Comparative neuroimaging quantifies the congruence of regional neuroanatomical sex differences between humans and mice.

Functional divergence of caspase 3 and 7 in vertebrate is mediated by key residue mutation.

SNP-editing of human embryonic stem cells reveals cell type specific function of a genetic variant associated with changes in human jaw shape.

Variation in the rate of alternative splicing across animals are mainly driven by differences in the rate of splicing errors.

An integrative approach allows investigations of the relationship between an initial plasticity and the subsequent adaptive evolution during rapid adaptive modification of complex systems in the wild.

A new high-resolution approach to probing tooth chemistry shows real potential to uncover changing rainfall patterns and environmental conditions during human prehistory.

A new mathematical model that can be applied to both single-cell and bulk DNA sequencing data sheds light on the processes governing population dynamics in stem cells.

Physical interactions are a minor contributor to the correlations in evolutionary rate over time that are observed between co-functional proteins.

Germline mutation rates in mice are shaped by two mutator alleles that interact epistatically, showing that DNA repair defects that map to different loci can have snowballing effects.