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By considering a new form of social cheat strategy, arms-races-like dynamics between coevolving selfish traits could emerge from the tragedy of the commons and help explain the variations in cheating levels observed in many microbes and eusocial insects.

Environmentally responsive genes evolve under strong selective constraint in Arabidopsis lyrata.

The generation of high-quality little skate reference genome enables molecular mechanism studies of gene regulation.

The activation of defence brain circuits drives decisions to help conspecifics under threat.

As long suspected, poxviruses capture host genes through a reverse-transcription process now shown to be mediated by retrotransposons.

Experimental evolution of yeast models of congenital disorders of glycosylation reveals that reduction, but not loss, of phosphoglucomutase activity best compensates for impaired phosphomannomutase activity.

Across 63 large US cities, street tree communities are shaped by climate, clustered by species, and made more similar between cities due to the presence of introduced species.

Active selfish genetic elements in infected cells aid virus adaptation by catalyzing the transfer of host genes to virus genomes.

The analysis of mass-spectrometry data for all possible open reading frames reveals protein evidence for evolutionarily young, unannotated proteins with distinct characters.

The wtf family of meiotic drivers has maintained the capacity to cause meiotic drive for over 100 million years.