Genome project opens the next chapter for studying bat evolution

Pangenomic evolutionary possibilities for Darwin's abominable mystery.

Telomere-to-telomere pangenomes reveal a previously undersampled layer of genome evolution that may help explain rapid plant diversification vis-à-vis Darwin's abominable mystery.

Mitochondria before we knew them.

In this issue of Cell, Chen et al. chart mitochondrial proteome diversity across eukaryotes, revealing an unexpectedly complex ancestral proteome alongside extensive lineage-specific innovation. Their broad phylogenetic reconstruction provides new insights into the mitochondrial proteome of the last eukaryotic common a...

Ancient vocabulary for evolving cells

Fourteen complete genomes of nematode-mutualistic Xenorhabdus bacteria reveal their high polylysogeny

ABSTRACT Here, we report complete genome assemblies of 14 Xenorhabdus bacterial strains, previously isolated from their symbiotic Steinernema nematode hosts. These complete genomes enabled identification of complete prophage/phage-like loci that average eight per genome, indicative of high polylysogeny among Xenorhabdu...

Bioinformatics for human long-read whole genome sequencing

Special Issue “Molecular Insights into Zoology”

Zoology has entered an era in which molecular approaches are no longer ancillary tools, but central components to grasp animal diversity, evolution, physiology, adaptation, and conservation [...].