Emergence of polyphagous herbivorous insects entails significant adaptation to recognize,
detoxify and digest a variety of host-plants. Despite of its biological and practical importance - …

The primary problem with the explosion of biomedical datasets is not the data, not computational
resources, and not the required storage space, but the general lack of trained and …

Background The prevailing paradigm of host-parasite evolution is that arms races lead to
increasing specialisation via genetic adaptation. Insect herbivores are no exception and the …

Life sciences are yielding huge data sets that underpin scientific discoveries fundamental to
improvement in human health, agriculture and the environment. In support of these …

Background Although native to North America, the invasion of the aphid-like grape phylloxera
Daktulosphaira vitifoliae across the globe altered the course of grape cultivation. For the …

Endogenous viruses form an important proportion of eukaryote genomes and a source of
novel functions. How large DNA viruses integrated into a genome evolve when they confer a …

To capture the functional diversity of microbiota, one must identify metabolic functions and
species of interest within hundreds or thousands of microorganisms. We present …

Understanding the genetic basis of insecticide resistance is a key topic in agricultural ecology.
The adaptive evolution of multi-copy detoxification genes has been interpreted as a cause …

Background There has been a surge in studies linking genome structure and gene expression,
with special focus on duplicated genes. Although initially duplicated from the same …

There is an ongoing explosion of scientific datasets being generated, brought on by recent
technological advances in many areas of the natural sciences. As a result, the life sciences …