Although pairwise interactions have always had a key role in ecology and evolutionary
biology, the recent increase in the amount and availability of biological data has placed a new …

The Dog Aging Project is a long-term longitudinal study of ageing in tens of thousands of
companion dogs. The domestic dog is among the most variable mammal species in terms of …

Studies of the basic biology of aging have identified several genetic and pharmacological
interventions that appear to modulate the rate of aging in laboratory model organisms, but a …

Recent comparative studies point to the importance of mortality schedules as determinants
in the evolution of life‐history characteristics. In this paper, we compare patterns of mortality …

Models of sexual selection typically assume a cost to the production and maintenance of
sexually selected traits. However, within a population, individuals of high phenotypic quality …

A novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, emerged in December 2019, leading within a few months
to a global pandemic. COVID-19, the disease caused by this highly contagious virus, can …

Here, I use published mortality data from 56 natural populations of mammals to examine
evidence for senescence, an increase in the probability of mortality with age. Data on extent of …

Sexually selected traits provide a mating advantage to the bearer but they should also exact
a cost through natural selection. Whereas the mating benefits from such traits have been …

We compiled information from the literature on the taxonomic distributions in extant teleost
fishes of alternative sex-determination systems: male-heterogametic (XY) gonochorism, …

Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most widely used model systems in biology. However,
little is known about its associated bacterial community. As a first step towards …