We improve the taxon sampling for avian phylogeny by analyzing 7 new mitochondrial
genomes (a toucan, woodpecker, osprey, forest falcon, American kestrel, heron, and a pelican). …

Predicting survival and extinction scenarios for climate change requires an understanding of
the present day ecological characteristics of species and future available habitats, but also …

Bluehead wrasses undergo dramatic, socially cued female-to-male sex change. We apply
transcriptomic and methylome approaches in this wild coral reef fish to identify the primary …

Background Understanding the micro-evolutionary response of populations to demographic
declines is a major goal in evolutionary and conservation biology. In small populations, …

Background Evolutionary biologists are often misled by convergence of morphology and this
has been common in the study of bird evolution. However, the use of molecular data sets …

The Phoenicians emerged in the Northern Levant around 1800 BCE and by the 9 th century
BCE had spread their culture across the Mediterranean Basin, establishing trading posts, …

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health threat, infecting one-third of the world's population.
Despite this prominence, the age, origin and spread of the disease have been topics of …

TET (ten-eleven translocation) enzymes catalyze the oxidation of 5-methylcytosine bases in
DNA, thus driving active and passive DNA demethylation. Here, we report that the catalytic …

The inverted triangle shape of South America places Argentina territory as a geographical
crossroads between the two principal peopling streams that followed either the Pacific or the …

While Phoenician culture and trade networks had a significant impact on Western civilizations,
we know little about the Phoenicians themselves. In 1994, a Punic burial crypt was …