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The evolution of sex remains one of biology's greatest puzzles. While sexual reproduction dominates across the animal kingdom ...

New research from Queen Mary University of London shows how extreme seasonal patterns are causing rainforest butterflies to ...

A research group found that in female fruit flies, microorganisms enhance reproductive function, boosting the number of cells that form eggs and the number of mature eggs. This is done by controlling ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Further analysis of PifA and PifB revealed that they exhibit many of the characteristics of eukaryotic host-associated ...