Illustration of the reorganization of jaw muscles and the skull following an increase in brain size during bird evolution. The avian skull underwent significant modifications during the evolution of ...

We thank Xiaoju Li, Haiyan Yu, Xiaomin Zhao, and Sen Wang from Core Facilities for Life and Environmental Sciences of Shandong University for their assistance in X-ray diffraction. We also thank the ...

In the spring of 2022, the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Creek fire burned over 300,000 acres in New Mexico (1), including terrain near the Rio Gallinas School for Ecology and the Arts in Las Vegas, New Mexico ...

P. I. Fields, R. V. Swanson, C. G. Haidaris, F. Heffron, Mutants of Salmonella typhimurium that cannot survive within the macrophage are avirulent. Proc. Natl. Acad ...

S. von Bülow, G. Tesei, F. K. Zaidi, T. Mittag, K. Lindorff-Larsen, Prediction of phase-separation propensities of disordered proteins from sequence. Zenodo. https ...

Edited by Scott Hultgren, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; received March 7, 2024; accepted January 27, 2025 ...

What environments even harbor enough testosterone to support bacterial growth? Testosterone and related steroid hormones occur in the effluent of municipal wastewater treatment plants at ...

Edited by Lily Jan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute–University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; received August 17, 2024; accepted March 3, 2025 ...

Edited by Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; received November 27, 2024; accepted February 21, 2025 ...

The authors note that Fig. 3 appeared incorrectly. The six panels are labeled incorrectly. The labels A–F should increase row-wise, not column-wise. The corrected figure appears below. The online ...

The long-distance dispersal of organisms across oceans to distant islands can result in the evolution of new species lineages. The origin of critically endangered iguanas on the South Pacific islands ...

Contributed by Jian-Kang Zhu; received November 8, 2024; accepted March 7, 2025; reviewed by Cao Xu and Ramin Yadegari ...