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by Simon Martin, Richard Merrill and Chris Jiggins NOTE: This blog post has been substantially abridged and edited by PLOS Biologue. For the full-length text, please see Heliconius.org. This month, we published
by Gert Wörheide Much of the world’s biodiversity to have evolved over the last 600+ million years of the Earth’s history is composed of animals, and by far the greatest evolutionary diversity of
by Harmit Malik Even before John Maynard Smith formalized the term, evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by major evolutionary transitions, including the transition from single-celled to multicellular organisms. Multicellularity occurs over and over
by Andrew Read Yale professor Steve Stearns once warned that the transition from Young Turk to Old Turkey happens quickly. He was right. Being an Old Turkey has challenges, not least that you
The year is flying past, and July has been another month with several of our papers making the news. This month we’re covering sleeping flies, the tree shrew’s penchant for spice, how people can
June has been a busy month at PLOS Biology and this month we’ve covered a whole spectrum of Biology from flying spiders, to getting your caffeine fix, regretful mice, long bone growth, and
March has been a bumper month at PLOS Biology with lots of research hitting the press. A selection of our top picks this month include papers on flying reptiles, electric fish, e-cigarette toxicity, obesity
PLOS Biology has something for everyone this month with a wide range of biological research hitting the press. February saw studies on customising plant microbiomes, gesturing primates, sensing health, reproducing animal studies, and conserving
Welcome to the first PLOS Biology media blog of 2018! We’re starting the year with a bang, with research on marine food web collapse, global flower-power, ancient Scandinavians, hot mitochondria, and musculoskeletal networks.
We’re taking a look back at the articles that have made a splash in the last 12 months, both in terms of media coverage and article views. These are just some of our favourites