In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Ary Hoffmann explains how they found a Wolbachia strain that caused all-female offspring in infected flies…
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Behind the paper Behind the paper: A bacteria strain that kills males and its co-evolution with its host
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Biology Ape Research Index (ARI): Quantifying the effect of previous experience in research tasks on cognitive skills in captive chimpanzees
Finalists from the 2022 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research discuss The Ape Research Index. Note: PLOS is delighted to…
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Behind the paper Behind the paper: ecosystem evolution of the first animals
In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Emily Mitchell discusses the value of getting undergraduate students involved in research projects. Our new…
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Biology Speciation: a Few Big Genes or Many Little Ones?
by Simon Martin, Richard Merrill and Chris Jiggins NOTE: This blog post has been substantially abridged and edited by PLOS…
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Announcement The GIGA Collection: Invertebrates Galore!
by Gert Wörheide Much of the world’s biodiversity to have evolved over the last 600+ million years of the Earth’s…
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Biology The XV Collection: Living l’AVIDA loca — origins of multicellularity
by Harmit Malik Even before John Maynard Smith formalized the term, evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by major evolutionary transitions…
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Biology The XV Collection: Perverse Outcomes of Novel Therapies
by Andrew Read Yale professor Steve Stearns once warned that the transition from Young Turk to Old Turkey happens quickly…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – July
The year is flying past, and July has been another month with several of our papers making the news. This month…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – June
June has been a busy month at PLOS Biology and this month we’ve covered a whole spectrum of Biology from…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – March
March has been a bumper month at PLOS Biology with lots of research hitting the press. A selection of our top…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – February
PLOS Biology has something for everyone this month with a wide range of biological research hitting the press. February saw studies…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – January
Welcome to the first PLOS Biology media blog of 2018! We’re starting the year with a bang, with research on marine…