In PLOS Biology this week you can read about the division of labour between germ cells and soma, the use of RNA…

Humans have an odd attitude to genitalia. Indeed, more than 90% of you are reading this blog post merely because I put…

In PLOS Biology this week you can read research articles about dinosaurs, DNA repair, TNFα and neural crest cell migration. We also have…

In PLOS Biology this week you can read about a new General Ecosystem Model for predicting the effects of human activities, a…

In PLOS Biology this week you can read about saving the world’s fish stocks, the intricacies of insect flight, non-human drumming, a…

How did we first acquire the limbs that allowed us to crawl onto dry land? Could the fins of our fishy ancestors…

Survival of the fittest is a concept that is well known to most of us. Heaven knows, many of us strive to…

The bony fishes are one of the success stories of life on planet earth, diverse in shape and habit, and thriving in…

Recent advances in sequencing technology have brought us the complexity of microbial metagenomes from oceans, soils and guts. These massive datasets of…

Editor’s note: PLOS Biology is delighted to post this ode to nature on behalf of PLOS cofounder Mike Eisen. My daughter has…

One of the iconic metaphors of evolution is that of the ‘tree of life’ – it is the image we all have…

In our latest PLOS Biology Roundup, we offer you a taste of the range of topics covered in our recently published articles…