The marine bristleworm Platynereis dumerilii. Picture of a mature female. Credit: Florian Raible A ring of light-responsive stem cells helps bristleworms continually expand their eyes, offering an ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult marine bristleworms continue to grow throughout life – driven by a ring of ...

On a typical day in logistics operations across America, the choreography of moving goods remains stubbornly analog. Emails ping back and forth, phones ring constantly, and printers churn out ...

Cichlid fishes have attracted attention from a wide range of biologists because of their extensive species diversification at the ecological and phenotypic levels. In this important study, the authors ...

The phenomenon of parallel evolution, whereby similar genomic and phenotypic changes occur across replicated pairs of populations or species, is widely studied. Nevertheless, the determining factors ...

Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Hybrid Luminescent Materials and Photonic Device, MOE Key Laboratory of Material Physics and Chemistry under ...

Abstract: Parallel processing has emerged as a key enabling technology in modern computing. Recent software advances have allowed collections of heterogeneous computers to be used as a concurrent ...

Parallel evolution is common in nature and provides one of the most compelling examples of rapid environmental adaptation. In contrast to the recent burst of studies addressing genomic basis of ...