In this perspective, Isabelle Cote and Emily Darling argue that managing local disturbances, for example by establishing marine reserves, may reduce rather than increase coral reef resilience to climate change impacts.
Genome-wide comparisons of shared retroposon insertion patterns resolve the phylogeny of marsupials, clearly distinguishing South American and Australian species and lending support to Didelphimorphia as the basal split. Read more in this synopsis about Nilsson and colleagues' study.
Structural and biophysical studies reveal how CaMKII kinases, which are important for cellular learning and memory, are switched on by binding of Ca2+/calmodulin, as explained in this synopsis about the Rellos et al. study.
This synopsis describes research by Leu and colleagues that shows how incompatibility between nuclear and mitochondrial genomes in yeast species may represent a general mechanism of reproductive isolation during yeast evolution.
Directional control of bacterial motility is regulated by dynamic polarity inversions driven by pole-to-pole oscillation of a Ras family small G-protein and its associated GTPase-activating protein, as explained in this synopsis describing research by Zhang et al.
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