A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page. Outgrowth of and selected papers presented at the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, held in September 2015, in Marseille, ...

Northwestern University biophysicists have developed a new computational tool for identifying gene combinations underlying complex illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, and asthma. Unlike single-gene ...