Heritable variation in fitness is the fuel of adaptive evolution, and sex can generate new adaptive combinations of alleles. If the generation of beneficial combinations drives the evolution of ...

Functional genomics strategies can complement traditional genetic approaches to identifying genes underlying complex behavioral traits. In an Advanced Online Publication in Nature Genetics Toma et al.

Many higher animals have evolved the ability to use the Earth’s magnetic field, particularly for orientation. Drosophila melanogaster also respond to electromagnetic fields (EMFs), although the ...