Pengfei Liu, Montserrat Rojo de la Vega, Saad Sammani, Joseph B. Mascarenhas, Michael Kerins, Matthew Dodson, Xiaoguang Sun, Ting Wang, Aikseng Ooi, Joe G. N. Garcia, and Donna D. Zhang
Vijay Pandey, Baocheng Wang, Chakrabhavi Dhananjaya Mohan, Ainiah Rushdiana Raquib, Shobith Rangappa, Venkatachalaiah Srinivasa, Julian E. Fuchs, Kesturu S. Girish, Tao Zhu, Andreas Bender, Lan Ma, Zhinan Yin, Basappa, Kanchugarakoppal S. Rangappa, and Peter E. Lobie
Madeline Y. Wong, Kenny Chen, Aristotelis Antonopoulos, Brian T. Kasper, Mahender B. Dewal, Rebecca J. Taylor, Charles A. Whittaker, Pyae P. Hein, Anne Dell, Joseph C. Genereux, Stuart M. Haslam, Lara K. Mahal, and Matthew D. Shoulders
Kirsten M. Knecht, Olga Buzovetsky, Constanze Schneider, Dominique Thomas, Vishok Srikanth, Lars Kaderali, Florentina Tofoleanu, Krystle Reiss, Nerea Ferreirós, Gerd Geisslinger, Victor S. Batista, Xiaoyun Ji, Jindrich Cinatl Jr., Oliver T. Keppler, and Yong Xiong
Yuki Weber, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Jakob Zopfi, Cindy De Jonge, Adrian Gilli, Carsten J. Schubert, Fabio Lepori, Moritz F. Lehmann, and Helge Niemann
Franziska Mende, Cecilie Hundahl, Bianca Plouffe, Louise Julie Skov, Bjørn Sivertsen, Andreas Nygaard Madsen, Michael Lückmann, Thi Ai Diep, Stefan Offermanns, Thomas Michael Frimurer, Michel Bouvier, and Birgitte Holst
Researchers report a species of early bird with a combination of bird-like and dinosaur-like bone morphologies, and the structure of the bird’s shoulder girdle highlights the role of developmental plasticity in the early evolution of birds, according to the authors.
A study suggests that the herbicide glyphosate disrupts bee gut microbiota, increasing bees’ susceptibility to pathogens, and that glyphosate’s effects may contribute to the largely unexplained increase in honey bee colony mortality.
Image courtesy of Vivian Abagiu (The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX).
A study finds that a fragment of an ancient retrovirus, integrated in human ancestors before the emergence of Neanderthals, is found more frequently in people who contracted HIV and hepatitis C through intravenous drug use, compared with control populations.