Multinucleate cells - single cells containing multiple nuclei in a shared cytoplasm - are found across the eukaryotic tree of life. Having evolved independently in fungi, plants, protists, and animals...
The hagfish eye is highly reduced, lacking pigment and a lens, and covered by soft tissue. The timing and mode of this loss of complexity remain unknown. Here, we present high-resolution anatomical da...
Polyploidy is rare in animals, where it is often associated with unusual modes of reproduction. Here we use phased exon capture data to identify ploidy and investigate the subgenome composition of fou...
Cyclothone (bristlemouths) is considered the most numerically abundant genus of fish in the world and primarily inhabits the mesopelagic and bathypelagic ocean zones. Cyclothone body fossils date to t...