What can whiskers tell us about mammalian evolution, behaviour, and ecology?

What can whole genome expression data tell us about the ecology and evolution of personality?

Consistent individual differences in behaviour, aka personality, pose several evolutionary questions. For example, it is difficult to explain within-individual consistency in behaviour because behavioural plasticity is often advantageous. In addition, selection erodes heritable behavioural variation that is related to fitness, therefore we wish to know the mechanisms that can maintain between-i...

What Vowels Can Tell Us about the Evolution of Music

Whether music and language evolved independently of each other or whether both evolved from a common precursor remains a hotly debated topic. We here emphasize the role of vowels in the language-music relationship, arguing for a shared heritage of music and speech. Vowels play a decisive role in generating the sound or sonority of syllables, the main vehicles for transporting prosodic informati...

What Evolution Can Tell Us about Protein-dna Inter- Actions

1. { Introduction Protein-DNA interactions are central for regulation of gene expression in the cell. Much progress has been made since the rst DNA-binding protein has been isolated 1]. The highest resolution picture of protein-DNA interactions is coming from more than 200 X-ray and NMR solved structures of protein DNA-complexes 2]. As this information was accumulated, structures have been thor...

Inositide evolution: what can it tell us about functions?

What can proteomics tell us about platelets?

More than 130 years ago, it was recognized that platelets are key mediators of hemostasis. Nowadays, it is established that platelets participate in additional physiological processes and contribute to the genesis and progression of cardiovascular diseases. Recent data indicate that the platelet proteome, defined as the complete set of expressed proteins, comprises >5000 proteins and is highly ...