Microbe Magazine

Cover: Stone-age cave paintings from the Chauvet Cave, France, which have been dated to between 32,900 and 30,000 years ago. Accumulating evidence of damage to cave paintings by fungi has lead to many such caves, Chauvet among them, being closed to visitors (see p. 102). (Image © Javier Trueba/MF/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
Cover: Stone-age cave paintings from the Chauvet Cave, France, which have been dated to between 32,900 and 30,000 years ago. Accumulating evidence of damage to cave paintings by fungi has lead to many such caves, Chauvet among them, being closed to visitors (see p. 102). (Image © Javier Trueba/MF/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
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Conflict and Cooperation amid Host-Parasitoid Interactions
The presence of heritable morphs, or heritable phenotypic variants, within populations enables those populations to evolve. Hence, if one morph is more adapted to the local environment, then a selective process favoring that morph ultimately should lead all members of the population to display th...
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New Genes Arise via Innovation, Amplification, Divergence
Discussions about the origins of genes and how they diversify go back at least 80 years. Today it is thought that an organism can acquire new genes in at least three distinct ways. According to the earliest models, described by the biologists Haldane, Bridges, and Muller in the 1930s, new genes m...
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