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PLOS Biology is home to high quality, original research with a broad scope across the biological sciences. We empower authors to share and get credit for their work and offer publishing options that boost the visibility of your science.

Sex and suicide: The curious case of Toll-like receptors

Paulo A. Navarro-Costa, Antoine Molaro, Chandra S. Misra, Colin D. Meiklejohn, Peter J. Ellis

UNSOLVED MYSTERY


Why and when was lactase persistence selected for? Insights from Central Asian herders and ancient DNA

Laure Segurel, Perle Guarino-Vignon, Nina Marchi, Sophie Lafosse, Romain Laurent, et al

UNSOLVED MYSTERY


Recombination rate variation shapes barriers to introgression across butterfly genomes

Simon H. Martin, John W. Davey, Camilo Salazar, Chris D. Jiggins
RESEARCH ARTICLE


Evolutionary dynamics of bacteria in the gut microbiome within and across hosts

Nandita R. Garud, Benjamin H. Good, Oskar Hallatschek, Katherine S. Pollard

RESEARCH ARTICLE


Genetic redundancy fuels polygenic adaptation in Drosophila

Neda Barghi, Raymond Tobler, Viola Nolte, Ana Marija Jakšić, François Mallard, Kathrin Anna Otte, et al
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Whole-chromosome hitchhiking driven by a male-killing endosymbiont
Simon H. Martin, Kumar Saurabh Singh, Ian J. Gordon, Kennedy Saitoti Omufwoko, Steve Collins, et al
SHORT REPORT
Published peer review history

Extensive loss of cell-cycle and DNA repair genes in an ancient lineage of bipolar budding yeasts
Jacob L. Steenwyk, Dana A. Opulente, Jacek Kominek, Xing-Xing Shen, Xiaofan Zhou, et al
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Nonia Pariente


LOOKING AHEAD

The future of PLOS Biology

Nonia Pariente, on behalf of the PLOS Biology Staff Editors

Editorial

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