The origin of baleen whales (Mysticeti), the largest animals on Earth, is closely tied to their signature filter-feeding strategy. Unlike their modern relatives, archaic whales possessed a well-develo
Global warming appears to favour smaller-bodied organisms, but whether larger species are also more vulnerable to thermal extremes, as suggested for past mass-extinction events, is still an open quest
The chromosomal passenger complex (CPC) - composed of Aurora B kinase, Borealin, Survivin and INCENP - surveys the fidelity of genome segregation throughout cell division. The CPC has been proposed to
