The construction of a digital brain; an evolutionary context to the microbiome; biologists hacking genomes – to begin 2018, the editors of BMC Biology have assembled a selection of their favourite articles published in 2017.
Eye colour in wild species tends to be fixed, whereas humans and domesticated animals show multiple eye colours. Dr Juan J. Negro, lead author of a recent hypothesis published in Frontiers in Zoology, takes us through why this might be.
Studying human behavior in a laboratory is challenging, and rodents often must suffice as a model in experimental tests. New research in BMC Biology presents an experimental set-up using virtual reality to better understand real human behavior. In this blog, Johannes Fuß, lead author of the study, explains how.