Policies ensuring that research data are available on public archives are increasingly being
implemented at the government [1], funding agency [2–4], and journal [5, 6] level. These …

Funding agencies in North America and Europe are recognizing the importance of the
integration of sex differences into basic and clinical research. Although these mandates are in …

The distribution of effect sizes of genes underlying adaptation is unknown ( Orr 2005 ). Are
suites of traits that diverged under natural selection controlled by a few pleiotropic genes of …

Background The vaginal microbial community plays a vital role in maintaining women’s
health. Understanding the precise bacterial composition is challenging because of the diverse …

Background Symptoms of anxiety are common among pregnant and postpartum women,
and 15%‐20% of pregnancies are affected by medical complications. Despite this, little is …

The vaginal microbiota is important in women’s reproductive and overall health. However,
the relationships between the structure, function and dynamics of this complex microbial …

Objective To characterize the vaginal microbiota of women following preterm premature
rupture of membranes (PPROM), and determine if microbiome composition predicts latency …

Hybrid incompatibilities occur when interactions between opposite ancestry alleles at different
loci reduce the fitness of hybrids. Most work on incompatibilities has focused on those that …

Sexual selection is a potent evolutionary force. However, very few models have considered
the evolution of female preferences for traits expressed in both sexes. Here we explore how …

Background Males and females may experience different effects of early-life adversity on life-long
health. One hypothesis is that male foetuses invest more in foetal growth and relatively …