Intestivirids (order Crassvirales, family Intestiviridae ), viruses that infect Bacteroidales bacteria in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract, have been identified as a highly abundant component of the healthy human virome that may shape patterns of human health and disease through direct action on the microbiome. While double‐stranded DNA bacteriophages called crAssphages ( Carjivirus communis ) that infect bacteria in the B...

Mammalian species with slow life histories invest heavily in offspring care to meet offspring nutritional and developmental requirements, typically at significant costs to mothers. While maternal care has been extensively studied, understanding the mechanisms driving variation in mother‒offspring relationships during key offspring developmental periods require more comparative data from natural populations. Using eight years o...

Sexual selection theory suggests that choice for partners carrying dissimilar genes at the major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) may play a role in maintaining genetic variation in animal populations by limiting inbreeding or improving the immunity of future offspring. However, it is often difficult to establish whether the observed MHC dissimilarity among mates drives mate choice or represents a by‐product of inbreeding av...