Manganese (Mn) contamination poses a significant environmental threat, yet the mechanisms underlying its toxicity remain poorly characterised. Here, we used an integrative multi‐omics approach to elucidate how dietary Mn disrupts the gut‐microbiome axis in the silkworm, Bombyx mori . High‐dose Mn exposure triggered severe, dose‐dependent growth retardation, reducing larval weight by 55.1%. This was concurrent with profound gut...

Hybridisation plays a significant role in plant diversification, yet successive hybrid speciation within species‐rich groups remains undocumented. We focused on a monophyletic species complex comprising one subsection, which belongs to the highly diverse genus of Rhododendron centred in the mountains of southwest China. By assembling the genome of one individual and resequencing all populations found, we uncovered four well‐de...