SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Generating genome sequence data from six additional C. psl. strains that differed markedly in the size of their genomes ...

Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis—a species endemic to the Canary Islands—has reduced the size of its ...

An international study has shown how and when entirely new gene mutations, known as de novo mutations, originate in dogs. A ...

Scientists built a complete wheat gene map showing how different genes control plant growth and stress response.

Before cells can divide, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can ...

When red devil spiders ventured down the Atlantic and arrived on the Canary Islands, their genome dramatically shrank and ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Your DNA contains millions of genetic variants that interact with each other in ways that affect whether diseases such as ...

Scientists in Helsinki studied nearly 400 dog families to see how new DNA mutations arise in puppies. They found that older ...

Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...