A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Scientists uncovered how whole-genome duplication emerges and remains stable over thousands of generations of evolution in the lab. Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

The discovery challenges the popular belief that mammoths crossed into North America from Siberia in the last 100,000 years, said Love Dalén, a professor of evolutionary genomics at Stockholm ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Chitons overcome evolutionary constraints through unprecedented genomic dynamism, with extensive chromosomal rearrangements and duplications despite about 300 million years of morphological stasis.

Lauraceae, a globally significant woody plant family, encompasses ecologically critical and economically valuable species ...

Scientists have long known that whole-genome duplication (WGD)—the process by which organisms copy all their genetic material—plays an important role in evolution. But understanding just how ...