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

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Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

An international collaboration between four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Evolutionary genetics is the study of how genetic variation leads to evolutionary change. It includes topics such as the evolution of genome structure, the genetic basis of speciation and ...

From this trove of genetic information, researchers have already identified dozens of examples of relatively recent evolution. Anatomically modern humans migrated from Africa sometime between ...

Of course, different genetic systems react differently to ... A single mutation can have a large effect, but in many cases, evolutionary change is based on the accumulation of many mutations ...

A study has constructed an unprecedented pangenome map of wild and cultivated rice, and decoded the genetic architecture and ...

The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a ...

The ecology and evolutionary biology (EBIO) graduate program provides advanced training in a wide variety of biological disciplines ranging from biogeochemistry to community ecology to evolutionary ...

If true, this would call into question decades of assumptions about molecular evolution. “The genetic code is nearly optimal for numerous functions,” said Joanna Masel, the paper’s senior ...