Every crisp is unique and thanks to variation, every organism is unique too. Due to genetic and environmental factors, members of the same species will have different characteristics or variation.

And what effect do fluctuations in genetic variation have on populations over time? When a population interbreeds, nonrandom mating can sometimes occur because one organism chooses to mate with ...

And at least in some environments, that variation must give a competitive edge over asexual organisms that can spread their genes efficiently, but vary little from one generation to the next.

The changes and variations in genetic code that occur over time are referred to as "molecular evolution." The molecular evolution of an organism can be very different from its morphological (body ...

Enzymes can be used to remove glow in the dark genes from jellyfish DNA which can then be inserted into another organism’s DNA, namely a cat. The potential use of the technology is then ...

But what can armadillos teach us about being an individual? One way to examine the role of the environment in variation among organisms is to compare the phenotypes of various traits in ...

These organisms are also successful models because of their versatility ... including sexual divergence, genetic variation, social and environmental influences on development, and bacterial infection ...

The broad aim of our research is to understand the processes and the underlying genetic mechanisms that shape intraspecific life history variation in the wild. Most of our research focuses on ...