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.

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 ...

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 ...

However, genetic variation is constantly changing. Different allelic forms of a single gene can appear and disappear from time to time within a single group of organisms. This means that the gene ...

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 ...

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 ...