Genome duplication probably gave biodiversity a decisive evolutionary boost. A Chinese-German research team led by Axel Meyer ...

Transposable elements have proliferated in the bacterium Enterococcus faecium, altering its metabolism and genome structure.

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

Wisconsin's journey from wheat fields to 'America's Dairyland' is a story of innovation, adaptation, and economic resilience.

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Liam Lachs, Dr Adriana Humanes and Dr James Guest, discuss how how accelerating evolution ...

Scientists and reef managers are calling for ‘assisted evolution’ to help accelerate coral reef adaptation in the face of ...

Assisted evolution could help corals survive future heatwaves, but careful trait choice and strong repeated selection will be ...

“Rather than being trapped in the present and studying the scars left by selection on the genomes of descendants, ancient DNA ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

The ongoing global climate crisis is characterized by rising mean water temperatures, thermal stress, ocean acidification, and fluctuating dissolved oxygen ...

Another complication is that sustained genetic variation does not emerge exclusively as a result of natural selection.