Members of fisheries cooperative associations have leveraged smart technologies to farm triploid oysters at Fukue Bay in ...

A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery-how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance.

Randomness favours the worm becoming free because its head can move in many ways that will help to propel it forwards, but only one that would push it backwards. Because of the intrinsically random ...

Reconstructing the origin of cultivated plants often represents a real puzzle for scientists. Indeed, many species, like wheat or precisely the strawberry, possess genomes resulting from the ...

For sexual reproduction to yield healthy offspring, newly generated oocytes—immature egg cells—must receive the correct amount of DNA after cell division. This process of segregating chromosomes ...

A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life ...

The cloudberry, a popular northern dessert berry, reveals a surprising genetic origin after a study deciphers its complex evolution.

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why.

The Trojan male method relies on genetics to collapse invasive populations. Unlike wild males that have one X and one Y chromosome, these specially bred fish have two Y chromosomes.

Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome ...

Researchers used molecular signatures in mobile DNA to trace the evolutionary origins of the cultivated strawberry genome.

We expect butterflies to be both beautiful and symmetrical; however, some are not. Gynandromorphism is estimated to occur in ...