Scientists discover gene behind an inherited muscle disorder by studying zebrafish embryos.
Scientists discover gene behind an inherited muscle disorder by studying zebrafish embryos.
Highways and byways are among the man-made environmental alterations driving the evolution of animals on contemporary timescales, with implications for ecology.
Raising one evolutionary question after another, Brandon Gaut has harvested a crop of novel findings about how plant genomes evolve.
Yale University evolutionary biologist Steven Brady studies the evolutionary impacts of roads on the amphibians.
Despite cicadas’ high profile, scientists still don’t fully understand when and why they decide it is time to mate.
A sequencing study suggests that some genes have evolved in parallel in humans and their canine companions, likely as a result of shared selection pressures.
Two new fossils of ancient primates shed light on the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys.
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
As telomeres shorten with age, genes as far as 1,000 kilobases away could be affected, including one responsible for an inherited muscle disease.
In Chapter 4, “Darwin’s Barnacles, Agassiz’s Jellyfish,” author Christoph Irmscher describes his subject’s obsession with marine organisms.