evolution, genetics & genomics

Researchers find genome-wide evidence of convergent evolution between bats and dolphins.

Two genomic studies place the divergence of men from their most recent common ancestor nearer in time to that of women, though the field is far from a consensus.

By sequencing the genome of a 700,000-year-old horse, researchers have pushed back the time of DNA survival by almost an order of magnitude.

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.

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.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

Today’s tulip trees carry similar mitochondrial DNA as those that grew in the time of the dinosaurs.

Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.

As wolves became domesticated, their genes adapted to a starch-rich diet of human leftovers.

The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.

Epigenetic changes accrued over an organism’s lifetime may leave a permanent heritable mark on the genome, through the help of long noncoding RNAs.

The root system of a tree species is genetically different than the leaves of that individual, potentially modifying scientists’ understanding of evolution.

A new study finds that an Alaskan population of the fish has quickly evolved in response to warming temperatures.

Human-specific duplications of a gene involved in brain development may have contributed to our species’ unique intelligence.

Inspired by Darwin, Mohamed Noor has uncovered the molecular dance by which a single species becomes two.

A genomic analysis reveals a crucial detail in drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite that are on the move in Southeast Asia.

Meet the species whose DNA has recently been sequenced.

Research in yeast shows that aneuploidy is both a consequence of and an adaptation to stress.