A global infestation of bed bugs after World War II was nearly eradicated in the 1950s with the use of the pesticide dichloro ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its ...

Scientists have uncovered more than 20 genes whose mutations cause familial forms of Parkinson's disease. One of these genes ...

or is it driven by one or a few mutations that cause major changes in traits. Chromosomal rearrangements where large chunks of chromosomes are inverted, moved, deleted or duplicated, provide a ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...

A mutation is any detectable and heritable change in nucleotide sequence that causes a change in genotype and is transmitted to daughter cells and succeeding generations. Tools for diversifying ...

Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number of ways: somatic mutations can contribute to the germ line more easily as flowers develop at the end of branches composed of somatic cells ...

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer ...

Because males possess only one X chromosome, a mutation in this single copy is sufficient to create the disorder. Females, possessing two X chromosomes, are typically carriers; they can be ...