Genetics News

May 29, 2015 by News Staff

A new genomic analysis of people currently living in Egypt and Ethiopia suggests that Eurasians originated when early Africans moved north – through the region that is now Egypt – to expand into the rest of the world. The findings answer a long-standing question as to whether early humans emerged from Africa by a route via Egypt, or via Ethiopia. Genetic information from Ethiopians and Egyptians point to a Northern exit out of Africa as...

May 25, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists, co-led by Dr Carlos Alonso-Blanco of the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología in Spain and Dr Sureshkumar Balasubramanian of Monash...

May 22, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the Swedish Museum of Natural History and elsewhere sequenced and analyzed the draft genome of a 35,000-year-old wolf from the...

Apr 24, 2015 by News Staff

Genetic researchers have sequenced and analyzed the complete genomes of two key bumblebee species – the European buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)...

Apr 23, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists from the United States, Sweden, Canada, and the UK, has sequenced and analyzed the complete high-quality genomes of two woolly mammoths...

Apr 9, 2015 by News Staff

A team of genetic scientists, co-led by Dr Chris Tyler-Smith of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Dr Aylwyn Scally of the University of Cambridge,...

Mar 20, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by Dr Eduard Akhunov of Kansas State University has created the first haplotype map of wheat that provides detailed...

Mar 19, 2015 by News Staff

In a new study published in the journal Nature, scientists used DNA samples collected from 2,039 people to create the fine-scale genetic map of British...

Mar 17, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists behind a new study published in the journal ZooKeys reject a recent claim that a yet-to-be-discovered species of Himalayan bear may be the source...

Mar 13, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution provides more support for the hypothesis that modern Japanese are an admixed population...

Mar 9, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study reported in the journal European Journal of Human Genetics, millions of modern Asian men are descended from eleven dynastic leaders,...

Feb 27, 2015 by News Staff

A gene that is responsible for brain size in modern Homo sapiens and their ancient relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, has been identified by a team...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

According to a group of genetic scientists led by Prof Victor Albert of the University at Buffalo, the carnivorous plant Utricularia gibba, commonly known...

Feb 12, 2015 by News Staff

Darwin’s finches, also known as the Galápagos finches, constitute an iconic model for studies of speciation and adaptive evolution. An international...

Jan 28, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Australia has discovered that a species of blind water beetle called Limbodessus palmulaoides – living underground for millions...

Jan 15, 2015 by News Staff

Australian researchers have managed to extract DNA from two extinct marsupials: a giant short-faced kangaroo (Simosthenurus occidentalis) and a giant wallaby...

Jan 9, 2015 by News Staff

Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) arrived in the Americas only about 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed the Bering...

Jan 6, 2015 by News Staff

A team of genetic researchers headed by Dr Joao Pedro de Magalhaes from the University of Liverpool, UK, has sequenced the genome of the mysterious bowhead...

Dec 15, 2014 by News Staff

A group of genetic researchers led by Prof Mark Springer from Montclair State University has found that teeth were lost in the common ancestor of all living...

Dec 12, 2014 by News Staff

In an ambitious four-year genetic study on bird evolution, an international consortium of more than 200 scientists from 80 institutions across 20 countries...