An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis), an economically important crop marketed for the elaboration...
Aquatic, tailed amphibians called newts have large genomes harboring many repeat elements. How these elements shape the genome and relate to newts’ unique...
Asteroid Bennu is thought to be made of rubble fragments from a 4.5-billion-year-old parent body, containing materials that originated beyond Saturn, which...
Paleontologists have found ancient DNA and spores of truffle-like fungi, including at least one colorful species, inside two coprolites of the upland moa...
To study migration and mobility history in the Ukraine region, with a particular focus on migrating groups during the Iron Age and the Medieval period,...
Mycena crocata is a long-known species of fungus frequently reported from Europe and Japan, which was considered non-luminescent until now.
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University of California, Santa Barbara’s Professor Soojin Yi and colleagues aimed to determine how genes in different types of brain cells have evolved...
Tea (Camellia sinensis), originating in China over 3,000 years ago, has transitioned from a medicinal herb to a widely consumed beverage. Despite considerable...
One of these genetic variants was inherited from Neanderthals, according to a study led by University College London researchers.
El Sidron Neanderthals...
In a genomic study encompassing more than 300 genomes, researchers determined the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans, starting...
Scientists have sequenced and analyzed the genomes of seven individuals who lived between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago in Ranis, Germany and Zlatý kůň,...
The Linear Pottery Culture (Linearbandkeramik, LBK) communities, which were the first to spread farming across large parts of Europe, showed no signs of...
The Vikings played a preeminent role in the peopling of the North Atlantic, and one might expect populations that were founded by them to be genetically...
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Hong Kong have created mouse stem cells capable of generating a fully developed mouse...
The identification of a new hominin group called Denisovans was one of the most exciting discoveries in human evolution in the last decade. Unlike Neanderthal...
DNA methylation is one of several epigenetic mechanisms crucial for regulating gene expression in eukaryotic organisms.
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Using genome, transcriptome, and proteome analysis of the newly-discovered species of tardigrade, named Hypsibius henanensis, scientists explored the molecular...
A research team led by John Innes Centre scientists has sequenced and annotated the chromosome-scale genome assembly of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), a...
