Feb 17, 2016 by News Staff

A multinational group of researchers has found strong genetic evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and anatomically modern Homo sapiens...

Feb 2, 2016 by News Staff

A large multinational team of scientists has successfully sequenced the whole genome of the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius), uncovering several traits...

Feb 1, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Veronika Laine from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and Dr. Martien Groenen from Wageningen University,...

Jan 12, 2016 by News Staff

According to a study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, dog domestication may have caused harmful genetic changes. Canadian...

Jan 8, 2016 by News Staff

Interbreeding of anatomically modern Homo sapiens with Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) around 40,000 years ago may have left humans with gene variants...

Dec 30, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A large team of researchers reported this week that it had sequenced the whole genomes of four prehistoric Irish individuals: a Neolithic woman (3343 –...

Dec 21, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from Malaysia and Australia has successfully sequenced the genome of a famous ornamental fish species called the Asian...

Nov 30, 2015 by Natali Anderson

A team of genetic researchers, led by Dr Jose de Vega of the Genome Analysis Center and Aberystwyth University, UK, has successfully sequenced the genome...

Nov 17, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genetic study of myxozoans, a large group of parasites that infect invertebrate and aquatic vertebrate hosts, confirms that these weird microorganisms...

Nov 5, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A multinational team of scientists – led by Dr Senjie Lin of Xiamen University and the University of Connecticut – has mapped the genome of Symbiodinium...

Nov 3, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of scientists has sequenced genomes of a wild pineapple relative, the red pineapple (Ananas bracteatus), and two cultivated varieties...

Oct 28, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published this week in the journal Biology Letters overturns the popular assumption that the mitochondrial evolution is only visible over long...

Oct 26, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of researchers has sequenced the nuclear genome of the aurochs (Bos primigenius), an extinct species of ox that inhabited Europe,...

Sep 28, 2015 by News Staff

A genome-wide analysis of 21 black rice varieties as well as red- and white-grained landraces demonstrated that black rice arose in a rice subspecies called...

Sep 25, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists have produced the first comparison of DNA sequences between Przewalski’s horse and the domestic horse. Przewalski’s horses (Equus ferus...

Sep 24, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study, published this week in the journal Nature, enamel evolved in the skin and colonized the teeth much later. Early evolution of...

Aug 13, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of genetic researchers from Japan and the United States has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the common California two-spot octopus...

Jul 23, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of scientists led by the University of Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the genome of the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)...

Jul 22, 2015 by News Staff

A new study, published in the journal Nature, shows that some Amazonian Native Americans descend partly from a Native American population that carried...

Jul 21, 2015 by News Staff

Using ancient and modern genome-wide data, a team of researchers has found that the ancestors of all present-day Native Americans, including Athabascans...