Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution ...
Professor Indraneel Mittra and his team show that DNA fragments from dying cells function as agents of horizontal gene transfer in mammalian cells. For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can ...
“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...
The human gastrointestinal tract is in a constant state of flux; it hosts a diverse and dynamic community of microbes known as the gut microbiome, and is constantly exposed to things in the ...
Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...
One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...
A part of the brain called the pallium is responsible for many complex functions. In mammals, the pallium is thought to be where the neocortex forms, and gives rise to the cerebral cortex and ...
Two new studies show how climate influences behavior, communication, and genome evolution—driving adaptation in a long-running conflict.