Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution is ...

How genetic drift arises and its prevalence in mouse colonies. ... This process of spontaneous mutations appearing, disappearing, or becoming fixed in a population at random is called genetic ...

Many Europeans carry genetic mutations that protected their ancestors from the bubonic plague, scientists reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature.. When the Black Death struck Europe in 1348 ...

The University of Minnesota is stepping up efforts to identify biological threats that could trigger an epidemic, launching ...

Genetic drift continues to change the frequency of alleles—different versions, or variants, of a given gene—as it does in all biological populations. "The census size of humans has now ...

Their study, published in Aquaculture Reports, highlights a significant issue of genetic homogeneity among farmed cultivars of Saccharina japonica across China.. This problem was first identified ...

Overall, the study findings showed that the strength of genetic drift in SARS-CoV-2 transmission in England was greater than estimated and indicated that further modeling studies methods are ...