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 ...

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 ...

A lot of our efforts were placed in understanding how much of this local variation and global excentricity was caused by genetic drift -- a random process that disproportionally affects small ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...