natural selection and degree of randomness involved in the occurrence of structural variants in the human genome. Our preliminary data indicate that most of the CNVs and inversions that have been ...

can significantly contribute toward maintenance of a reasonable level of integrity in the genome of other species in the long term. If negative selection is too strong for the whole population ...

With the flurry of media attention surrounding the race to sequence the genome, it often seems as if the myriad genome facts and news items floating around could fill up a couple of telephone books.

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial ...

Protein-coding versus noncoding genes When deciding the number of genes in the human genome, Human Genome Project researchers initially counted protein-coding genes—regions of chromosomal DNA that are ...

It continues 25 years of research at deCODE genetics into how new diversity is generated in the human genome, and its relationship to health and disease. The new map, appearing today in the online ...

Each genome is duplicated multiple times and is ... major evolutionary theories—Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection and Susumu Ohno's neofunctionalization by gene duplication ...

Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new strain of bird flu, marking the second strain detected in herds since ...

Research from Umeå University paves the way for a quantitative data analysis method to study the cell division process in individual cells. The improved resolution will promote advanced cell analysis ...

Genome Spotlight is a monthly column for The Scientist’s Genetics & Genomics newsletter that highlights recently published genome sequences and the mysteries of life they may reveal. Christie is a ...

Key findings highlight the role of horizontal gene transfer, the incorporation of foreign bacterial genetic material into the beetle genome, which is thought to be the result of earlier symbioses.