Genes aren't just transferred from parents to their offspring. Nature has found other ways to pass on genetic information, ...

Most animals straightforwardly inherit their genetic material. DNA passes from parent to offspring, generation after generation, creating the biological continuity that links families, populations and ...

The E. affinis complex currently serves as a valuable model system for investigating evolutionary adaptation during habitat transitions, both during biological invasions and in response to climate ...

New findings, published in Nature, help answer the riddle of how vertebrates evolved the diverse array of brain cells that ...

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

Super-pangenomes expand species-level pan-genomes to genus-wide frameworks, which integrate cultivated and wild genomes to capture hidden diversity. Super-pangenomes reduce reference bias, discover ...

The sequencing of the genomes of a spider from the mainland (Dysdera catalonica, left) and one from the Canary Islands (Dysdera tilosensis, right) opens a new perspective for understanding how genome ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

In a study published in Developmental Cell, a team led by Prof. Robert K. Naumann from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and researchers from BGI ...