Evolutionary genetics is the study of how genetic variation leads to evolutionary change. It includes topics such as the evolution of genome structure, the genetic basis of speciation and adaptation, ...

Oryza rufipogon is an ordinary-looking wild grass found today in parts of China, India and Southeast Asia. More than 8,000 ...

The genera Cucurbita comprises economically and culturally significant squashes and pumpkins, whose genetic diversity and evolutionary trajectories reveal insights into domestication, adaptation and ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine copepods—the tiny crustaceans at the heart of the ocean food web—rely on a largely ...

A decades-long study of Dutch great tits shows that post-selective immigration, not selection alone, governs whether clutch size evolves or remains static.

A comparative genomic study of 12 pig family species reveals lineage-specific immune gene loss, interleukin-1 family ...

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

A large-scale genomic study of koalas across eastern Australia has found that populations that went through severe 20th-century bottlenecks are already showing signs of genetic recovery, challenging ...