As global temperatures rise, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists work to grow stronger, more resilient crops. Yet, this process is challenging.

Woodrats weigh less than half a pound but can survive venomous rattlesnake bites that would hospitalize, or even kill, a full ...

When cells divide and chromosomes are replicated for the daughter cells in a select type of cell called the germline, which is happening constantly in living things, sometimes things don’t go ...

Gene tree and species tree reconciliation is a pivotal framework in evolutionary biology that bridges the evolutionary histories of individual gene families with the broader context of species ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 103, No. 7, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Evolutionary Importance of Polyploidy (July 2016), pp. 1212-1222 (11 pages) PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Glucosinolates (GS) are a class of ...

BETHESDA, MD – Human geneticists have discovered that a region of the genome associated with autism contains genetic variation that evolved in the last 250,000 years, after the divergence of humans ...

Study: Tandem duplication of SERPIN genes yields functional variation and snake venom inhibitors (DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaf290)Woodrats weigh less than ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease.

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease, ...