Don’t like your greens? Blame it on Brassica domestication
New study shows genetic diversity of ancestor, wild Brassica rapa, came from domestication more than 3,000 years agoCredit: Illustration by ...
Tag: Evolution
70-year-old coffee-killing fungus brought back to life to fight the disease
Credit: CABI Researchers have re-animated specimens of a fungus that causes coffee wilt to discover how the disease evolved and ...
The DNA of three aurochs found next to the Elba shepherdess opens up a new enigma for palaeontology
Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) Research involving scientists from the University of A Coruña has succeeded in sequencing the oldest ...
The evolutionary fates of supergenes unmasked
Credit: Image courtesy of Tanja Slotte. Photo Credits: Alex Wild (Solenopsis), Tanja Slotte (Primula), and Krushnamegh Kunte (Papilio). While the ...
Taking a bite out of tooth evolution: Frogs have lost teeth more than 20 times
Credit: Daniel Paluh/Florida Museum of Natural History GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Scientists have long known that frogs are oddballs when it ...
Sick bats also employ ‘social distancing’ which prevents the outbreak of epidemics
New study from Tel Aviv University reveals that bats also resort to isolation which can assist in preventing mass contagionCredit: ...
Newly discovered African ‘climate seesaw’ drove human evolution
Credit: Prof. Martin Trauth, University of Potsdam While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our ...
Reef-building corals and the microscopic algae within their cells evolve together
Genetics of coral-algal partnerships may have conservation implicationsCredit: Lisa Carne, Fragments of Hope Belize UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The microscopic ...
Partners in crime: Agricultural pest that relies on bacteria to overcome plant defenses
Scientists confirm that certain insect larvae host bacteria that help shut down plant defense mechanismsCredit: Professor Gen-ichiro Arimura, Tokyo University ...
Seabirds face dire threats from climate change, human activity — especially in Northern Hemisphere
Credit: Ron LeValley Many seabirds in the Northern Hemisphere are struggling to breed -- and in the Southern Hemisphere, they ...
Parasites as fountains of youth: Study finds infected ants live much longer
Life expectancy of tapeworm-infected worker ants is significantly higher than that of their uninfected nest-mates and resembles that of ant ...
Study sheds light on population history of northern east Asia
Credit: Mao et al., 2021 A study led by research groups of Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate ...
Fish adapt to ocean acidification by modifying gene expression
Credit: Sean D. Connell Human-driven global change is challenging the scientific community to understand how marine species might adapt to ...
Study finds ongoing evolution in Tasmanian Devils’ response to transmissible cancer
U of I-led study finds ongoing evolution in Tasmanian Devils' response to transmissible cancerCredit: Photo courtesy of Menna Jones. MOSCOW, ...
How antibiotic-filled poop helps ‘bessbug’ beetles stay healthy
Understanding the communities of antimicrobial-producing bacteria that thrive in the feces of horned passalus beetles could help scientists discover new ...
Dinosaur-age fossils provide new insights into origin of flowering plants
Credit: NIGPAS Flowering plants (angiosperms) dominate most terrestrial ecosystems, providing the bulk of human food. However, their origin has been ...
Non-parents expand ‘facial dexterity’ in caring for infants among primates
Findings underscore evolutionary nature of non-verbal communicationCredit: James P. Higham Non-parents expand the range of their facial expressions in caring ...
Newly discovered enzymes are not heavy metal fans
Researchers at Tsukuba University discover a new group of carbonic anhydrase enzymes that do not require any metal ions for ...
“Scuba-diving” lizards use bubble attached to snout to breathe underwater
Credit: Lindsey Swierk BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A team of evolutionary biologists including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New ...
How do clownfish earn their stripes?
The distinctive white stripes in clownfish form at different rates depending on their sea anemone hosts, a PNAS study findsCredit: ...