Plants May Switch Between Selfing and Outcrossing More Easily Than Thought
Plant populations do not always have to commit to a single way of reproducing.
Tag: population genetics
Hidden Chromosomal Diversity Uncovered in a Midge Once Thought Genetically Uniform
A survey of 19 natural populations reveals that the midge Chironomus agilis, long considered chromosomally uniform, harbors substantial inversion polymorphism, ...
Rare DNA Haplotypes Hint at Hidden Routes in the Blue Crab’s European Invasion
Four years of DNA monitoring in Spain's Guadalquivir Estuary revealed two rare blue crab haplotypes matching Gulf of Mexico and ...
Genome sequencing reveals hidden exceptions in toothfish connectivity
Genome-wide and reduced-representation sequencing found broad genetic connectivity in Antarctic toothfish but also temporal diversity loss and elevated inbreeding in ...
Rare EGFR mutation sharply raises lung cancer risk in large genetic study
An observational study of 3.3 million research participants found that inherited EGFR T790M was associated with 25-fold higher lung cancer ...
Systematic tuning retains more SNPs from fragmented keratinised-tissue DNA
A systematic workflow evaluation improved efficiency and retained more SNPs from highly fragmented, comparatively low-damage DNA derived from keratinised tissues.
Two-field HLA typing maps diversity in 606 clinically referred northeastern Mexicans
A retrospective study of 606 clinically referred people in northeastern Mexico characterized two-field HLA allele and haplotype diversity, but its ...
Cytogenetic survey of 41 populations maps extensive chromosomal polymorphism in Chironomus borokensis
A cytogenetic study of 41 populations found extensive inversion and translocation diversity in Chironomus borokensis, with the highest sampled polymorphism ...
The sawflies ( Hymenoptera , Tenthredinidae ) of Greenland
A 2025 field and genetic study recorded six sawfly species in southern Greenland, documented Euura vaga as a new national ...
Karyotype and COI sequence of Chironomus heteropilicornis from Gydan Peninsula
Chromosome and COI analyses characterized a newly recorded Chironomus heteropilicornis population from Russia’s Gydan Peninsula and placed its barcode with ...
Mitochondrial DNA reveals isolated Chiloé pudu deer populations
Mitochondrial DNA analysis found sharply isolated pudu deer populations on Chiloé Island, broad connectivity among mainland mountain ranges and evidence ...
Argentina Builds Its Own Transplant Matching Calculator to Reflect Local Donors
Researchers in Argentina have developed cPRArgentina, a web-based calculator that estimates transplant donor incompatibility using local deceased donor data and ...
Sequencing the Y Chromosome Reveals Hidden Forensic Clues in Yunnan Han Men
Deep in southwestern China, a team of forensic scientists has shown that the Y chromosome holds far more identifying detail ...
Ancient Salmon DNA From a Spanish Cave Rewrites 18,000 Years of Atlantic Salmon History
Genomes recovered from 18,000-year-old salmon vertebrae in a Spanish cave reveal that ancient Iberian salmon were genetically closer to British ...
Urban Snail Populations Reveal Hidden Genetic Mosaic in China’s Yangtze Basin
Whole mitochondrial genome analysis of Oncomelania hupensis snails in Suzhou reveals three distinct maternal lineages and five local genetic groups ...
Mosquito Genes Map Colombia’s Hidden Aedes aegypti Lineages
A country-scale mitochondrial study of Aedes aegypti in Colombia reveals two broad genetic clusters shaped by urbanization, history, and climate ...
Gene Swapping, Not Mutation, Drives the Hidden Evolutionary Rulebook of Gut Bacteria
A new PLOS Biology study shows that recombination, not changing selection pressures, largely explains the declining dN/dS ratios observed in ...
GraTools brings speed and simplicity to pangenome variation graph analysis
Researchers have developed GraTools, an open-source command-line tool that simplifies and accelerates the exploration and manipulation of pangenome variation graphs, ...
Scientists Reassess COVID-19 Genetic Risk Findings After Statistical Challenge
A research team has reanalyzed its COVID-19 genetic association data, confirming the Factor V Leiden finding while downgrading the MTHFR ...
Ocean Currents Keep the Highly Diverse European Amphioxus Genetically United
Whole-genome sequencing reveals that the European amphioxus carries exceptional genetic diversity maintained by a vast effective population size and long-distance ...
