A research team has clarified a mechanism of how retrotransposons, genetic elements that can 'jump around' chromosomes and are known drivers of evolution, preferentially insert in the centromere. A ...
A small tissue fold present in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses and may have evolved in response to mechanical forces. Mechanical forces shape tissues and organs during the development of ...
A new study examines mathematical models designed to draw inferences about how evolution operates at the level of populations of organisms. The study concludes that such models must be constructed ...
A new study on the evolutionary force titled "Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover" in the journal Science. (From left) University of Toronto Mississauga biology ...
Why molecular biology needs palaeontology / S. Conway Morris -- Can the Cambrian explosion be inferred through molecular phylogeny? / H. Philippe, A. Chenuil, A. Adoutte -- Protein families in the ...