News tagged with gene flow
Scientists Explore How Landscape Affects Wildlife, Plant Genetics
(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Idaho College of Natural Resources is leading efforts to advance scientific understanding of a relatively new area of research called "landscape genetics," a science that has high potential ...
Jul 23, 2010 |
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For pandas, there is a mountain high enough, there is a valley low enough
Genetic analysis of giant pandas has shown that features of their landscape have a profound effect on the movement of genes within their population. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genetics found ...
Jul 22, 2010 |
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Genetic data added to archaeology and linguistics to get picture of African population history
Genetic researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have combined data from existing archaeological and linguistic studies of Africa with human genetic data to shed light on the demographic history of the continent from ...
May 26, 2010 |
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Paper offers new insights into the genomics of speciation
A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame biologist Jeffrey Feder could herald an important shift in thinking about the genomics of speciation.
May 10, 2010 |
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Complete Neanderthal genome yields insights into human evolution and evidence of interbreeding
After extracting ancient DNA from the 40,000-year-old bones of Neanderthals, scientists have obtained a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome, yielding important new insights into the evolution of modern ...
May 06, 2010 |
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Stone Age Scandinavians unable to digest milk
The hunter-gatherers who inhabited the southern coast of Scandinavia 4,000 years ago were lactose intolerant. This has been shown by a new study carried out by researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University. The ...
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Delimiting Species without Nuclear Monophyly in Madagascar's Mouse Lemurs
Speciation begins when populations become genetically separated through a substantial reduction in gene flow, and it is at this point that a genetically cohesive set of populations attain the sole property of species: the ...
Mar 31, 2010 |
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Looks can be deceiving: Lizards acquire the same camouflaging adaptation in different ways
(PhysOrg.com) -- Does it matter if nature solves the same problem multiple ways? A NSF-supported study of lizard populations in White Sands, New Mexico has helped researcher Erica Rosenblum of the University ...
Dec 30, 2009 |
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If only the weeds would keep their genes to themselves
Family can be a blessing and a curse, and never more so than in the case of crop plants and their wild relatives. These wild and weedy relatives harbor unique and beneficial genes that may no longer be found in their cultivated ...
Oct 06, 2009 |
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