(PhysOrg.com) -- Using powerful genome sequencing tools created for human genetics, researchers can now exploit the genetic diversity of crops to improve productivity, sustainability and nutrition, a Cornell ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 22, 2011 not rated yet 2

Crested gibbons (genus Nomascus) live in dense Asian rainforest, specifically in China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, and, because of their environment, they communicate with other gibbons by singing. Both males and female ...

Biology - Evolution

Feb 07, 2011 not rated yet 0

Things are not always what they seem when it comes to fish -- something scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and the Ocean Science Foundation are finding out. Using modern genetic analysis, combined with ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 04, 2011 4.3 / 5 (6) 0 |

In a study published online today in Genome Research, in coordination with the publication of the orangutan genome sequence, scientists have presented the surprising finding that although orangutans and humans are more d ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 26, 2011 5 / 5 (6) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have completed the most comprehensive genetic analysis to date of the domesticated grape, applying new technology to uncover a surprising degree ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 19, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

Today's most common cultivated strawberry, the familiar Fragaria x vananassa (F. xananassa), is believed to have resulted from a chance hybridization of two wild strawberry species in Europe more than 250 years ago. This h ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 18, 2011 not rated yet 0

Weakened by inbreeding and disease, bumble bees have died off at an astonishing rate over the past 20 years, with some US populations diving more than 90 percent, according to a new study.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 03, 2011 4.4 / 5 (19) 16

A mathematically driven evolutionary snapshot of woody plants in four similar climates around the world has given scientists a fresh perspective on genetic diversity and threats posed by both extinctions and ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 16, 2010 4.3 / 5 (3) 1 |

Dolphins along coast of Argentina could experience a significant loss of genetic diversity because some of the animals that accidently die when tangled in fishing nets are related. According to a new genetic ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 15, 2010 not rated yet 1 |

The human body is home to a complex ecosystem of microbes increasingly recognized as having a critical role in both health and disease. Viruses can attack and change the composition of bacterial communities, yet little is ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Dec 12, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

The soil is the biosphere's most biologically active zone and harbours the largest reservoir of genetic diversity. In various disciplines, scientists – among them Dani Or's group – employ models ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 17, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0

The Saimaa ringed seal population in Finland, which has been on the brink of extinction for decades, increased slightly last year thanks to aggressive conservation efforts, experts said Thursday.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 11, 2010 not rated yet 1

The autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes (T1D), also known as juvenile diabetes, is diagnosed in approximately 70,000 children worldwide per year. Genetics is increasingly being recognized as playing a significant role in susceptibility ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Nov 03, 2010 not rated yet 0

Change has been the norm for Wisconsin's forests over the last 50 years, and the next 50 are unlikely to pass quietly.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 19, 2010 not rated yet 0

The first genetic study to compare nuclear DNA of endangered Antillean manatees in Belize with Florida manatees confirmed their designation as separate subspecies. Belize's manatees, however, were found to have extremely ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 13, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0