News tagged with interbreeding

Research offers way to save endangered Florida bird, and a lesson for conservationists

A team of researchers has found a key to the habitat puzzle for improving long-term survival of the endangered Florida Scrub-Jay.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With secondhand gene, 'freaky mouse' defeats common poison

Over millennia, mice have thrived despite humanity's efforts to keep them at bay. A Rice University scientist argues some mice have found two ways to achieve a single goal -- resistance to common poison.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

New algorithm provides new insights into evolutionary exodus out of Africa

Researchers have probed deeper into human evolution by developing an elegant new technique to analyse whole genomes from different populations. One key finding from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's study is that African ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Neanderthals may have interbred with humans twice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Extinct human species such as Neanderthals may still be with us, at least in our DNA, and this may help explain why they disappeared from the fossil record around 30,000 years ago.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (48) | comments 22 | with audio podcast report

Biologists Unlock Secrets of Plants' Growing Tips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologist Magdalena Bezanilla and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have used a technique they call multi-gene silencing to, for the first time, simultaneously silence nine genes in a ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1