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.
Feb 22, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
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.
Jul 21, 2011 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
16
|
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 ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
4.3 / 5 (14) |
5
|
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.
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 ...
Aug 25, 2009 |
5 / 5 (6) |
1