The common cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. var. lycopersicum; or (SLL)) is among the world's most widely grown vegetable crops, from big agricultural farms to heirloom grown varieties.
Evolution
Jan 7, 2020
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DNA from 75-year old eradicated European malaria parasites uncovers the historical spread of one of the two most common forms of the disease, Plasmodium vivax, from Europe to the Americas during the colonial period, finds ...
Evolution
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When they share habitat, orangethroat and rainbow darters tend to avoid one another, even though they are closely related and can produce "hybrid" offspring. The males compete with males of their own species and will almost ...
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Nov 25, 2019
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Researchers from McMaster University have discovered striking variation in the underlying genetic machinery that orchestrates sexual differentiation in frogs, demonstrating that evolution of this crucial biological system ...
Evolution
Nov 19, 2019
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Scientists at the University of Birmingham have unravelled the genetic mechanisms behind tiny waterfleas' ability to adapt to increased levels of phosphorus pollution in lakes.
Evolution
Nov 13, 2019
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Two million years of eating meat and cooked food may have helped humans shift further from other great apes on the evolutionary tree. The evidence is in our saliva, according to new research from the University at Buffalo.
Evolution
Oct 16, 2019
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A new study by Yale scientists provides a key insight into a milestone event in the early evolution of life on Earth—the origin of the cell nucleus and complex cells called eukaryotes.
Evolution
Sep 11, 2019
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For millennia, the massive Tibetan mastiff has laid literal claim to the label "top dog."
Plants & Animals
Sep 4, 2019
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Scientists know that age and weight are risk factors in the development of cancer. That should mean that whales, which include some of the largest and longest-lived animals on Earth, have an outsized risk of developing cancer.
Molecular & Computational biology
May 9, 2019
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With new genome analysis tools, scientists have made significant advances in our understanding of modern humans' origins and ancient migrations.
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 6, 2019
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