Natural selection alters genes that control roundworms' sense of smell
Charles Darwin was right.
Evolution
Sep 26, 2019
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News tagged with artificial selection
Study suggests dog breeds with less artificial selection history behave more wolf-like
A team of researchers from the University of Pisa and the University of Milan has found evidence that shows that dog breeds with a long artificial selection history are less wolf-like in their behavior than breeds with less ...
Ancient pigs endured a complete genomic turnover after they arrived in Europe
New research led by Oxford University and Queen Mary University of London has resolved a pig paradox. Archaeological evidence has shown that pigs were domesticated in the Near East and as such, modern pigs should resemble ...
Ecology
Aug 12, 2019
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Yield-boosting stay-green gene identified from 118-year-old experiment in corn
A corn gene identified from a 118-year-old experiment at the University of Illinois could boost yields of today's elite hybrids with no added inputs. The gene, identified in a recent Plant Biotechnology Journal study, controls ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2019
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Directed evolution comes to plants
A new platform for speeding up and controlling the evolution of proteins inside living plants has been developed by a KAUST-led team.
Evolution
Jun 19, 2019
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Tapping the power of AI and high-performance computing to extend evolution to superconductors
Owners of thoroughbred stallions carefully breed prizewinning horses over generations to eke out fractions of a second in million-dollar races. Materials scientists have taken a page from that playbook, turning to the power ...
Superconductivity
May 24, 2019
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Careful using that f-word to describe dingoes, study warns
A UNSW Sydney study says more evidence is needed before declaring the dingo a feral animal, casting a shadow over state governments' justification for culling Australia's largest carnivorous mammal.
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2019
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Man's impact on flax evolution more limited than thought
Flax naturally adapted to new environments rather than by human influence due to a set of genes that enable it to change its architecture according to researchers from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick.
Biotechnology
Jan 30, 2019
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The taming of the dog, cow, horse, pig and rabbit
Research at the Earlham Institute into one of the 'genetic orchestra conductors', microRNAs, sheds light on our selectively guided evolution of domestic pets and farmyard animals such as dogs and cows.
Biotechnology
Nov 20, 2018
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Evolutionary computation has been promising self-programming machines for 60 years – so where are they?
What if computers could program themselves? Instead of the laborious job of working out how a computer could solve a problem and then writing precise coded instructions, all you would have to do is tell it what you want and ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 27, 2018
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