Animals and plants form complex symbiotic communities with microorganisms, the so-called microbiome. A research team from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research ...
Ecology
Mar 19, 2024
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Plant genomics has come a long way since Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) helped sequence the first plant genome. But engineering the perfect crop is still, in many ways, a game of chance. Making the same DNA mutation ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 4, 2024
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The green anaconda has long been considered one of the Amazon's most formidable and mysterious animals. Our new research, published in Diversity, upends scientific understanding of this magnificent creature, revealing it ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 19, 2024
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The genetic differences between pointed cabbage and cauliflower are greater than those between humans and chimpanzees. Nevertheless, they are considered the same species. Researchers from Wageningen and China mapped the extensive ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 15, 2024
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A recent study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that genetic variation determines chromatin accessibility and the binding of transcription factors. Chromatin consists of DNA and proteins attached to it. The density ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 22, 2024
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Large differences in flower characteristics between wildflowers with different pollinators are achieved by a few key genetic differences, according to a study by Carolyn Wessinger at the University of South Carolina, US, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2023
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Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) have found that Aspergillus fumigatus produces more meiotic crossovers than any other organism. This means that the fungus can establish its complex resistance mechanism ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 15, 2023
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Successful matchmaking with protein molecules is like all other kinds of matchmaking: The two must click for it to work.
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 14, 2023
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Humans split away from our closest animal relatives, chimpanzees, and formed our own branch on the evolutionary tree about seven million years ago. In the time since—brief, from an evolutionary perspective—our ancestors ...
Evolution
Jun 20, 2023
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A detailed, high-resolution map of the rusty patched bumble bee's genome has been released by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) scientists, ...
Ecology
Jun 19, 2023
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