Warming beaches threaten Yemen sea turtles' future
On a Yemeni beach, a sea turtle clambers ashore to lay eggs, which will likely be born female due to rising temperatures, creating a gender imbalance that brings the threat of local extinction.
On a Yemeni beach, a sea turtle clambers ashore to lay eggs, which will likely be born female due to rising temperatures, creating a gender imbalance that brings the threat of local extinction.
Ecology
Oct 4, 2023
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Commercial whaling in the 20th century decimated populations of large whales but also appears to have had a lasting impact on the genetic diversity of today's surviving whales, new research from Oregon State University shows.
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2023
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Despite inbreeding and limited genetic diversity, the Svalbard reindeer has managed to adapt to extreme living conditions in record time—what researchers call a genetic paradox. But can they survive climate change?
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2023
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Vital coastal habitat was destroyed in the devastating floods that hit New South Wales in 2021 and 2022.
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2023
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A team of ecologists and evolutionary biologists at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, has found that some normally asexual species of stick insects, which are known to reproduce via parthenogenesis, occasionally mate ...
Genome sequencing comparisons with wolves, strays and dogs across the world has found Australia's dingoes have the highest loads of harmful mutations—and diversity levels that are 36% lower than the most inbred dogs.
Evolution
Sep 20, 2023
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The iconic African black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) faces an uncertain future after intense poaching caused a 98% decline in wild populations from 1960 to 1995. While numbers are currently increasing, the animal remains ...
Evolution
Sep 14, 2023
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Peppers are a versatile, flavorful, and widely popular crop, used not only as a healthy food source but also for their medicinal properties.
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 12, 2023
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Understanding global patterns of species genetic diversity is an integral part of monitoring and preserving life on Earth. To date, however, scientists have mapped macrogenetic patterns in vertebrates exclusively. Macrogenetics ...
Ecology
Aug 31, 2023
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For the first time, the single primer enrichment technology (SPET)—a novel high-throughput genotyping method—was used in lettuce to study the genetic diversity of a collection of 160 Lactuca accessions originating from ...
Biotechnology
Aug 30, 2023
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