Diversity of lake cichlid species due to unusually high gene duplication
In an effort to understand the molecular basis of adaptation in vertebrates, researchers sequenced the genomes and transcriptomes of five…
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In an effort to understand the molecular basis of adaptation in vertebrates, researchers sequenced the genomes and transcriptomes of five…
Today’s sloths might be known as slow, small animals, but their ancestors developed large body sizes at an amazing rate, according to…
Some 66 million years ago, a 10-km diameter chunk of rock hit the Yukatan peninsula near the site of the small town of Chicxulub with the…
Thoughts of the family tree may not be uppermost in the mind of a person suffering from a slipped disc, but those spinal discs provide a…
Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds or exoplants for gases that might be produced by life can’t rely on the…
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) — among other telescopes — have determined…
Paleontologists have described three new small squirrel-like species that place a poorly understood Mesozoic group of animals firmly in the…
Collecting plant and animal specimens is essential for scientific studies and conservation and does not, as some critics of the practice…
By analysing the genome of a terrestrial alga, a research group including researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kazusa DNA Research…
New deep sea mushroom-shaped organisms discovered Organisms’ discovery spurs identification of 2 new species Scientists discovered two…