Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by accident. Scientists have long known that whole-genome ...

On Thursday, March 13, the Department of Biology hosted Greg Lang, associate professor of biological sciences at Lehigh ...

The modern cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) originates from interspecific hybridization between two octoploid wild ...

This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. The genome-based phylogeny helps to resolve long-standing evolutionary debates and provides new insights into how the ...

Second, the viral genome encodes all the necessary information ... Viral genomes represent essential elements of the phylogeny of life and have played important parts in evolution.

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...

New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species—including plants, fungi, and even humans—are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called "selfish ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.