A single gene in the shorebird species known as ruffs controls the levels of testosterone in males, and this in turn affects ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and ...

A high-quality genome assembly of Silene latifolia was generated by researchers at CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ...

Genetic alterations may help mosquitoes adjust to climate change, shifting the distribution of mosquito-borne disease in a ...

Structural variation is a change in the structure of an organism's genome, such as deletions, duplications and inversions of the genetic sequence. These structural changes to the genome can be ...

Chromosomal inversions are an important class of genetic variation that link multiple alleles together into a single inherited block that can have important effects on fitness. To study the role of ...

Inversion. A segment of DNA that is reversed in orientation with respect to the rest of the chromosome. Pericentric inversions include the centromere, whereas paracentric inversions do not.

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK Leibniz Institute (IPK) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has ...

The results are published in the journal New Phytologist. Chromosomal rearrangements, such as chromosome segment inversions, may affect the epigenetic landscape as well as gene expression.

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK Leibniz Institute (IPK) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...