Darwin imagined evolution as a slow, gradual progress, with species accumulating small changes over time. But even he was ...

Genetic mutations and the possible mechanisms underlying evolution have been studied in ... and the gene-linkage map of the fish's chromosomes that the team has developed, may be the tools ...

New work from the Kiel Evolution Center suggests that somatic gene variations play a larger role in evolutionary adaptation mechanisms than ... proposing an expanded concept of genetic variability ...

Mechanisms of evolution Genotype-to-phenotype mapping. In natural evolution, the transformation of genotype into phenotype is a multilayered process that operates on diverse elements, distributed ...

Additionally, SNPs can be used to understand the molecular mechanisms of sequence evolution. It has been found ... variations since this high-density map will provide the necessary tools to ...

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal ... be worse off than the aphids that did not have the endosymbiont due to this ‘rent’ concept.” This concept, that aphids with ...

Toad evolution Cane toads are shining ... "It's a pretty radical concept. It's the first really new mechanism for evolutionary change for 150 years," says Shine. "It's a very different process ...

Meanwhile, the mode of mitosis appears to be intricately connected to the organism's life cycle, which opens up new perspectives on the evolution of cell division mechanisms in eukaryotes.