Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

For chromosomes to form the iconic X-shape that ensures the accurate passing of genetic information during cell division, a ...

For chromosomes to form the iconic X-shape that ensures the accurate passing of genetic information during cell division, a ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport ... led by Andreas Brunner and recently published in the Journal of Cell Biology, shows that the nested loop mechanism is fundamental ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz’s Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has ...

Chitons overcome evolutionary constraints through unprecedented genomic dynamism, with extensive chromosomal rearrangements and duplications despite about 300 million years of morphological stasis.

sidestepping the need for the typical pairing of chromosomes seen in sexual reproduction,” said Matthew Fujita, a professor of biology at UTA and a co-author on the paper along with researchers from ...