About a decade ago, de Mendoza even searched for these genes in protists and similar unicellular organisms during his PhD research. He only had three sequenced genomes to search at the time ...

All have a set of very similar genes (the homeobox genes) that define their basic body plan. As they grow, the differences that will distinguish the embryos as adults become more and more apparent.

The more similar the men’s and women’s immune system genes were, the worse the T-shirt stank to the women. There is a sound evolutionary explanation for this: If parental immune genes are too ...

Humans are now known to have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes, but researchers still have much to learn about these small ...

genes within the Mimivirus genome would need to be compared to genes of other organisms. When organisms share similar genes, we can hypothesize that they share an evolutionary heritage.

Woodrats survive on toxic creosote plants by copying detox genes, producing more enzymes to break down plant toxins and avoid ...