evolutionary biology

An international team has sequenced the Zostera marina genome to uncover gene gains and losses that helped it in its return to the sea.

Researchers have found an accumulation of mutations in the genome of the African cheetah that may contribute to its low reproductive success.

Two teams of researchers have sequenced the short-lived turquoise killifish, finding that aging-related genes cluster on its developing sex chromosomes.

Horses in the Siberian Far East appear to have been introduced by the Yakut population within the last several hundred years, adapting to the environment since then.

Analyses on sequence data for more than two-dozen plants point to two previously unknown whole-genome duplication events in the conifer lineage.