Findings suggest that new genes can form by repurposing fragments of ancestral genes while incorporating entirely new coding regions (the protein-coding parts of the DNA). This innovative concept ...

Asteraceae, a family of flowering plants, are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world. This plant family ...

From where do novel genes originate? In a recent study, a group of University of Arkansas researchers studying biological ...

A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.

A University of Arizona researcher was part of a study strongly linking pandemic origin to the seafood market in China.

Researchers uncover a 320-million-year-old fossil site in Massachusetts, revealing over 130 species of reptiles, amphibians, ...

A new study published in Genome Biology and Evolution found links between the DNA of ancient hominids called Neanderthals and ...

But to the authors of the paper, the takeaway is clear. Michael Worobey, head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary ...

Where do new genes come from? That's the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer ...

Scientists have captured one woman’s cognitive evolution into motherhood, taking repeated brain scans over three years to ...

In his 40 years at the University, Professor of Biology Frederick Cohan has contributed to an august history of natural ...

A Mississippi State biologist has discovered a new parasitic wasp species that uniquely targets adult flies, a scientific ...