For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

Researchers have created a new way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of complex plant genomes by analyzing genetic traces left by transposable elements. The technique revealed that modern ...

Deep within tropical forests, sloths move at a pace that seems almost frozen in time. Their slow movements, low energy use, ...

Polar bear subpopulations across the Arctic are losing genetic diversity and showing divergent gene activity as sea ice ...

This study highlights the Wheat Spatial Omics Consortium, which aims to build a spatiotemporal single-cell atlas of wheat in response to different treatments, thereby contributing to the development ...

DNA carries the instructions for life, but additional molecular systems help determine how those instructions are used. New ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

Greek oregano is valued worldwide for its strong aroma, culinary appeal, and essential oil (EO) rich in bioactive terpenoids ...

Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.

Scientists found that some inherited traits can bypass the traditional rules of genetics, revealing a surprising new layer of ...

The authors would like to thank Tomas Hessler, Leylen Miloslavich, and Kaden DiMarco for their assistance in lab experiments. We thank LinXing Chen and Kaitlin E. Creamer for the thoughtful comments ...

In 1944, 29 reindeer were introduced to St. Matthew Island for emergency food. Without predators, the herd exploded to 6,000.