Quick Take Inbreeding occurs when relatives mate and can cause inbreeding depression, with abnormalities, health issues, and reduced fertility. Cheetahs have very low genetic variation, leading to ...

Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

Humans are still evolving, and Tatum Simonson, PhD, founder and co-director of the Center for Physiological Genomics of Low Oxygen at University of California School of Medicine, plans to use ...

Investigations suggest V2P may be efficiently applied for the automated identification of causal variants in simulated and actual patient sequencing data across phenotypes.

The present theory offers a unified solution to three closely related evolutionary problems. (1) Why does an evolving population explore only a small fraction of the accessible pathways in genotype ...

Without bumble bees, a flowering plant that can self-pollinate lost substantial genetic variation within only nine generations, an experimental study found. A group of 'selfing' monkeyflower plants ...