A vast number of species depend on sexual reproduction for survival. Sex facilitates adaptation and rids populations of deleterious mutations. Despite the benefits of this...
EvolutionFungiGenetics JournalGenetics of SexPopulation Genetics
Mark Blaxter (Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh) reports on the “Caenorhabditis Genomes Project” workshop at GSA’s recent 20th International C. elegans Meeting. Caenorhabditis elegans,...
EvolutionGenomicsGSA C. elegans MeetingGuest PostPopulation Genetics
The sticky fruit of the date palm has a tangled history. New research in G3 explores the palm’s genetic diversity and traces its earliest cultivation...
Bdelloid rotifers have been veiled in mystery for decades. Despite extensive studies of this class of tiny freshwater invertebrates, no one has observed any trace...
ChromosomesEvolutionGenetics JournalGenetics of SexPopulation Genetics
By the time President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative in January 2015, the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging (GERA) cohort was...
AgingGenetics JournalGenomicsGWASHuman DiseasePopulation Genetics
The most diverse of all human genes encode a set of proteins at the frontline of our immune system. Many different Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)...
BioinformaticsG3 JournalGenomicsGWASHuman DiseaseImmune SystemPopulation GeneticsSequencing
Like all biological populations, human groups can’t be neatly divided. Real populations are connected to each other, and their borders are blurred by migration and...
G3 JournalGenomicsHuman Evolution & VariationPopulation Genetics
In Eurasia, humans once had Neanderthals for neighbors. That time of co-existence seems to have left its marks in our genome; non-Africans today share more genetic...
EvolutionGenetics JournalGenomicsHuman Evolution & VariationPopulation Genetics
Transposable elements don’t proliferate in genomes at a steady pace; they often arrive in bursts. But models of neutral TE evolution assume transposition occurs at...
DrosophilaGenetics JournalPopulation GeneticsTransposable Elements
