New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event.

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The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

Adaptive potential determines how populations respond to environmental change. This study compiles evolvability estimates from over 170 multicellular species, revealing substantial variation across th...

Abstract. Hybridization may offer a form of genetic rescue from warming temperatures through the introgression of heat-adapted alleles from a high-toleranc

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Nature Methods - EviAnn surpasses existing genome annotation methods by leveraging gene expression and protein sequence homology evidence to achieve higher accuracy and efficiency.

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother.

Mutation rates per generation are strikingly similar across germlines of animals and across at least one somatic cell type, suggesting a key role for natural selection in shaping mutation rates. This ...

The SSAR Mentorship Program has become an important way for meeting attendees to make lasting professional connections. Each mentor is usually matched with 1-2 mentees and given a list of ideas for ...

Abstract. Habitat loss contributes to extinction risk in multiple ways. Genetically, small populations can face an ‘extinction vortex’—a positive feedback

Tackling a popular hereditarian argument