All Articles Tagged As: breeding

Honey bee invaders exploit the genetic resources of their predecessors (2/27/2008)

Like any species that aspires to rule the world, the honey bee, Apis mellifera, invades new territories in repeated assaults. A new study demonstrates that when these honey bees arrive in a place that has already been invaded, the newcomers benefit from the genetic endowment of their predecessors. ...> Full Article

Geneticist Uses New Computational Methods to Search for a Neanderthal Legacy and for Disease Genes (1/20/2008)

Each year, Jurassic Park seems less like science fiction. Scientists are decoding woolly mammoth DNA. They also are decoding DNA from an extinct species much closer to us in genetic makeup - the Neanderthal. ...> Full Article

Key Found To Moonlight Romance On The Reef (10/22/2007)

Researchers have discovered what could be the aphrodisiac for the biggest moonlight sex event on Earth. ...> Full Article

Female Chromosome Confirmed A Prime Driver Of Speciation (10/17/2007)

Researchers believe they have just confirmed a controversial theory of evolution. The X chromosome is a strikingly powerful force in the origin of new species. ...> Full Article

Females avoid incest by causing male relatives to leave home (8/19/2007)

Researchers at the University of Sheffield in the UK and Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin, Germany, have found that female hyenas avoid inbreeding with their male relatives by giving them little choice but to leave their birth group. ...> Full Article

Neanderthal Genome Video Update (4/25/2007)

Nature has put a wonderful short set of videos on their web site about the Neanderthal Genome Project. The project, which hopes to decode and publish the Neanderthal Genome, within a couple years, is steadily making progress, and is releasing new information in regular intervals. ...> Full Article

Females Do Best if They Wait a While (4/9/2007)

Doubt is cast on one of the biggest assumptions in behavioural ecology. ...> Full Article

40,000-year-old skull shows both modern human and Neanderthal traits (4/3/2007)

Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were established in Europe, and interbred with Neanderthals as they settled across the continent. ...> Full Article

Neanderthal DNA Sequencing (11/15/2006)

Work on the Neanderthal Genome Project is starting to bear fruit as two scientific papers are published in journals Nature and Science. So far a large portion of the Neanderthal DNA has been assembled. The Neanderthal, who became extinct 24,000 years ago may be our closest relative. ...> Full Article

Human Neanderthal Interbreeding (11/8/2006)

Researchers with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago have published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that provides circumstantial evidence that humans and Neanderthals interbred at some point in history. ...> Full Article