There are three major ways by which the rate of genetic drift can be modelled in the simplest type of population: increase in variance of allele frequencies; approach to identity by descent of all ...

Inbreeding depression is the reduced survival and fertility of offspring of related individuals. Large effects are documented in wild animal and plant populations, as well as in humans. Intercrossing ...

To breakfast enthusiasts everywhere, perhaps no image is as immediately reassuring as the golden glow of a McDonald’s hash ...

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Intersex Awareness Week is marked annually to recall a small group of protesters who picketed the American Academy of ...

Motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), share physical ...

BYU plant and wildlife professors Rick Jellen and Jeff Maughan, together with an international consortium of researchers, ...

An analysis of a slug-eating response by naive, newborn garter snakes provides a particularly clear example of geographic variation in behavior with a genetic basis. Feeding responses were recorded ...

Belgian Journal of Botany, Vol. 137, No. 2 (2004), pp. 163-174 (12 pages) In Western Europe and North America Echinochloa muricata (P. Beauv.) Fernald (native in North America) has long been confused ...

Medicinal plants across the world are exemplary models for studying the evolutionary and ecological processes that shape ...

Background Autosomal dominant (AD) inheritance often arises through haploinsufficiency, dominant-negative or gain of function (GoF) effects, while autosomal recessive (AR) inheritance generally ...