A single gene in the shorebird species known as ruffs controls the levels of testosterone in males, and this in turn affects ...

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

Genetic alterations may help mosquitoes adjust to climate change, shifting the distribution of mosquito-borne disease in a ...

The mutation does not cause female infertility ... The karyotypes were all 46xy, while two out of five patients had an inversion on chromosome 9. There were no Y chromosome microdeletions detected ...

1, 2 In this disorder, mutations in a single gene are sufficient to generate ... was found to have a pericentric inversion of chromosome 3. The inversion was found to cosegregate with ...

When the tests for common mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) point mutations are negative and the mtDNA defects ... and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging (Figure 2A). The patient underwent a ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of ...

The results are published in the journal New Phytologist. Chromosomal rearrangements, such as chromosome segment inversions, may affect the epigenetic landscape as well as gene expression.

A high-quality genome assembly of Silene latifolia was generated by researchers at CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK Leibniz Institute (IPK) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...