As climate change accelerates, plants face mounting pressure to adapt to shifting ecosystems and environmental conditions.

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa’s largest pastoral populations. The ...

Understanding how plants adapt to different environments is crucial for addressing climate change. A new study by the groups of Liam Dolan and Frédéric Berger at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of ...

Genetic variation describes naturally occurring genetic differences among individuals of the same species. This variation permits flexibility and survival of a population in the face of changing ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in ...

EvolGenius is a two-locus population genetics simulation written for use in undergraduate courses. Often, we use simulations without really thinking about how they recreate a process. But ...

The founder effect is an extreme example of "genetic drift." Genes occurring at a certain frequency in the larger population will occur at a different frequency -- more or less often -- in a ...

Long before a species goes extinct, the population becomes smaller and more fragmented, shrinking the number of potential ...

Gene pools are getting dangerously shallow for many species but new research shows conservation efforts are helping to ...

In the most comprehensive global analysis of genetic diversity ever undertaken, an international team of scientists has found that genetic diversity is being lost across the globe but that ...