In an era where climate change threatens food security, scientists worldwide are searching for reliable ways to improve crop ...

Climate change and unpredictable weather threaten global food security by disrupting agricultural cycles. Now, Japanese ...

The combination of two individuals' different MHC (major histocompatibility locus) genes gives their offspring an advantage in beating back disease organisms. So the mice could smell a genetic ...

Balancing selection, in contrast to directional selection, maintains genetic polymorphism in populations. For example, if heterozygotes at a locus have higher fitness than homozygotes (a scenario ...

2b) and parametric linkage analysis under the dominant model revealed weak evidence for linkage (hlod of 1.26, α=29%) at the same locus on chromosome 3q21. It was only under the assumption of ...

The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the so-called locus coeruleus and the ventral tegmental area permanently alter brain activity in the hippocampus region ...