Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

Most sexually reproducing species have an even chromosome copy number, but the dog rose does not. What explains its unusual pattern of chromosome inheritance? Joiselle B. Fernandes is in the ...

One of the fundamental rules of inheritance states that different alleles (gene copies) of a trait, such as sex, are inherited with equal frequency. "However, we have long known that there are genes ...