Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a genetic "toggle switch" to help them control plants in ways that ...

A gene that regulates the development of roots in vascular plants is also involved in the organ development of liverworts—land plants so old they don't even have proper roots. The Kobe ...

A gene that regulates the development of roots in vascular plants is also involved in the organ development of liverworts — land plants so old they don’t even have proper roots. The Kobe ...

Dynamic evolution of pectinases The analyses also revealed that the vast majority of the beetle species use either their own pectinases, acquired through horizontal gene transfer, or the ...

Roy Kirsch et al. Symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer promote herbivory in the megadiverse leaf beetles. Current Biology, 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028 ...

The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive outbreaks of the disease. Lily Peck of Imperial ...

They cover almost 40% of the Earth’s landmass and make up the majority of human calorie intake. Horizontal gene transfer between grass species has been found in wild and cultivated species alike.

More information: Armin Dadras et al, Environmental gradients reveal stress hubs pre-dating plant terrestrialization, Nature Plants (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01491-0 ...

From these gene expression profiles, evolutionary neuroscientists can identify a wealth of detailed differences between individual neurons.

One of the most long-standing, fundamental mysteries of biology surrounds the poorly understood origins of introns. Introns are segments of noncoding DNA that must be removed from the genetic code ...

"Our study changes the conventional view on land-plant evolution," says senior author Jinling Huang, a biologist at East Carolina University. "I have suspected that horizontal gene transfer helped ...

The first comprehensive analysis of viral horizontal gene transfer (HGT) illustrates the extent to which viruses pick up genes from their hosts to hone their infection process, while at the same ...