The secret to tackling one of the United States’ most deadly chronic diseases may reside thousands of miles away in the ...

Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability ...

also known as the process of evolution. Genetic variation is usually expressed as a relative frequency, which means a proportion of the total population under study. In other words, a relative ...

A new study about tadpoles that turn into cannibals may sound like fodder for nature trivia, but it carries a much deeper ...

Cryptic genetic variation gives us a third alternative ... changes in the environment on their biological functions using a process known as canalization. This means minor changes to their ...

Individuals are not merely subject to their social environments; they choose and create them, through a process called ... theories predict that genetic variation in social environment ...

Overall, the results suggest that genetic variation influences the types of bacteria that infect wounds as well as the healing process. According to the authors, biomarkers for chronic wound ...

Alternatively, genetic variation can be increased by mutation ... these phenomena form part of the natural process leading towards evolution and speciation. Humans have undoubtedly imposed ...

The mating process is one of the most important mechanisms for maintaining genetic variation in natural populations. The emergence of sexual reproduction turned out to be the most important ...

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