The National Science Foundation will fund research at UC Santa Cruz that will examine the DNA of brown bears in the lower 48 states, where the iconic beast’s numbers have seen catastrophic declines ...

Population genetics explores the distribution and change in frequency of alleles within and between populations, while genetic diversity underpins the capacity of species to adapt to environmental ...

To test if a single gene could affect an entire ecosystem, a research team conducted a lab experiment with a plant and its associated ecosystem of insects. They found that plants with a mutation at a ...

What is biodiversity? spiders as exemplars of the biodiversity concept -- What is conservation biology? An analysis of the critical ecosystem partnership fund's strategies and funding priorities -- ...

Laura Bertola does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Scientists have challenged the common assumption that genetic diversity of a species is a key indicator of extinction risk. The scientists demonstrate that there is no simple relationship between ...

A habitat-building coralline algae that provides a vital nursing ground for marine species and an important blue carbon ...

Brent Rendel couldn’t believe what he was seeing, so he double and tripled checked to make sure. In 2017, he thought he found two ringer soybean varieties, but the truth is he found one, sold by two ...

As researchers whose work is largely focused on genetics and who self-identify as Black men, arguably one of the most disadvantaged groups in the United States, we have had similar formative ...

More than 50 years ago on the shoreline of a rocky tide pool, the US ecologist Robert Paine found out that the removal of a single species from an ecosystem could dramatically alter its structure and ...