EPA’s repeal of the endangerment finding could be the largest deregulation in history, and it will have a huge impact on agriculture and the biofuels industry. If the agency no longer determines ...

We have little understanding about the evolutionary forces that influence the genes underlying complex-trait variation. Genome-wide association studies and analyses of amino-acid polymorphisms are ...

Technologies for selecting segments of large genomes for resequencing will reveal biologically important sequence variation. The four reports in Nature Methods and Nature Genetics describe novel ...

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A species is a distinct group of organisms and the most basic unit used to measure life on Earth. However, there’s no single definition of a species, meaning this vital concept in biology can be ...

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