Genetic analysis reveals bluebottles are actually four distinct species, overturning two centuries of scientific belief.

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Police in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County helped out a resident after he found a unique visitor on his porch.

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Neutral evolution is driven by random transmission, gene conversion, stochastic replication etc., which collectively constitute genetic drift. Hence, genetic drift is the fundamental force of ...

This study presents a useful model of genetic drift by incorporating variance in reproductive success, aiming to address several apparent paradoxes in molecular evolution. However, some of the ...

The second, equally rare color, is a white turtle. These are sea turtles dealing with leucism. These extremely rare cases occur as a genetic defect typically in sea turtles that spend a great deal of ...

Turtles are hard-shelled reptiles who live on land and sea in many parts of the world. They mostly live in solitude, coming out of their shells when they are hungry and tucking back in when they sense ...

Collaborators have already begun compiling the world’s largest dataset covering all seven species of marine turtles, including nesting sites, satellite tracking data, and genetic information. One of ...