The findings suggest a way to rescue "doomed" animal hybrids. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Genetic "dark matter" may drive the ...

The bane of growers worldwide, whiteflies are tiny insects with a lust for plant sap. Their piercing mouthparts can transmit fatal plant diseases and also weaken a plant’s ability to carry out ...

M. Jagannathan et al., “A conserved function for pericentromeric satellite DNA,” eLife, 7:e34122, 2018. Between cell divisions, pericentromeric DNA—noncoding, repetitive satellite DNA abundant around ...

For decades, the Y chromosome — one of the two human sex chromosomes — has been notoriously challenging for the genomics community to sequence due to the complexity of its structure. Now, this elusive ...