An international research team has discovered various mechanisms in asexual mites that generate genetic diversity and thus ...

I just think the lesson is that DNA really gets around. —Nancy Moran, University of Texas at Austin If Li had been studying bacteria, finding this kind of lateral or horizontal gene transfer (HGT) ...

Critics of agricultural biotechnology have often been dismissed as modern-day Luddites. However, these critics have an understandable concern, based on a detail of the technology that has been ...

The evolutionary success of leaf beetles, the most varied herbivores on Earth, was investigated by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Max Planck Institute of ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores. Leaf beetles can be found to feed on ...

Almost all bacterial genomes show evidence of past LGT events, and the phenomenon is known to have profound effects on microbial biology. This DNA-sharing process, known as horizontal or lateral gene ...

Explore how oribatid mites have thrived for millions of years without sex, using unique strategies like parthenogenesis and gene transfer.