Plants are usually seen as stationary life forms, quietly supporting environments. But plant communities and populations are ...
A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...
Scientists call the phenomenon “evolutionary rescue” — when a species’ genetic diversity allows it to survive amid extreme ...
Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time ...
The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.
Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a ...
While the investigation of species-level traits has revealed broad effects of environmental disturbances on communities and ecosystems, it is vital to ...