Direct-to-consumer genetic genealogy services that allow users to upload their own datasets are vulnerable to attacks on genetic privacy that exploit the structure of genetic variation.
The rat is much more than a simple model, and a better appreciation of the natural history of wild rats would increase its value as a research organism.
Machine learning and experimental tests of receiver bias identify signal components critical to correct species classification in guenons, linking face pattern diversity to selection for species discrimination.
Two studies suggest that a determined adversary may be able to obtain genetic information that they should not have permission to access from some genealogy databases.
Andrew B Morgenthaler, Wallis R Kinney ... Shelley D Copley
Mutations elsewhere in the genome play critical roles in improving fitness during amplification and divergence of a gene encoding a weak-link enzyme whose inefficiency limits growth rate.
Tim A Crombie, Stefan Zdraljevic ... Erik C Andersen
Hawaiian Caenorhabditis elegans harbor high levels of genetic diversity that might represent the complex patterns of ancestral diversity in the species prior to human influence.
Homology of vertebrate skull structures should be based on evolutionary continuity and an appreciation of germ layer origins and inductive signaling in the embryonic head.
