Over recent decades, microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been the two most common molecular markers used in the fields of ecology, evolution and conservation. However, during the last ...

Investigating the population genetics of fungi may be a challenging task because of the complexity of their mating systems (for example, Nieuwenhuis and James, 2016). Besides sexual reproduction and ...

In a recent article published in Nature Medicine, researchers investigated the potential implications of single-nucleotide variations in gut-residing bacterial species (microbiome) on human health.

Scientists in the U.S. and Korea have developed a statistical method for estimating the broad numbers of DNA variations that impact on different physical traits, such as height or childhood IQ, and on ...

What are Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms? Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are variations in a genome’s base pair in a DNA sequence, and occur in approximately 1 out of 800 base pairs. These ...