The pace of evolution in domestication
With such dramatic and rapid variation occurring in domestic species like dogs and pigs it could be assumed that the evolutionary rates in… Read more »
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Culture vs. conservation: the murky waters of the marine turtle trade
Conservation of endangered species can often come into conflict with the lives of the indigenous people who live with them. In the Gulf of Venezuela,… Read more »
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Highlights of the BMC series: April 2018
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Evolution and Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder which persists despite its disadvantagous effects. Here, Niladri Banerjee… Read more »
The importance of community commitment to tsetse control
A tsetse control project conducted in Burkina Faso reveals the importance of the engagement of local communities.
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Editors of Fungal Biology and Biotechnology recently attended the 14th European Conference on Fungal Genetics in Haifa, Israel.… Read more »
Flat-faced, French and fashionable
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rGONAD: A new simple method for genome-editing in rats
Genome edited animals are important in the study of a whole host of scientific fields. Now new research published in BMC… Read more »