An organism suitable for studying a specific trait, disease, or phenomenon, due to its short generation time, characterized genome, or similarity to humans; examples are a fly, fish, rodent or pig ...

Two of the strongest applications of RNAi in model organisms are genome-wide RNAi ... phenotypic change — natural variation, selection, genetic drift and developmental change — occur in ...

1 Hoffman's team reported that on the East Coast of Australia, the classical latitudinal genetic clines of Drosophila have shifted over the past 20 years an equivalent of 4 degrees latitude (some 400 ...

Current research at IBG uses large scale family, twin, adoption, and molecular genetic studies in humans, and behavioral and molecular genetic studies in model organisms, in order to understand ...

These organisms are also successful models because of their versatility. “The best model species are ones that are not just two dimensional,” said Tristan Long, an evolutionary geneticist at Wilfrid ...

In a new paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics researchers from the University of Vermont and Trinity College ...

This course explores fundamental concepts in classical and molecular genetics. We will examine how studies in genetic model organisms (including budding yeast, Drosophila, and C. elegans) have yielded ...

Unlike traditional microscopes that use light or lenses, DNA microscopy creates images by calculating interactions among ...

Research in the Leinwand lab focuses on unraveling mechanisms of genetic heart and skeletal muscle diseases using animal models ... we also work to understand physiologic heart muscle growth and loss ...

Researchers studying over 2,000 Ashkenazi Jewish centenarians uncovered two rare IGF-1 gene variants linked to exceptional ...

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...