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Ice Age wolf DNA reveals dogs trace ancestry to two separate wolf populations

An international group of geneticists and archaeologists, led by the Francis Crick Institute, have found that the ancestry of dogs can be traced to at least two populations of ancient wolves. The work moves us a step closer to uncovering the mystery of where dogs underwent domestication, one of the biggest unanswered questions about human prehistory.

The Doñana Biological Station – CSIC participates in an international initiative to describe the genome of all European biodiversity

The European Reference Genome Atlas joins more than 600 researchers from 48 countries in Europe.
The genomic resources will help advance fundamental questions in science, biodiversity conservation, and public health.

Microevolutionary and demographic consequences of an evolutionary transition to flightlessness

. A new study developed at Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC) has employed genomic data to infer the consequences of dispersal-related trait variation in short-winged and long-winged forms of the taxonomically controversial Corsican grasshopper (Chorthippus corsicus).

Macroevolutionary shift in the size of amphibian genomes and the role of life history and climate

Genome size varies enormously from one species to another, and amphibians are the group of vertebrates where genome size varies the most. Amphibians are also really old lineages that have been evolving for millions of years, diversifying and adapting to highly contrasting environments, from the warm and humid tropics to cold regions at high latitudes or high elevations. Amphibians have also evolved a frenzy of reproductive modes ranging from the well known case of aquatic tadpoles that...

Characterization of the accessible genome in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Human malaria is a devastating disease and a major cause of poverty in resource-limited countries. To develop and adapt within hosts Plasmodium falciparum undergoes drastic switches in gene expression. To identify regulatory regions in the parasite genome, a genome-wide profiling of chromatin accessibility was performed in two culture-adapted isogenic subclones at four developmental stages during the intraerythrocytic cycle by using the Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin by sequencing...
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