Selective breeding is an important middle and high school science topic because it helps students understand heredity, variation, artificial selection, adaptations, genetics, and how humans have ...

A new study reveals the genetic load of deleterious variations in different dog breeds, highlighting the genetic damage done by hundreds of years of selective breeding. When the symbiotic relationship ...

A new breed of honey bees provides a major advance in the global fight against the parasitic Varroa mite, new research shows. A new breed of honey bees provides a major advance in the global fight ...

Decades of selective breeding and intensive agricultural practices have reshaped cattle genetics—often at the expense of valuable diversity preserved in traditional herds—according to new research ...

Sometimes it is difficult to believe that all dogs are related. How can the tiny chihuahua be from the same species as the massive Great Dane? A male beagle is usually between 14 and 16 inches tall; a ...

Coral populations have genetic potential to adapt to warming oceans, according to new research by Southern Cross University researchers. "Our previous work revealed that corals in an extreme ...

"Explore a massive discus breeding facility in Germany housing thousands of colorful fish across roughly 50,000 liters of ...

A fungal pathogen has rendered the Southern corroboree frog functionally extinct. Can genomics technologies pull the species back from the brink? New research links early-life exposure to a common gut ...

Australia’s vital kelp forests are disappearing in many areas as our waters warm and our climate changes. While we wait for rapid action to slash carbon emissions – including the United Nations ...

Decades of selective breeding and intensive agricultural practices have reshaped cattle genetics - often at the expense of valuable diversity preserved in traditional herds - according to new research ...