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Cryptic genetic variation (CGV) is genetic variation that normally has little or no effect on phenotype but that, under atypical conditions that were rare in the history of a population, generates ...

Identifying complex mutations in the structure of an organism's genome has been difficult. But ecologists and evolutionary biologists have applied new methods of genome analysis to identify these ...

Coccolithophores are microscopic algae that form tiny limestone plates, called coccoliths, around their single cells. They are responsible for half of the limestone produced in the oceans and ...

A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population. The work, published today as a Reviewed ...

Cerion uva (L.) and Tudora megacheilos (Potiez and Michaud) are the dominant land snails of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao; both display the high degree of intraspecific character variation so often noted ...

Hadropus Schoenherr, 1826 is a monotypic genus of Naupactini (Curculionidae: Entiminae), ranging in Brazil and Paraguay. It is easily recognized by the nebulose pattern of the elytral vestiture, the ...