Developing elite fruit cultivars typically requires long breeding cycles, especially in perennial woody species. This study uncovers how sexual reproduction of a fertile triploid loquat generates a ...

Everolimus for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) refractory to anti-VEGF therapy: Preliminary results of a pooled analysis of noninterventional studies. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

We used two complementary statistical approaches to address the genetic separation between the alternative chromosomal arrangements. First, we calculated F ST between populations (across loci and for ...

Advancements in genome sequencing have challenged the long-standing belief that the position of the centromere in the chromosome is fixed. Researchers from Okayama University, Japan, have analyzed ...

An appraisal. Basic tenets of cytogenetics -- The architecture of the chromosome. Viral chromosomes ; The chromosomes of protocells ; Episomes ; The chromosomes of eucells ; Euchromatin and ...

Changes in chromosome numbers may strongly affect reproductive barriers, because individuals heterozygous for distinct karyotypes are typically expected to be at least partially sterile or to show ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The 23 rd chromosome base pair contains what are known as our sex chromosomes. For most females, this ...

Triploid plants are widely valued in horticulture for desirable traits such as seedlessness, yield improvement, and stress resilience. However, most triploids exhibit low fertility, and the ...

Biological sex is all over the news lately. Between the presidential executive order affecting passport policy, moving transgender inmates between prisons and regulating women's sports, appeals to ...