Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

An international team of researchers has achieved an unprecedented milestone: the creation of mouse stem cells capable of ...

Research in my lab works at the nexus of population biology, community ecology, and evolutionary biology to understand how plants adapt and persist in a constantly changing world. Our current research ...

Collecting, processing, and analyzing genetic information to better understand the distribution and evolution of organisms at a population level.

My research focuses on two pervasive and inter-related forms of biological change: disease emergence and species invasions. Our group uses long-term data, ecological experiments and modeling ...

"Cool" white lights—such as those in modern car headlights—endanger moths by causing them to fly erratically, new research shows. The findings are published in the journal Biology Letters.

UC Board of Regents has approved the Strathearn Ranch Natural Reserve to become the seventh addition to UC Santa Cruz’s list ...

A new study from the University of Arizona reveals that color vision in animals evolved around 500 million years ago, much ...

A study described the three-dimensional architecture of turtle genomes, which fold in a configuration unlike any other animal observed so far.

Male pregnancy is a rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom, with just three vertebrates exhibiting this behavior. The seahorse ...

are the closest living relatives of animals, and their genomes contain versions of the genes Sox and POU, known for driving ...

This ordinary-looking species of gecko – the Bynoe’s gecko – has an extraordinary biological trait: they don’t have sex.