Which came first, the chicken genome or the egg genome?
Which came first, the chicken genome or the egg genome?

KGI professor contributes new insights on 'jumping genes'
KGI professor and director of KGI's PhD program has published a paper in the international online journal PLoS ONE that sheds new light on the evolution of moveable genetic elements, or "jumping genes."

A gene divided reveals the details of natural selection
In a molecular tour de force, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have provided an exquisitely detailed picture of natural selection as it occurs at the genetic level.

Evolution in the Nanoworld
The automatic molecular assembly and selection steps exhibited by the molecules, which start as random mixtures, demonstrates a fundamental step in the evolution of life.

Rebuilding the evolutionary history of HIV-1 unravels a complex loop
An essential component of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) molecular machinery responsible for infecting cells consists of functionally-specialized layers

Scientists find missing evolutionary link using tiny fungus crystal
The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the simple to the complex.

How left-handed amino acids got ahead: a demonstration of the evolution of biological homochirality in the lab
A chemical reaction that demonstrates how key molecules in the biological world might have come to be predominately left or right handed has been reported by scientists

A cricket Gene Index: a genomic resource for studying neurobiology, speciation, and molecular evolution
Here the authors report the development of expressed sequence tags in an orthopteroid insect, a model for the study of neurobiology, speciation, and evolution.

Evolution of the core and pan-genome of Streptococcus: positive selection, recombination, and genome composition
This study employs comparative evolutionary analyses of 26 Streptococcus genomes to yield an improved understanding of the relative roles of recombination and positive selection in pathogen adaptation to their hosts.

Study of protein folds offers insight into metabolic evolution
Researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed the first global family tree of metabolic protein architecture.

Discovery of a molecular mechanism underlying limb architecture
A genetic study performed by Dr. Marie Kmita and others sheds light on the origins of the architecture of arms and legs.

Novel experiment documents evolution of genome in near-real time
Researchers identified all the changes in a bacterium's complete set of genes during a 44-day evolution experiment

Sperm proteome gives "tantalising glimpse" towards the origin of sex
The first ever catalogue of the different types of proteins found in sperm could help reveal the origins of sex and explain some of the mysteries of infertility, say scientists.

A new wrinkle in evolution -- Man-made proteins
Nature, through the trial and error of evolution, has discovered a vast diversity of life from what can only presumed to have been a primordial pool of building blocks.

A potential general benefit of introns
About 30 years after the discovery of introns, they are found to reach densities of several introns per gene in a variety of eukaryotic lineages. But their benefits are still in debate. Recently, I proposed a new hypothesis on the benefit of introns, avoi

Phase distribution of spliceosomal introns: implications for intron origin
This study strongly support the introns-late hypothesis of the origin of spliceosomal introns.

Battle Of The Bubbles May Have Sparked Evolution
The first survival-of-the-fittest competition was likely a physical duel between fatty bubbles stuffed with genetic material, researchers suggest.