When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to DNA, the four-letter code containing the instructions for building a living organism. Scientists know that DNA encodes everything from hair ...

Advances in reproductive genetics are bringing greater attention to a part of our genetic inheritance that is very different from the DNA we receive from both parents i.e. mitochondrial DNA, and mtDNA ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human ...

Bivalves are an extraordinary class of animals in which species with a doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA have been described. DUI is characterized as a mitochondrial homoplasmy ...

Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, an obligate fungal pathogen, threatens wheat production worldwide. Using 319 genomes and virulence data from 234 isolates globally, this study constructs its ...

Lamia Wahba is studying how information outside the genetic code can pass between generations and what that means for evolution and disease. When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to ...

Why do mitochondria matter to an egg? Mitochondria are responsible for producing ATP, the energy that cells need to function. An egg has a particularly high energy requirement as it matures, undergoes ...