Inside an ant colony, queens reproduce while workers care for young and maintain a society built around shared labor. For ...

The Australian redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti), a cousin of the North American black widow spider, is known to practice sexual cannibalism, which is somewhat common among spider species. However ...

Male Australian redback spiders perform an acrobatic somersault during mating that sends their abdomen directly toward the ...

A wild cannibalistic sexual behavior in spiders has a simple genetic explanation, new study finds.

For more than 60 years, evolutionary biologists have debated whether a unique genetic system found in ants, bees and wasps ...

New research reveals non-Mendelian epigenetic inheritance in mice, challenging genetic assumptions and suggesting new avenues ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including the ...

Babies’ eye colors can change up to 1 year old because most pigment forms in the first six months. Blue eyes are recessive and need both alleles to be the same, while brown eyes are dominant. It is ...

Having a family member with fibromyalgia increases your chances of getting it. Genetic research may help find better treatments and diagnostics for fibromyalgia. Blood relatives have a higher risk of ...

Lp(a) is largely immutable across the lifespan, enabling a single adult measurement to identify inherited risk and trigger cascade screening given co-dominant inheritance patterns. Recurrent ASCVD ...