Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

Learn about comparative gene expression studies in Alzheimer's disease and other conditions in Mayo Clinic's Precision Medicine in Neurodegeneration Lab.

Taner, M.D., Ph.D., who leads Mayo Clinic's Precision Medicine in Neurodegeneration Lab, studies complex genetic interactions in Alzheimer's disease.

Reconstructing the origin of cultivated plants often represents a real puzzle for scientists. Indeed, many species, like wheat or precisely the strawberry, possess genomes resulting from the ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

Genetics helped scarlet monkeyflower rebound after California’s megadrought — a real‑world example of rapid evolution.

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue of species hit by climate change, but there are limits ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

In their fight against climate change, west coast wildflower species like the scarlet monkeyflower have found ways to endure ...

Scientists call the phenomenon “evolutionary rescue” — when a species’ genetic diversity allows it to survive amid extreme threats.