evolutionary genetics News

Latest Articles

• First Large Scale Genomic Study Reveals Rapid Insecticide Evolution in South American Malaria Carrying Mosquitoes

  Published: Mar 27, 2026

  Section: Health

  A landmark study led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has sequenced over 1,000 genomes of the Anopheles darlingi mosquito, the primary malaria vector in South Ameri...

• Invasive Jumping Genes Identified as Primary Driver of Lethal Mutations in Wild Fruit Fly Populations

  Published: Mar 11, 2026

  Section: Research

  Researchers at Duke University discovered that most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are caused by invasive transposable elements rather than small DNA errors. The study, publi...