Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified key characteristics underlying the high enzyme production capacity of the koji fungus Aspergillus oryzae. A team of European researchers has shed ...

Sexual selection is an evolutionary process that favours the traits of individuals who compete more successfully for mating opportunities. These traits are not necessarily those favoured by natural ...

FISHER 1 in 1930 stated his “fundamental theorem of natural selection” in the form: “The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...