Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 105, No. 16 (Apr. 22, 2008), pp. 5980-5985 (6 pages) Genes encoded by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exist in large ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Contrary to inheritance laws the scientific world has accepted for more than 100 years, some plants revert to normal traits carried by their grandparents, bypassing genetic ...

Home > Pressemitteilung: Targeted inheritance of sex improves ... A new study from Bernhard Herrmann’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics shows how targeted, non-Mendelian ...

Increasingly, biologists are finding that non-genetic variation acquired during the life of an organism can sometimes be passed on to offspring -- a phenomenon known as epigenetic inheritance. A new ...

New findings of researchers from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Mauro Mandrioli, Valentina Monti and Gian Carlo Manicardi) show that in aphids the two X chromosomes have a different ...

The year was 1900. Three European botanists — one Dutch, one German and one Austrian — all reported results from breeding experiments in plants. Each claimed that they had independently discovered ...

Researchers at RIKEN have uncovered a mechanism by which the effects of stress in the fly species Drosophila are inherited epigenetically over many generations through changes to the structure of ...