Environmental factors can lead to heritable non-genetic changes in the mammalian germ line that affect behaviour in the offspring across several generations. These changes influence behaviours related ...
When children are unmotivated at school, new research suggests their genes may be part of the equation. A study of more than 13,000 twins from six countries found that 40 to 50 percent of the ...
Previous investigations have demonstrated close genetic linkage between loci governing expression of strain-specific idiotypes and immunoglobulin heavy (H) chain allotype (i.e., the CH locus). This ...
Luke Dunning receives funding from The Natural Environment Research Council. Little did biologist Gregor Mendel know that his experiments with sweet peas in a monastery garden in Brno, Czech Republic, ...