Discriminating between phenotypically indistinguishable heterozygous and wild-type mice presents a difficult situation for researchers attempting to find suitable breeding pairs. The authors describe ...

Your genes are made of DNA. This DNA provides instructions, which determines traits like your hair color and blood type. There are different versions of genes. Each ...

We set up crosses of Wolbachia-infected and Wolbachia-uninfected lines to look for evidence of co-adaptation between Wolbachia and host that breaks down when genomes are recombined, and Wolbachia is ...

Hemochromatosis is a condition in which too much iron builds up in the body. When people inherit the condition via their genes, it can be heterozygous or homozygous. “Heterozygous” means the person ...