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| SIV/HIV (simian/human immunodeficiency virus) is always a distressing topic. What’s the difference of SIV and HIV? In short, HIV is found in humans and SIV is found in non-human simians. SIV, also know as African Green Monkey Virus, is a retrovirus able to infect at least 33 species of African primates. The research found that SIV has been present in monkeys and apes for at least 32,000 years.... more |
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When kissing your sweetest pet dogs, I guess most of you aware that they are from the domestication of wolfs. But when it comes to the origins the cute fur balls, I bet you get no clue. As may have been the first animal to be domesticated, to date, in which geographical region the domestication of wolf occurred is still quite controversial.
The earliest fossil carnivores that can be linked ... more |
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| Domestication, the process whereby a population of animals or plants, through a process of selection, becomes accustomed to human provision and control, is a mark of human civilization. During domestication, the founder effect, which is first fully outlined by Ernst Mayr in 1942, is widespread. Founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a... more |
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As one of the earliest domesticated crops by human being, rice has undergone significant phenotypic and physiological changes during the process of transformation from wild rice to cultivated rice that contains two major subspecies “indica and japonica”. However, the genome-wide variation patterns involved in the process remains a puzzle.
In order to clarify the issue, the Kunming Institu... more |
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| No matter you like it or not, natural selection is already the key word in modern biology and you can find the signature of it at almost every corner of life science. Mitochondria are the powerhouse of eukaryotic cells. mtDNA is the structure converts the chemical energy into a form cells can use, ATP. Then, how does natural selection manipulate mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in tumorigenesis? Dr. K... more |
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