A simple breeding experiment, combined with genetic analysis, can rapidly uncover genes that promote cooperation and higher yields of plant populations, according to a new study. The results have the ...

Lyudmila Trut, the geneticist who led the decades-long experiment that created hundreds of ultralovable domesticated foxes on a farm in Novosibirsk, Russia, died peacefully in her sleep on October 9, ...

Our understanding of how domestication changes the neurobiology of a species may be wrong, results from a 60-year experiment to breed tame foxes suggest. The findings could also have implications for ...