For decades, scientists were baffled by why thorny skates in the North Atlantic came in two distinct sizes. Despite extensive ...

Conditional gene targeting based on excision or inversion of loxP-flanked DNA segments by Cre recombinase is a powerful technology for the analysis of gene function, but unexpected expression ...

Gene expression analysis showed that genome ... of chromatin in the following generations after the occurrence of an inversion." "Our results prove that inversions can be specifically generated ...

That is similar to what occurs in certain prokaryotes, or single-celled creatures like bacteria when they go through a process known as inversion. A fundamental tenet of biology that one gene can ...