New University of Colorado Boulder-led research finds that the traits that make vertebrates distinct from invertebrates were made possible by the emergence of a new set of genes 500 million years ago, ...

Whole-genome duplications are rare evolutionary events in which all the chromosomes and genes of a species are doubled. This supplies new genetic material to the gene pool and can provide an ...

University of Colorado Boulder-led research was distinguished in Nature, an international weekly journal of science, for a significant discovery in vertebrate evolution. The findings reveal that the ...