The genetics of sex-ratio variation have important implications for the evolution of the sex ratio for two reasons. First, additive genetic variance is required for the evolution of any trait, ...
Biologists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have led a study to sequence and analyse the genomes of four apple snail species in the family Ampullariidae. The researchers discovered that the ...
GOLDEN apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata), a freshwater species native to South America, are best known in Southeast Asia as a major agricultural pest. Introduced to the Philippines in the 1980s to ...