Anthropogenic activity is the top factor directly related to the extinction of several animal species.
The last Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) population on the Commander Islands (…

The North Caucasus played a key role during the ancient colonization of Eurasia and the
formation of its cultural and genetic ancestry. Previous archeogenetic studies described a …

Gain and loss of DNA methylation in cells is a dynamic process that tends to achieve an
equilibrium. Many factors are involved in maintaining the balance between DNA methylation …

Five ecologically and phenotypically divergent ecomorphs of the genus Salmo are known
from a landlocked alpine lake in the Caucasus, Lake Sevan. It is an example of sympatric …

Background There has been a notable increase in interest in the transcriptional regulator
Kaiso, which has been linked to the regulation of clonal hematopoiesis, myelodysplastic …

Embryonic temperature has a lasting impact on muscle phenotype in vertebrates, involving
complex molecular mechanisms that encompass both protein-coding and non-coding genes. …

The Koban archaeological culture is a well-known Northern and Central Caucasus culture
that has been widely distributed throughout this region during the end of Bronze Age, and the …

In different countries, interest in the commercial cultivation of the olive has recently greatly
increased, which has led to the expansion of its range. The Crimean Peninsula is the northern …

Muscle growth in teleosts is a complex biological process orchestrated by numerous protein-coding
genes and non-coding RNAs. A few recent studies suggest that circRNAs are …

9 Russian Vitis vinifera grape varieties and the European variety Muscat Hamburg were
sequenced and genotyped using 527 SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) with high minor …