The Syngnathid family of fishes, including the sea horse, sea dragon, and pipefish, is known for its unique body plan and male brooding behavior. Here, Genome Biology ’s Dominique Morneau discusses the genomic basis for these exceptional traits.
The surgical castration of male pigs gives rise to a number of welfare issues, in order to tackle this, the ‘European Declaration on alternatives to surgical castration of pigs’ set a final goal to phase out surgical castration by 2018. Published today in the journal Porcine Health Management, a new study reviews the progress of this declaration across 24 countries and looks at the alternatives to surgical castration being used.
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As 2016 draws to a close, Dominique Morneau of Genome Biology highlights some of the editors’ favorite articles from the past year, including those that were highly accessed, shared, liked and discussed.
Back in 2000, Genome Biology started to publish what were called ‘Deposited research articles’. These were papers that had been submitted to the journal but were still in the process of being peer reviewed, and this was a new concept for biologists: using the internet to give scientists access to research results before publication in… Read more »
Genetic erosion following extreme population declines can become an added burden for the recovery of endangered species. In a study just published in Genome Biology based on whole genome sequences of the Iberian lynx my colleagues and I report extremely low levels of genetic diversity and an excess of deleterious variants as major consequences of… Read more »
Earlier this week the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology was held in San Francisco. In attendance was Associate Editor for BMC Biology, Graham Bell, and here he discusses some of the meeting’s highlights, and lessons for 2017