2025-10-06

They are building the impact company of the future with genetic diversity at its core

From lab to real life – new tech helps breeders protect animal health and genetic diversity.

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2025-07-01

Genomes reveal the Norwegian lemming as one of the youngest mammal species

Using whole genome sequencing and cutting-edge analyses researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered the surprising evolutionary history of the Norwegian lemming (Lemmus lemmus), revealing it to be one of the most recently evolved mammal species. The results published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveal that the Norwegian lemming is a distinct species that split from its closest relative, the Western Siberian lemming, approximately 35,000 years ago — just before the peak of the last Ice Age.

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2025-06-24

Cold winters halt the northward spread of species in a warming climate

As the climate warms, many species are shifting northward into areas that were previously too cold for them. A new study on the wall brown butterfly, published in the scientific journal PNAS, shows that rapid evolution can aid this process – but only up to a point. Cold winters stop further expansion beyond certain climatic limits.

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