The two taxa, which have recently been raised to species status (Parkin et al., 2003), are geographically distributed in a leapfrog pattern, with carrion crows inhibiting western Europe and eastern ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive neurologic disorder that commonly results in paralysis and death. Despite more than a century of research, no cause of, cure for, or means of preventing ...

Stature, that is adult body height, and body mass index (BMI) are typical complex traits that have a well-established genetic component as well as well-known environmental and lifestyle factors that ...

When it comes to breeding better wheat varieties, often, though we seek to introduce desirable genes that increase yield, for example; these can come along with less wanted genes than reduce some ...

In this paper we propose a new class of statistics to test a simple hypothesis against a family of alternatives characterized by a mixture model. Unlike the likelihood ratio statistic, whose large ...