In biology, phylogenetic trees represent the evolutionary history and diversification of species -- the "family tree" of Life. Phylogenetic trees not only describe the evolution of a group of ...

Tree performance is generally considered as the consequence of the interplay between ecological and evolutionary processes. However, the differential effect among species and the portion of those ...

This enabled the researchers to compare ancient bacterial genomes with modern strains, creating a comprehensive phylogenetic ...

In biology, phylogenetic trees represent the evolutionary history and diversification of species – the “family tree” of Life. Phylogenetic trees not only describe the evolution of a group of organisms ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

This historical tree of life, created in 1866, outlines three kingdoms of plants, animals and protists. Illustration: Ernst HaeckelAccording to a new study partly focused on yeast, the conflicting ...

The COVID-19 phylogenetic tree, called UShER, was created by UCSC researchers and is the primary tool used by health officials worldwide to track the spread of variants in their community.

Now, nearly 150 years later, scientists have vast amounts of data with which to build so-called phylogenetic trees, the modern version of Mivart’s structure. Advances in DNA sequencing technology and ...

As of June 16, 2022, there were 10,594,265 sequences displayed in the UShER COVID-19 phylogenetic tree. 10 million sequences of COVID-19’s genomic code have now been organized into a phylogenetic tree ...