Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team ...

Psychologists at the University of Padova in Italy placed three-day-old chicks in an enclosure where food was hidden behind a decorated panel. The young birds quickly learned to walk around the panel ...

Ornithologists with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have stitched together the most complete avian evolutionary tree ever, unveiling surprising relationships and offering bird lovers the illustrated ...

Phylogeny, as a biological process, refers to the historical pattern of lineage splitting and character change that generates the evolutionary relationships among organisms or genes over time. It ...

Delias sambawana, a butterfly that hails from Indonesia, at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell When Akito Kawahara ...

Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 West Seventh Avenue, Tianjin 300308, China National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology, 32 West Seventh ...

MSA Transformer takes a multiple sequence alignment as an input to reveal conservation patterns, and is trained with Masked Language Modeling objectives to capture epistasis [1]. Previous research ...

Abstract: Metagenomics is an unobtrusive science linking microbial genes to biological functions or environmental states. Classifying microbial genes into their functional repertoire is an important ...

Scientists from around the globe are using the largest mammalian genomic dataset in history to determine the evolutionary history of the human genome in the context of mammalian evolutionary history.

Ciliated protists represent one of the most primitive lineages of eukaryotes, with nuclear dimorphism, a distinctive sexual process (conjugation), and extensive genome rearrangements. Sessilida, among ...

Aceratheres are an extinct group of rhinocerotids widespread throughout Eurasia, North America, and Africa during the Neogene and characterized by the absence of nasal and/or frontal horns. The first ...