Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of ...

Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive ...

Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, ...

Known as the "Queen of Climbers," the genus Clematis boasts over 300 species widely distributed across the globe. From tropical rainforests to ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...

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 ...

We revised the scoring of 112 morphological characters in 46 coelacanth genera, yielding a phylogeny that remains stable over 420 million years Our analysis groups Paleozoic coelacanths into a ...

Birds are extraordinary in their diversity, ecological breadth, and global distribution. This makes them a powerful system to study ecology and evolution, particularly as large-scale datasets on ...

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 ...

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Abstract: Similar to organisms that evolve in biology, a document can change slightly overtime, and each new version may, in turn, generate other versions. Multimedia phylogeny investigates the ...