Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

A first-of-its-kind study traces the rise of ant- and termite-eaters, revealing how mammals returned to the evolutionary ...

Diet and evolutionary history have long been viewed as the main drivers of the mammalian gut microbiome. However, a large-scale study led by researchers at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of ...

In this paper, through the analysis of the state-of-the-art image phylogeny algorithms, we introduce a novel approach to deal with phylogeny forests, based on different combinations of these ...

Glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs) are the frontline medicines to treat multidrug-resistant Gram-positive infections. Resistance to GPAs warrants the development of new antibiotics. Phylogeny ...

A method of correcting for the phylogeny has been proposed. It requires that we know both the tree topology and the branch lengths, and that we be willing to allow the characters to be modeled by ...

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 ...

Molecular clues and traditional morphological characters were useful in delimiting one new species from Heterodontonyx stored in museum collections. We present phylogeny, molecular species ...

Random Forest (RF) has been applied rigorously to microbial gene abundance profiles, mapping them to functional phenotypes. The current research targets tuning RF by the evolutionary ancestry of ...

Leaf traits play key roles in plant resource acquisition and ecosystem processes; however, whether the effects of environment and phylogeny on leaf traits differ between herbaceous and woody species ...

As expected, we found that plant phylogeny exerted an important influence on the variation of leaf vein traits, whereas climate had a relatively weak effect. In addition, the altitude-related trends ...