Ancient genes from single-celled organisms have been used to reprogram mouse cells and influence embryonic development, ...

A new genus and species of four-winged pennaraptoran dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northern China is adding another ...

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 ...

Evolutionary relationships, or phylogeny, involves studying evolutionary paths or lineages of organisms and is often represented by a phylogenetic tree. A phylogenetic tree shows the points at which ...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) is becoming an increasingly important tool in diverse scientific fields from ecological biomonitoring to wastewater surveillance of viruses. The fundamental challenge in eDNA ...

The great diversity of microbial life is the remaining major reservoir of unknown biological diversity on earth. To undestand this vast, but largely unperceived diversity with its untapped genetic, ...

A groundbreaking study presents the most exhaustive frog evolutionary tree, spanning 5,242 species. The research proposes a revised timeline for frog evolution and introduces innovative software, ...

Researchers, including Jeff Streicher, Senior Curator in Charge, Amphibians and Reptiles at the Natural History Museum, London, have unveiled the most extensive evolutionary tree of frogs (anuran ...

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.

Researchers from Texas A&M University have used the largest mammalian genomic dataset to track the evolutionary history of mammals, concluding that mammal diversification began before and accelerated ...

A new mammalian tree of life has been created by a pioneering new study led by scientists from the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. It provides a definitive answer to ...

Sanderson developed novel interactive software for visualizing phylogenetic trees representing millions of sequences. This is a fundamental advance over previous software that is typically limited to ...