For decades, scientists have debated where bats first evolved, with Africa, Asia and North America among the proposed origins ...

Researchers have built a phylogeny-agnostic machine-learning framework that predicts strain-level phage–host interactions ...

Mammalian biology unfolds over time, within tissues and organs opaque to our eyes and instruments. We applied DNA Typewriter, ...

Genome sampling at key branches of grass evolution, combined with ancestral enzyme reconstruction, reveals when distinct ...

07/10/2026, Xalapa, Ver.- “El desconocimiento sobre las especies y sus funciones en los ecosistemas representa uno de los ...

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 ...

The tree of life is often likened to a map of the living world. Of course, a map is a human artifact: a necessary but imperfect guide to the richness of reality. As Max Telford points out in the ...

Cephalopods—a class encompassing octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses—exhibit extraordinary morphological innovation, ecological diversity and complex behaviours. Molecular phylogenetic ...

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 ...

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, ...