The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) forms part of an international consortium that is preparing the Tree of Sex ...

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers discover that "introners," transposable elements, are responsible for spreading noncoding DNA ...

Giant viruses, like the ones found in Yellowstone's hot springs, have been turning up in many odd corners of the planet.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps the species survive. Some pieces of DNA are more like parasites, along for ...

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As a result, there are few, if any, evolutionary intermediates visible in the phylogenetic tree leading up to eukaryotes. This missing link has been referred to as the black hole at the heart of ...

The rooting of a lipid-based signalling in eukaryotes during early Opisthokonta evolution possibly ... Dip2 is recruited parallel to PKC in the tree of life at the root of Opisthokonta evolution ∼1.2 ...