Phylogenetic trees summarize evolutionary relationships between organisms, and tools to analyze collections of phylogenetic trees enable contrasts between different genes’ ancestry. The BHV metric ...

From pollinating plants to dispersing seeds, birds play a variety of crucial roles that help to keep ecosystems in balance.

Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary relationships ...

A phylogenetic tree shows the points at which lineages have diverged and how new species have evolved from a common ancestor. Phylogenetic trees can be determined according to the data derived from a ...

Streamlining genetic analysis for phylogenetic studies Date: January 23, 2025 Source: Hokkaido University Summary: A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier ...

Facing sea level rise and food insecurity, 17 families from the Carteret Islands have relocated to nearby Bougainville, bringing hundreds of specimens of trees and plants, representing dozens of ...

Phylogenetic analysis confirmed the specimen as P. baudonii, with genetic material from Benin grouping it with other P. baudonii from Tanzania and other unknown regions, forming a well-supported clade ...

The number of trees threatened with extinction is more than double the number of all birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians threatened combined, according to the assessment.

This week, marvel at a tree grown from an ancient seed, learn why Mount Everest is undergoing a growth spurt, discover a Viking mass burial, and more.

Much evidence from biological theory and empirical data indicates that, gene trees, phylogenetic trees reconstructed from different genes (loci), do not have to have exactly the same tree topologies.