Researchers have been working toward using the gut microbiome as a clinical target for screening for colorectal cancer. This ...

Research finds diatoms evolved slowly for 100 million years and then experienced an evolutionary burst of speciation 170 million years ago.

LHASA — Chinese researchers recently discovered a new tree frog species in Metog county, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous ...

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data ...

The team also designed the dataset to update automatically as new phylogenetic information about birds becomes available. Crucially, similar techniques used to construct this evolutionary tree can be ...

Many tree species have further enhanced this cooperation ... niche space occupied by those trees are independent of their phylogenetic architecture and evolutionary history. The findings are ...

A federal court in California sided with environmentalists, striking down a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempt to withhold protections for the Joshua tree under the Endangered Species Act.

ROADIES—which stands for "Reference-free, Orthology-free, Annotation-free, Discordance-aware Estimation of Species Trees"—stands apart from existing phylogenetic tools because it uses a ...

The team also designed the dataset to update automatically as new phylogenetic information ... construct this evolutionary tree can be applied to other groups of species as well, slowly revealing ...

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 ...