This marks the first-ever generation of DNA barcodes for the elusive species, placing it within a clearer taxonomic framework and revealing its lineage as an ancient Gondwanan relic ...

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

Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that allow for the representation of nontreelike evolutionary events, like recombination, hybridization, or lateral gene transfer.

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.

This endangered rodent is unique to our region, found only in the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge and Caswell Memorial State Park along the Stanislaus River in Ripon; it had not been ...

Molecular trees of trypanosomes have confirmed conventionally accepted genera, but often produce topologies that are incongruent with knowledge of the evolution, systematics, and biogeography of hosts ...

Kroger on Goss Avenue in Germantown closed over the weekend after evidence of a rodent infestation was discovered on multiple aisles.

Fear and loathing of rodents gives way to admiration and gastronomic appreciation.