An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

A spat between birds at a backyard birdfeeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in ...

They shoot up quickly and are pretty year-round. This tree grows 60 feet tall and 40 feet wide with a loosely pyramidal shape. It boasts silvery bark and three-lobed leaves that turn bright yellow, ...

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

School of Pharmacy, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dalian, China Introduction: Blechnopsis orientalis (L.) C. Presl is a medicinal and edible fern species belonging to the ...

We designed a phylogenetic model of dispersal, extinction, and speciation that allows regional features to influence rates of biogeographic change and applied it to the neotropical radiation of Anolis ...

This figure represents a gene tree embedded within a species tree illustrating the ... The G&OM alignment was analyzed to identify the closest outgroup of the opsin family. This alignment included the ...