Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, ...

Using genomic tracing, researchers from Nigeria, the United States, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Belgium estimate that the ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue ...

FLORIDA — There’s a new law to help homeowners worried about potential tree damage better protect their property. New law allows homeowners to prune, remove trees that may be a danger ...

A new study rebuilds the coelacanth family tree with refined data, showing these ancient fishes experienced bursts of change ...

The Fox, or forkhead box, family of transcription factors is an evolutionarily ancient gene family that has expanded to more than 40 members in the mammalian genome. Fox genes are involved in a ...

Spruce trees grow at either high altitudes in the southern Appalachians to New England or at higher latitudes in Canada and the higher elevations of Pacific coastal mountains and the Rocky Mountains.

Comparisons are usually made pairwise with reference to a third genome 'outgroup' or by examination of pairs of paired sequences and summarized in phylogenetic trees. Bernaquez et al. investigate ...