Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis ...

Alignment and sequencing errors are a major concern in molecular evolution, and this valuable study represents a welcome improvement for genome-wide scans of positive selection. This new method seems ...

An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus ...

Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million ...

Sharks are, by any definition, incredibly badass. They’re the only animals around that can claim to have chowed down on ...

This project aims to perform tree classification using the DBSCAN algorithm. Instead of using traditional coordinates, distances between points are employed for the classification. If you would like ...

GToTree is a user-friendly workflow for phylogenomics intended to give more researchers the capability to easily create phylogenomic trees. Documentation and examples can be found at the wiki here, ...

From schools of fish darting away from sharks to flocks of starlings swirling through the sky, the animal kingdom is full of ...

A team co-led by a Purdue University researcher has found that groups of fungi influence global tree species in distinct ways ...

New research has found that Swahili societies in Zanzibar landscaped baobab trees into their settlements 1,000 years ago, and ...