Evolutionary relationships between organisms are frequently derived as phylogenetic trees inferred from multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). The MSA parameter space is exponentially large, so tens of ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by the rules we thought biology followed. While sequencing DNA from a tiny ...

Given a set X of taxa, a phylogenetic X-tree T that is only partially resolved, and a collection of characters on X, we consider the problem of finding a resolution (refinement) of T that minimizes ...

When one bird was immobile, the cat almost always ignored it in favor of its mobile comrade: “After TI was induced in a bird, ...

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

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 ...

Abstract: Dipterocarp forests of SE Asia are rich in ant-plant interactions. Many of the characteristic pioneer trees in these forests belong to the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) of which a high ...

The rise of data-driven catalyst design has led to an increasing availability of curated catalyst datasets. These datasets likely contain historical trends that could guide research, but extracting ...

However, hybridization and polyploidization have posed significant challenges to phylogenetic and taxonomic studies within this genus. Here, we assemble the first complete chloroplast and ...