South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

This study focuses on determining the method for constructing phylogenetic tree from genetic dataset of various species. The genetic tree construction process requires Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA ...

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

Kochi: Kerala Forest Research Institute identified a fungal infection in Dipterocarpus bourdillonii, known as Chiratta-anjili ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seger GDS, Duarte LDS, Debastiani VJ, Kindel A, and Jarenkow JA (2013) Discriminating the effects of phylogenetic hypothesis, tree resolution, and clade age estimates on phylogenetic signal ...

The research team, composed of members from the Central South Inventory and Planning Institute of the National Forestry and ...

The Complete Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs gives comprehensive descriptions to satisfy any arborist. Focusing on vegetation that is extraordinary for its adaptational ability, wild beauty, or ...

Planting trees has plenty of benefits, but this popular carbon-removal method alone can't possibly counteract the planet-warming emissions caused by the world's largest fossil-fuel companies. To ...

A new study finds that to offset all the planet-warming carbon emissions from fossil fuel reserves, trees would have to entirely cover an area the size of North and Central America combined.