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

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 ...

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

Phylogenetic trees can be determined according to the data derived from a number of sources, such as body structures, behavioural observations and biochemical data. The more recent the branching point ...

Four XCV genomes from ticks were clustered with two human-derived genomes in the phylogenetic tree (Figure 1A, 1B, and 1C).

Much evidence from biological theory and empirical data indicates that, gene trees, phylogenetic trees reconstructed from different genes (loci), do not have to have exactly the same tree topologies.