Abstract: Phylogenetic placement, the problem of placing a “query” sequence into a precomputed phylogenetic “backbone” tree, is useful for constructing large trees, performing taxon identification of ...

The humble mite, a tiny invertebrate that typically lives in small chambers on the underside of leaves, plays a mighty role ...

Seed plants, such as soybeans, store large amounts of protein in specialized organelles called protein storage vacuoles.

Elm trees have leaves that are doubly toothed around the margins and are usually asymmetrical at the base. They grow in an alternating pattern along the stem. Some elm leaves are smooth on one ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the large-scale felling of trees next to the University of Hyderabad appeared to be "pre-planned" and warned the Telangana government to restore the area or ...

If you visit the southwest corner of Madagascar, you might find a tree so old its name is Grandmother. She has three stems, fused together, so that her trunk resembles a massive rounded pot rather ...

Abstract: In bioinformatics, protein multiple sequence alignment (MSA) and phylogenetic tree construction are among the major problems for which many algorithms have been developed to improve the ...

Some 750,000 trees have been planted at mini-forest locations in Ireland in the last two-and-a-half years, as part of the 100 Million Trees Project. Founded in 2022 by siblings Richard ...

Mussununga, an oligotrophic sandy savanna ecosystem, comprises distinct physiognomies along fire, water and nutrient availability gradients. Grasslands and woodlands are constrained at the opposite ...

A late-March ice storm that left a 12-county area of northern Michigan a disaster area has left thousands of broken, damaged and fallen trees. And that is a vector for pests and disease.

ABC News has obtained several records, including U.S. Census records from the early 1900s, demonstrating that the first American pope's family tree reflects the complex racial history of this country.

A lone tree growing along an ancient Roman wall was a beloved fixture in the landscape. Why did the Sycamore Gap tree’s illegal felling spark so much emotion? The Sycamore Gap tree grew in the ...