Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate ...

Max Telford translated the technical effort behind studying evolution into a relatable story for every reader in The Tree of ...

Read me first! -- Tutorial : estimate a tree! -- Acquiring -- Aligning the sequences -- Major methods for estimating phylogenetic trees -- Neighbor-joining trees -- Drawing phylogenetic trees -- ...

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The new model focuses on phylogenetic diversity, which is very different from counting species, today's standard measure of biodiversity. The same number of species (three blue circles) can have a ...

Biologists will be able to reconstruct the process of evolution, determine relationships between species and build phylogenetic trees with greater accuracy thanks to a new method for identifying ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications reveals that the three-dimensional structure of proteins can help uncover ...

More genetic data is available than ever before to help build evolutionary trees, but scientists are finding that different genes even in the same organism can tell conflicting stories. Read Later ...

The reconstruction of phylogenies from DNA or protein sequences is a major task of computational evolutionary biology. Common phenomena, notably variations in mutation rates across genomes and ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have determined the genetic lineage of a now extinct plant population from Nishinoshima, a volcanic island whose frequent eruptions periodically "reset" ...