This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

Plant pathologists at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) studied nearly 30 palm ...

HHMI Investigator Nicole King and Postdoctoral Researcher Jacob Steenwyk used large datasets and a combination of analyses to understand which organism roots the animal tree of life: the simple sponge ...

For ten years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) ...

The area known as the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil has long been an important fossil site, ...

Darwin knew he'd solved the paradox of how traits change across lineages, despite the fact that changes acquired over a ...

In the Amazon forest, human disturbances are now changing which trees grow, how they work, and how deep their evolutionary ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

In the world of phylogenetics, there's team sponge and team comb jelly.Which creature roots the animal tree of life — the simple sponge or the more ...

The fossils found reveal the existence of Ahshislesaurus wimani, a new, duck-billed hadrosaur from the late Cretaceous period ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode and mine the DNA of non-flowering seed plants and uncover genes that evolved to ...