The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have ...

In a new study involving whole-genome data, researchers present “CASTER,” a tool that uses arrangements in DNA sequences known as site patterns to infer “species trees,” which are diagrams that depict ...

For decades, biologists have used evolutionary or phylogenetic trees to map how species and genes diverge from common ancestors. These trees are traditionally built by comparing DNA or protein ...

Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals but aren’t found in reptiles, birds or amphibians Sarah Kuta Daily ...

Researchers at Hokkaido University have developed a new computational tool to help evolutionary biologists analyze complex genetic data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of species and the ...

Electrical engineers have developed a better way to perform the comparative analysis of entire genomes. This approach can be used to study relationships between different species across geological ...

New research headed by scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) has demonstrated how the three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a study in Nature Communications. It is the first time ...

A nearly gapless genome sequence of the echidna, an egg-laying mammal with multiple ... methods can uncover complex evolutionary events that shaped the mammalian tree of life millions of years ...