Forests flanking Brazil's rivers act as "highways" that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic ...

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 ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing ...

Riverside forests help trees migrate between Amazon and Atlantic forests, shaping biodiversity over millions of years.

Humans' increasingly large footprint across the planet is forcing plants & animals to adapt and is affecting some species' evolutionary path.

Earth systems models are an important tool for studying complex processes occurring around the planet, such as those in and between the atmosphere and biosphere, and they help researchers and ...

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 ...

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 ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

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 millions of years, tree species have spread from the Amazon to Atlantic rainforests across a region that’s too arid for them to grow. How exactly they make this challenging journey has been ...