Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, ...

Get festive with this salami Christmas tree! A fun and tasty Italian appetizer for your holiday celebrations. Easy to make and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser! This company says it has produced the Holy ...

Abstract: Phylogenetic placement is the problem of placing sequences into a given phylogenetic tree, called a “backbone tree”. EPA-ng and pplacer are the two most accurate phylogenetic placement ...

Birds are extraordinary in their diversity, ecological breadth, and global distribution. This makes them a powerful system to study ecology and evolution, particularly as large-scale datasets on ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

This tutorial shows an easiy way to reconstruct a phylogenetic tree from whole genome bacterial genomes. The workflow identifies orthologous single-copy genes shared between several bacteria genomes ...

A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier and faster to study the evolutionary relationships between species. A new computational tool improves the analysis of ...

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 order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...