Thus, understanding the evolutionary history of living species amounts to understanding where on the tree of life these species' distinctive traits arose. Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as ...

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

Viral genomes represent essential elements of the phylogeny of life and have played important ... for genomic classification within the phylogenetic tree, are not polyphyletic and are capable ...

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 ...

Deep Tree: Students explore an interactive tree of life and trace the shared ancestry ... Lab with an understanding of how to build phylogenetic trees and the evidence for evolution.

“Understanding phylogenetic trees can be difficult ... experience some of the evolutionary wonders contained in the tree of life." The other tool that came out of their research is a puzzle ...

The largest timed molecular phylogenetic tree of life, called a ‘timetree’, to date includes just over 200 primate species, while the largest synthetic timetree, drawing from over 4,000 ...

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...

Researchers say strategy will help understand the history of life, monitor the spread of pathogens or create new treatments for disease.