Large-scale comparison of gene families across 1154 Saccharomycotina genomes revealed that gene gains and losses drive yeast ...

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

If you're wondering why squirrels seem to vastly outnumber raccoons—or why certain car brands dominate city streets—a team of ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...

Phylogenies are often represented graphically in the form of a 'tree' and enable scientists ... prediction that combines codon statistics and phylogenetic information to enhance the precision ...

In this paper, we propose an efficient tree-based method for FE in which at each step a new feature is created by selecting and linearly combining two features such that the MI between the new feature ...

Eastern white pines are a historic symbol of New England. When Europeans first arrived to the Northeast, primeval forests of white pines towered 250 feet tall, grander than any other tree in New ...

Neil and Sophie talk about gene editing, designer babies and how many errors Neil might have in his genetic code.

They can also plant trees, or cover crops such as peas or grasses to avoid leaving the soil bare after harvest and risking erosion. We wanted to understand what kinds of diversification strategies are ...

BOTANISTS have found a stand of rare trees in Zanzibar not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa. The intsia trees (Intsia bijuga) were found growing within moist coastal forest in the north of ...

We also noted rare instances of enzymes active toward galactobiose and mannobiose, with no clear correlation to their position on the phylogenetic tree (Table 1). An interesting and unexpected result ...