The image shows the ‘phylogenetic tree’ of a group of genes called Amt, found in SAR11 bacteria. Different versions of these genes, which may influence how the bacteria take up and process ...

When trees and soil fungi form close associations with each other, both partners benefit. Many tree species have further ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

Historically, most human mpox infections have resulted from zoonotic transmission --m eaning from animals to humans -- and these spillovers have rarely led to human-to-human transmission. But during ...

Historically, most human mpox infections have resulted from zoonotic transmission—meaning from animals to humans—and these spillovers ...

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data ...

A phylogeny is a hypothetical reconstruction of the evolutionary relationships of a group of organisms or a ... graphically in the form of a 'tree' and enable scientists to find new relationships ...

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 ...

You may recall that Dr. Kim VanderWaal’s group in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine has been classifying PRRS ...

To build this comprehensive phylogenetic tree, the researchers integrated data on 9,239 bird ... Moreover, the approach used to build the tree can be adapted to study other groups of animals and ...