Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

An international collaboration between four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...

Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

Comparative genomics deals with the processes of evolution via the alignment ... of pairs of paired sequences and summarized in phylogenetic trees. A pangenome of wild and cultivated rice ...

While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, ...

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 ...