When COVID-19 arrived, researchers tried to build evolutionary family trees—known as phylogenetic trees—of the virus. These ...

A new method from EMBL-EBI and collaborators offers fast, easy-to-interpret confidence scores for phylogenetic trees for pandemic preparedness ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

HHMI Investigator Nicole King and Postdoctoral Researcher Jacob Steenwyk used large datasets and a combination of analyses to understand which organism roots the animal tree of life: the simple sponge ...

Darwin knew he'd solved the paradox of how traits change across lineages, despite the fact that changes acquired over a ...

A study led by the Institute of Biology Education shows that optional learning support effectively reaches the students who need it most and helps teachers manage varying skill levels in the classroom ...

A more-than-a-century-old European beech tree located in a Vancouver Island park grew from seeds obtained in Flanders Fields, ...

A UB study highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans.

Thanks to corals’ deep-sea cousins, even the most extreme environmental changes—global warming or sudden, severe variations ...