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

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

New research shows that baobab tree flowers have adapted to meet the needs of either bats or moths, and without these ...

A phylogeny is a hypothetical reconstruction of the evolutionary relationships of a group of organisms or a set of sequences (nucleotide or amino acid). Phylogenies are often represented graphically ...