The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by studying ancient and modern DNA.

The tool, called PsiPartition, improves both the computational efficiency of the data analysis and the accuracy of the ...

Second, the detection of the 16S rRNA sequence ... Tree of Life Evolutionary biologists used the sequences of multiple genomes of diverse life-forms to construct and compare thousands of ...

We propose that four criteria should be considered when determining whether evolving genetic material is part of the phylogenetic tree ... is highly regulated. Most DNA viruses, for example ...

Researchers have explored the evolution of the genetic change that causes chronic myeloid leukaemia and show its ability to drive the disease.

In order to isolate DNA from this specimen, the researchers had to work ... This helped the team construct a detailed phylogenetic tree mapping the pathogen’s evolutionary descent. Phylogenetic ...