An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

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, ...

The results were published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Using advanced methods that integrate plant distributions with phylogenetic information -- meaning data about the evolutionary ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.

Microbial eukaryotes are key components of the marine food web ... that were also analyzed by constructing maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees. The correlations found between the Syndiniales (mainly ...

Here, we use a comprehensive phylogenetic profiling setup ... to trace 301 curated eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis factors across 982 taxa spanning the tree of life and including 727 archaea. We show ...

The researchers realized that Ancoracysta represents its own lineage when phylogenetic models could ... a group of unicellular, eukaryotic organisms that sit at the root of the eukaryotic tree of life ...

Since the late 1980s, all life forms have been split into three groups on the phylogenetic tree of life: bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Eukaryotes and archaea have long been considered “sister ...