In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir ...

Apply the tree of life to research on taxonomy, evolutionary biology, trait discovery and ecosystem stewardship. Deliver a dynamic, open tree of life digital platform, providing the most up-to-date ...

An international team of scientists mapped the Greenland shark’s genome in an ongoing effort to extend human life. In a ...

As Russian biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky noted in the title of his 1973 essay, “Nothing in biology ... life continues to evolve.” Florian Block, lead developer of NOVA's web version of Deep ...

Although most biologists would argue that viruses are not alive, some argue that viruses should be included in the tree of life. All organisms, they contend, should be divided into ribosome ...

Our expertise touches all the areas of the Tree of Life, including single-celled organisms ... the diversity of past (palaeobiology and phylogenetics) and present life (population and behavioural ...

The Comparative Fungal Biology team combines fundamental taxonomic expertise with modern molecular approaches and ecological perspectives. Our research ranges from baseline diversity studies in ...

Mark Blaxter, who leads the Tree of Life project, says: "When the human genome was sequenced, it changed the way we do human biology forever. And it's really transformed how we see ourselves and ...

We propose that four criteria should be considered when determining whether evolving genetic material is part of the phylogenetic tree ... of the phylogeny of life and have played important ...