The extraordinary level of conservation of the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) mitochondrial genome has redefined our interpretation of evolution of the angiosperms (flowering plants), finds research in bio ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 14, 2013 4.1 / 5 (7) 1 |

(Phys.org) —A protein-folding simulation shows that the debated theory of long-term evolution is not only possible, but that the outcomes are predictable. The Stanford experiment provides a framework for ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 18, 2013 4.6 / 5 (20) 25 |

Alex Pyron's expertise is in family trees. Who is related to whom, who begat whom, how did they get where they are now. But not for humans: reptiles.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 12, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

An international team of researchers from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the CNRS in Lyon have investigated the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA of 500 individuals from southern ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 17, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

The remarkable diversity of California's plant life is largely the result of low extinction rates over the past 45 million years, according to a new study published in the journal Evolution. Although many new species have e ...

Biology - Evolution

Jan 09, 2013 not rated yet 0

An international team of researchers, including Carnegie Museum of Natural History scientist John Wible, has resolved the evolutionary relationships of Necrolestes patagonensis, whose name translates into " ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 19, 2012 4.8 / 5 (5) 3 |

Dramatic shifts in the planet's climate and geography over millions of years changed the course of evolutionary history for conifer trees, according to a Yale paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 04, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Researchers announced today that the results of a decade-long study has shown that the northern Mozambique Channel has the highest diversity of corals in the central, northern and western Indian ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 20, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Evolutionary relationships among a group of arthropods from Gondwana, a supercontinent that existed between 510 and 180 million years ago, were investigated by EU scientists using molecular sequencing technology. ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 17, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Double flowers—though beautiful—are mutants. The genetic interruption that causes that mutation previously helped scientists pinpoint the genes for normal development of flower sexual organs in Arabidopsis ...

Biology - Evolution

Sep 04, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

Geckos have independently evolved their trademark sticky feet as many as 11 times, and lost them nine times, according to research published June 27 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 27, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 3 |

Cooperating with fungi didn't just help the earliest plants spread across a barren, rocky landscape; it also played a decisive role in the rise of more complex plants with roots and leaves that make up most ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 24, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant lineages with multiple copies of their genetic information face higher extinction rates than their relatives, researchers report in Science magazine.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 13, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 8 |

A recent study conducted for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has determined that 20 percent of hagfish species are at an elevated risk of extinction*. Scientists warn that this figure could be much ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 29, 2011 4.3 / 5 (6) 2

Researchers at The University of Western Ontario led an international and multi-disciplinary study that sheds new light on the way that bats echolocate. With echolocation, animals emit sounds and then listen ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 24, 2010 5 / 5 (4) 1 |