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Evolution Sep 13, 2023

One of the oldest land plant lineages, clubmosses (Selaginella), re-classified

Clubmosses (Selaginella sensu lato) emerged over 383 million years ago in the Devonian Period, predating dinosaurs. These ancient vascular plants hold significant value in unraveling land plant evolution. Presently, Selaginella ...

Cell & Microbiology Sep 6, 2023

The origin and functional diversification of the Pert-Arnt-Sim (PAS) domain—an intracellular sensor

Signal transduction and perception regulates biological activities to adapt to changing environments. The Pert-Arnt-Sim domains are commonly available sensors found across diverse receptors in bacteria, eukaryotes, and archaea. ...

Evolution Sep 1, 2023

New amphibian family tree indicates they evolved tens of millions of years later than previously thought

Researchers, including Jeff Streicher, Senior Curator in Charge, Amphibians and Reptiles at the Natural History Museum, London, have unveiled the most extensive evolutionary tree of frogs (anuran amphibians) to date. This ...

Evolution Aug 31, 2023

Mutation rates in whales found to be much higher than previously reported

An international team of marine scientists, led by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and the Center for Coastal Studies in the U.S., has studied the DNA of family groups from four different whale species to estimate ...

Ecology Aug 30, 2023

Study provides evidence for hidden diversity within Hydnoraceae

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have conducted a phylogenetic analysis of Hydnora plants in the family Hydnoraceae through plastid genome sequencing, assembly and annotation ...

Cell & Microbiology Aug 30, 2023

Researchers track yeast population dynamics in fuel bioethanol production

Researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil, in collaboration with colleagues at Harvard University in the United States, conducted an innovative study of the DNA and population dynamics of Saccharomyces ...

Plants & Animals Aug 29, 2023

New Aristolochiaceae liana species found in Yunnan, China

Traditionally, the genus Aristolochia L. sensu lato is the largest genus in the family Aristolochiaceae. According to recent morphological and phylogenetic studies, Aristolochia subgen. Siphisia has been reintroduced as a ...

Evolution Aug 22, 2023

Some hummingbirds resort to sneaky methods to obtain nectar

A 50-year project recently came to fruition for UConn researchers. In their paper recently published in The American Naturalist, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emeritus Professor Robert Colwell and his colleagues—all ...

Archaeology Jul 27, 2023

New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages

An international team of linguists and geneticists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has achieved a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of Indo-European, ...

Cell & Microbiology Jul 24, 2023

SeqCode provides a path to name uncultivated prokaryotes

Most prokaryotes have never been isolated in pure culture and cannot be named under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP). However, many studies have described uncultured bacteria and archaea though ...

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