Using the technique known as phylogenetics to build the family tree of a disease outbreak could revolutionize the fight against infectious disease. A study examining the origins of AIDS recently made ...

Read me first! -- Tutorial : estimate a tree! -- Acquiring -- Aligning the sequences -- Major methods for estimating phylogenetic trees -- Neighbor-joining trees -- Drawing phylogenetic trees -- ...

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Biologists will be able to reconstruct the process of evolution, determine relationships between species and build phylogenetic trees with greater accuracy thanks to a new method for identifying ...

The new model focuses on phylogenetic diversity, which is very different from counting species, today's standard measure of biodiversity. The same number of species (three blue circles) can have a ...

More genetic data is available than ever before to help build evolutionary trees, but scientists are finding that different genes even in the same organism can tell conflicting stories. Read Later ...

Phylogeny is the representation of the evolutionary history and relationships between groups of organisms. The results are represented in a phylogenetic tree that provides a visual output of ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

Researchers from Yale, Cornell and Florida State University released an updated and highly comprehensive evolutionary tree of birds last Wednesday in the journal Nature. The focus of the research was ...