The mystery of life’s beginnings has long captivated scientists. Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ...

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...

New analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil embedded in a rocky cove in Australia suggests echidnas may have evolved from ...

Starting from LUCA, i.e., the hypothesized last universal common ancestor from which the three ... mechanism of gene growth across the entire tree of life, where the variance directly depends ...

Comparisons are usually made pairwise with reference to a third genome 'outgroup' or by examination of pairs of paired sequences and summarized in phylogenetic trees. A phylogenetically controlled ...

Producers who were raising pigs in the 1980s can clearly remember the first time they encountered the “Mystery Swine Disease” ...