New taxonomy of termites highlights their role as ecosystem engineers and provides a clearer picture of their evolutionary ...

Just as many ecosystems rely on the infrastructure provided by termites, so too does the study of termites require a solid foundation. And now, a new system for termite classification has been created ...

Termites have a bad reputation. Most think of them as pests, a status that isn't helped by their recent reclassification into ...

It’s undeniable at this point that Asgard archaea contributed a lot to the complexity that we see in eukaryotes today.” ...

that helps scientists figure out organisms’ metabolic pathways (how they sustain life). Next, we used these families to infer phylogenetic trees (or phylogenies, somewhat like a family tree) to ...

Identified as species of Commiphora, part of the frankincense and myrrh family, plant lacks fragrance but medical compound ...

Researchers unveiled the curatedFoodMetagenomicData (cFMD) resource, revealing extensive microbial diversity in food and its ...

In his role as Vice Chair of the IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force, Rikki has led the development of indicators to track the status of EDGE species and the Tree of Life at the national and ...

Science Alert. Largest Ever Bird Genome Study Unveils New 'Tree of Life', But One Species Is a Mystery. National Library of Medicine. Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic hoatzin (Opisthocomus ...

Julius Rosenwald understood that charity is not just about giving, but about fixing the inequalities that make giving ...