Stephanie Adams recently joined Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service as a tree and landscape plant health specialist.

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

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 ...

Here, the unit proposed a framework for revising the tree of life, which included both morphological surveys and data analyses powered by the supercomputer at OIST. Phylogenetic revisions of ...

Phylogenetic tree generated from 86 nuclear genes sequences of 29 citrus samples (species/cultivars) with Poncirus trifoliata as the outgroup. A research team conducted a comprehensive analysis of ...

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 ...

Additionally, phylogenetic analysis showed that this virus is identical to IsrRAPXV originally described by us as the causative agent of skin lesions in fruit bats.” The scholars—who come from ...

But new trees in open areas often require staking early in their lives. Tree staking anchors young trees and supports them while they begin to grow. Staking a tree “prevents leaning while the ...

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 ...