Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

As a result, the tree structure is extremely helpful in tracking biological diversity at all levels. Most phylogenetic trees are rooted, meaning that one branch (which is usually unlabeled ...

Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as extremely powerful tools for organizing this knowledge of biological diversity. In biology, the concept of relatedness is defined in terms of recency to a ...

The researchers reported a statistically significant increase in microbial richness (Chao1 index) and phylogenetic diversity ...

Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study explores the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have changed over millions of years. Analyzing nearly ...

Analyzing nearly 270,000 seed plant species worldwide, the research highlights the roles of environmental conditions and ...

Using advanced methods that integrate plant distributions with phylogenetic information—meaning data about ... were found to ...