Mitonuclear discordance refers to the mismatch between evolutionary histories inferred from mitochondrial DNA and those reconstructed from nuclear genomes. This phenomenon arises when mitochondrial ...

Anurans, salamanders and caecilians represent the three major orders of Amphibia, collectively encompassing over 8,000 described species worldwide. Phylogenetic analysis employs molecular, ...

Co-led by Guojie Zhang from Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University, Dong-Dong Wu at Kunming Institute of Zoology, Xiao-Guang Qi at Northwest University, Li Yu at Yunnan ...

Accurate phylogenetic trees are fundamental to evolutionary and comparative biology, but the almost simultaneous emergence of major animal phyla and diverse body plans during the Cambrian Explosion ...

A new, high-quality bonobo genome assembly has been constructed. It is allowing scientists to more accurately compare the bonobo genome to that of other great apes - the gorilla, orangutan, chimpanzee ...