Researchers have assembled and compared complete chloroplast genomes of ten Blumea species, revealing highly conserved ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of Darwin. One focus of current debates is whether adaptive evolution relies ...

A theoretical model shows that modular, collaborative search of adaptive landscapes can outperform full searches but only ...

A new study has found that adaptive molecular convergence—the process by which distantly related or unrelated species evolve the same genomic changes—is not as rare as previously thought.

Adaptation is considered essential for species facing environmental change, but our understanding of the evolution of complex ecotypes remains limited. We show that a substantial genomic cluster of co ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team showed that a group of highly divergent mammals known as Afrotheria and distantly ...

A study tied modest frailty gains in a prehab program to lower waitlist death risk in liver transplant candidates. Here is what caregivers can ask the care team. Volunteers found the invented curses ...

In Lake Malawi, Africa, fish known as cichlids have been evolving astonishingly fast—the lake hosts at least 800 species of them. Researchers who sequenced the genomes of these fish found that ...