The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
The genomes of two species of water bears reveal clues about how they persist in extreme conditions, yet don’t resolve the animals’ debated evolutionary story.
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An analysis of 74 dinosaur species leads a group of researchers to reorganize the extinct animals’ evolutionary history.
Foamy-like endogenous retroviruses may have emerged more than 450 million years ago, according to an analysis.
Researchers are abandoning the concept of a list of genes sequenced from a single individual, instead aiming for a way to describe all the genetic variation within a species.
Survey of 24 animal species suggests that each hosts a custom-tailored microbiome.
A reanalysis of phylogenetic data places sponges, rather than comb jellies, back at the base of the animal tree.
Researchers map 2.3 million species in a single phylogeny.
Protein extracted from ancient fossils identified by Darwin as some of the “strangest animals ever discovered” places the creatures amongst horses, tapirs, and rhinos on the tree of life.
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