Researchers say strategy will help understand the history of life, monitor the spread of pathogens or create new treatments for disease.

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...

Tree crops—for example, apple, cherry, olives, nuts, coffee, and cacao—cover more than 183 million hectares worldwide, yet ...

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...