As such, DNA sequencing has emerged as a fundamental ... The distances are often placed on phylogenetic trees, which show the deduced relationships among the organisms (Figure 3).

Students use both morphology and analysis of DNA sequences to identify relationships between species and to organize species and traits into phylogenetic trees. Along the way, students will watch ...

These are Jukes-Cantor distances based on number of mtDNA sequence differences. [See Glossary and pp. 91-93 of Hall, B.G. 2001. Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy. Sinauer, for more on evolutionary models ...

April 25 is International DNA Day, and it marks the completion of a decade-long project to sequence the DNA of Hong Kong's ...

And, while other branches of the human evolutionary tree are vigorously ... complete anatomies, DNA sequences, behaviors - it might be possible to rely entirely on phylogenetic relationships ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

Insights into the function of DNA Topoisomerase VI (Topo VI) may provide a springboard for drug discovery and crop protection ...