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 ...

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego is making it easier for researchers from a broad range of ...

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 ...

Scientists identified two key distinctions related to the DNA replication ... the sequences of multiple genomes of diverse life-forms to construct and compare thousands of phylogenetic trees ...

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

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

In a new study, researchers from the Sanger Institute used DNA sequencing to analyse ... This is akin to creating family trees of cells -- known as phylogenetic trees -- which allowed the team ...