By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

The team also designed the dataset to update automatically as new phylogenetic information about birds becomes available. Crucially, similar techniques used to construct this evolutionary tree can ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

Researchers have combined decades of scientific data, tracing how all birds are related. This provides an evolutionary map ...

ROADIES—which stands for "Reference-free, Orthology-free, Annotation-free, Discordance-aware Estimation of Species Trees"—stands apart from existing phylogenetic tools because it uses a ...

the billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an archaea and a bacteria have resulted in a lack of evolutionary intermediates in the phylogenetic tree until the emergence of the ...