Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

Creating a family tree that dates back more than 400 million years and details the evolution of the most diverse group of animals on the planet is no easy feat, but one ambitious group of scientists ...

Genomic sequencing can be used to work out the evolutionary relationships of different species, or groups of organisms. This is known as phylogenetics. Species with more similarity in their genomes ...

As of June 16, 2022, there were 10,594,265 sequences displayed in the UShER COVID-19 phylogenetic tree. 10 million sequences of COVID-19’s genomic code have now been organized into a phylogenetic tree ...

A new genetic family tree of the UK's birds may help predict which will see their populations decline in future. The family tree - or phylogenetic map - shows how closely species are related. The ...