A team of researchers has discovered new insights into the evolution of color patterns in frogs and toads -- collectively known as anurans. Animal color patterns can help them camouflage with their ...

This volume is based on the National Academy of Sciences' Colloquium on the Tempo and Mode of Evolution. The articles appearing in these pages were contributed by speakers at the colloquium and have ...

Tempo, mode, the progenote, and the universal root / W. Ford Doolittle and James R. Brown -- Phylogeny from function : the origin of tRNA is in replication, not translation / Nancy Maizels and Alan M.

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is particularly prevalent in plants, where it facilitates the evolution of new ...

The Yangtze River, often referred to as the mother river of China, is vital to both ecological functions and the economic and social development of the region. In a new study published in Water & ...