In hid book Wonderful Life, Stephen Gould presents the bewildering array of Cambrian fauna, and tries to make a sense of it. Along the way, he hits on a favorite theme: the power illustrations have to ...

The comparative analysis of primate genomes within a phylogenetic context is crucial for understanding the evolution of the human genetic architecture and the inter-species genomic differences ...

Mitonuclear discordance refers to the mismatch between evolutionary histories inferred from mitochondrial DNA and those reconstructed from nuclear genomes. This phenomenon arises when mitochondrial ...

Seven complete mitochondrial genomes link visually diverse Western Atlantic electric rays into one low-divergence lineage ...

系统发育冲突是指基于不同基因或基因组数据构建的系统发育树呈现不一致的亲缘关系，这一现象在经历近期快速分化或适应性辐射的动植物类群中尤为常见。杂交和不完全谱系分选是造成系统发育冲突的两类重要演化过程，使物种的演化历史难以通过单一的二叉分支系统发育树得到 ...