Researchers have assembled and compared complete chloroplast genomes of ten Blumea species, revealing highly conserved ...

A new analysis of roughly 25,000 amino acid substitutions from evolved E. coli shows that adaptive laboratory evolution ...

A new study has found that adaptive molecular convergence—the process by which distantly related or unrelated species evolve the same genomic changes—is not as rare as previously thought.

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of Darwin. One focus of current debates is whether adaptive evolution relies ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team showed that a group of highly divergent mammals known as Afrotheria and distantly ...

Adaptation is considered essential for species facing environmental change, but our understanding of the evolution of complex ecotypes remains limited. We show that a substantial genomic cluster of co ...

In Lake Malawi, Africa, fish known as cichlids have been evolving astonishingly fast—the lake hosts at least 800 species of them. Researchers who sequenced the genomes of these fish found that ...