Ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) is a still-burgeoning method that has revealed many key mechanisms of molecular evolution. One criticism of the approach is an inability to validate its ...

Fungi, Viridiplantae and Animalia are all large clades descended from unicellular, flagellated, aquatic forms that radiated extensively on land. For both plants and animals, biologists have developed ...

The nuclear ITS region and four noncoding cpDNA regions were directly sequenced to reconstruct the phylogeny of subsect. Meleuphorbia (Euphorbia L.), which is endemic to South Africa. Sequence ...