Among the fossils of hitherto unknown mammals that Darwin collected in South America between 1832 and 1833 during the Beagle expedition...

Xenarthra (armadillos, sloths, and anteaters) constitutes one of the four major clades of placental mammals. Despite their phylogenetic...

Mammals have diversified into many dietary niches. Specialized myrmecophagous (ant- and termite-eating) placental mammals represent a...

Despite the rapid increase of size in phylogenomic datasets, the rooting of the placental mammal tree is still a controversial issue. One...

The morphological peculiarities of turtles have, for a long time, impeded their accurate placement in the phylogeny of amniotes. In this...

Fairy armadillos or pichiciegos (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae) are among the most elusive mammals. Due to their subterranean and nocturnal...

We developed a new approach based on an algorithm implemented in a freely available program called MACSE that allows the direct alignment...

Développé par l'Ecole de l'ADN et ses partenaires, Trivial Evolution est un jeu éducatif qui combine les caractéristiques des jeux de...

Genomes of animals as different as sponges and humans show conservation of global architecture. Here we show that multiple genomic...

Phylogenomic and comparative genomic studies have suggested that tunicates are characterized by an elevated rate of molecular evolution...