Intracellular endosymbionts that originally descended from free-living prokaryotes have been important in the evolution of eukaryotes by giving rise to two cytoplasmic organelles. Mitochondria arose ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

This evolutionary tree shows the split between primate and rodent lineages about 90 million years ago, before the emergence of Alu elements in primates and B/ID elements in rodents. These short ...

Members of the Archaeplastida have primary plastids stemming directly from cyanobacteria. The primary plastids of red and green algae have spread from the Archaeplastida to other branches of the tree, ...

When you hear the term “evolutionary tree,” you may think of Charles Darwin and the study of the relationships between different species over the span of millions of years. While the concept of an ...