Common ancestor eels lost the aquaporin gene encoding proteins with broad solute permeability. Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo have now found that recent gene duplication events in the ...

Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution have long been a central question in plant evolutionary biology.

Effective hydrophobic barriers were essential for plants to survive on land, yet how these barriers became specialized across different tissues has remained unclear. This study reveals that two ...

What the research is about Eels migrate between rivers and oceans, surviving by carefully regulating water balance　and ...

When cells divide and chromosomes are replicated for the daughter cells in a select type of cell called the germline, which is happening constantly in living things, sometimes things don’t go ...

Timeline showing the approximate dates of the two whole genome duplication (WGD) events that led to the evolution of more specialised brains in vertebrate species. Credit: Shuai Zhang, Xiamen ...