Hidden Fungal Lineages Emerge from the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, Rewriting Polyporales Evolution
A new genus and six new species of wood-decaying fungi have been discovered on the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, with molecular clock ...
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Ancient Mushroom Family Gets a Genomic Makeover, Revealing New Psilocybin Producers
A comprehensive phylogenomic study establishes Galeropsidaceae as a distinct mushroom family, describes eight new species from China, and pinpoints which ...
Horned Frogs Traced Back to a Miocene Birthplace in Brazil’s Cerrado
A new phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis traces the horned frog family Ceratophryidae to a Cerrado origin roughly 19 million years ...
Spider-Killer Fungi From China Reveal Eight New Species and a Cretaceous Origin
A five-year survey across Chinese forests uncovered eight new spider-pathogenic fungal species and, using a 648-strain molecular clock, traced the ...
Crust Fungi Clock: Ancient White-Rot Genus Phanerochaete Traced Back 100 Million Years
A five-gene phylogenetic study reveals that the white-rot crust fungus genus Phanerochaete originated in Asia around 100 million years ago ...
Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes Trace Forest Pathogen Evolution in China’s Qinling Mountains
Complete mitochondrial genomes of eleven Phytophthora species from Qinling Mountain forests reveal purifying selection, three distinct gene arrangement types, and ...
How Anesthesia Disrupts the Body Clock and Why Melatonin May Help Restore It
A new review maps how anesthetics and surgical stress disrupt circadian and melatonin signaling, and why better-designed trials are needed ...
Folding-Door Spiders Reveal Ancient Pacific Northwest Split Written in Their Genes
By testing competing biogeographic hypotheses as molecular clock calibrations, researchers have dated an ancient spider divergence in the Pacific Northwest ...
Fossil Fish Ear Bones Reveal 8 Million Years of Gradual Modernization in the Western Pacific
A study of 4,893 fossil fish otoliths from northern Taiwan documents an eight-million-year sequence of gradual species replacement that transformed ...
D-rex: Giant 65-Million-Year-Old Fungus From Chinese Forests Rewrites Fungal Family Tree
Scientists have discovered Dianjunus rex, a giant fungus in Yunnan, China, whose half-meter fruiting bodies are the largest known among ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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