Of course, as phylogenetic trees branch, different lineages accumulate different traits. Figure 3 illustrates this idea using a clade that contains four lizard species. You can see that the ...

This may be the reason why biologists have only in the last few decades come to develop a rigorous understanding of phylogenetic ... learning about how traits evolve along trees, how trees are ...

Plants play essential ... performed the test for all the traits, and Knighton says they found high levels of conservation across the phylogenetic tree, which means closely related species tend ...

Students use both morphology and analysis of DNA sequences to identify relationships between species and to organize species and traits into phylogenetic trees. Along the way, students will watch ...

The history of a plant species is captured in its shape and form. Machine learning allows us to discover these novel phylogenetic traits." The researchers plan to enhance their model's accuracy ...

Each tree species ... history (i.e., phylogenetic relatedness among species and lineages) in driving global wood density variation. The work is published in the journal Plant Diversity.

"Plants control our environment to an incredible degree." More information: James Knighton et al, A global dataset of tree hydraulic and structural traits imputed from phylogenetic relationships ...