Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

Knowing phylogenetic relationships among species is fundamental for many studies in
biology. An accurate phylogenetic tree underpins our understanding of the major transitions …

The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in southern Africa has been characterized by three distinct
waves. The first was associated with a mix of SARS-CoV-2 lineages, while the second and …

Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare.
However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse …

The northern state of Amazonas is among the regions in Brazil most heavily affected by the
COVID-19 epidemic and has experienced two exponentially growing waves, in early and …

Technologically critical rare-earth elements are notoriously difficult to separate, owing to
their subtle differences in ionic radius and coordination number,–. The natural lanthanide …

Language models have recently emerged as a powerful machine-learning approach for
distilling information from massive protein sequence databases. From readily available …

We identified an emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
variant by viral whole-genome sequencing of 2,172 nasal/nasopharyngeal swab samples …

Following its emergence in late 2019, the spread of SARS-CoV-2, has been tracked by
phylogenetic analysis of viral genome sequences in unprecedented detail,–. Although the …

Global dispersal and increasing frequency of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variant D614G
are suggestive of a selective advantage but may also be due to a random founder effect. We …