EGAPx is the publicly accessible version of the updated NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline. ⚠️ Fungi, protists and nematodes are out-of-scope for EGAPx. We recommend using a different ...

The arrival of flowering plants reshaped the living world. They filled it with color, scent, and new ways to thrive. But when did it all begin? For centuries, scientists have chased that answer. They ...

When you think of bees, what comes to mind? It might be the sweet taste of honey or an ever present buzzing next to your ear. It may even be the 2007 cinematic masterpiece, “Bee Movie.” What you might ...

1 Department of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences and Center for Genomics and Computational Biology, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China 2 State Key Laboratory of ...

Hello, and welcome to January’s Wild Wild Life, the monthly newsletter that celebrates the biodiversity of our planet’s animals plants and other organisms. To receive this free, monthly newsletter in ...

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Palms and Florida go together like cookies and milk, or peanut butter and jelly. The state tree is the native cabbage palm. It is natural that residents love their palms and want to care for them ...

"Abominable mystery" -- the early origin and evolution of angiosperms (flowering plants) was such described by Charles Robert Darwin. So far, we still have not completely solved the problem, and do ...

It has been increasingly important for breeding programs to be aimed at crops that are capable of coping with a changing climate, especially with regards to higher frequency and intensity of drought ...

This is an artist’s rendering of A. burmitina feeding on eudicot flowers. Credit: Illustration by Ding-hau Yang A new study co-led by researchers in the U.S. and China has pushed back the first-known ...