Chordata, the phylum to which bats belong, encompasses a diverse range of animals with a notochord – a flexible rod-like structure providing support and serves as a precursor to the spine. Bats, as ...

The Cambrian explosion may have happened much earlier. The study quantitatively indicates that organisms with slender body profiles thrived around 545 million years ago.

Xiaowen Sun and colleagues report the whole-genome sequencing of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. They also resequenced 33 representative accessions from a worldwide collection and provide ...

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