In a new Nature Physics study, researchers have provided evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological ...

Networks of Genome Evolution Replace the Tree of Life Evolutionary ... lack many of the genes that are universal among the three domains of cellular life — in particular, genes for translation ...

On the universal tree of life, all eukaryotic life falls on exactly one branch. This suggests that eukaryotic cells originated only once, which is consistent with their origin being unlikely.

We propose that four criteria should be considered when determining whether evolving genetic material is part of the phylogenetic tree ... of the phylogeny of life and have played important ...