This important study provides compelling evidence for the evolutionary diversification and conserved NFκB-inducing function of RHIM-containing RIP kinase proteins across animal lineages, combining ...

Functionally indispensable genes are likely to be retained and otherwise to be lost during evolution. This evolutionary fate of a gene can also be affected by factors independent of gene ...

Rats are thin-tailed, medium-size rodents that originated in Asia and Australia but are now found all over the world. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, but other rodent genera are also ...

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Prague, Czechia Major evolutionary transitions were always accompanied by genetic remodelling of phenotypic traits. For example, ...

1 Receptor Biology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States 2 Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Georgetown ...

Muskrats are large rodents, and therefore are related to rats, mice, voles, gerbils, hamsters and lemmings. These aquatic animals look a lot like their relatives. They are quite round, with short ...

Modern taxonomy recognizes 5 suborders (Anomaluromorpha, Castorimorpha, Hystricomorpha, Myomorpha and Sciuromorpha) and 33 families. Sciuromorpha (including sciurids, mountain beaver and dormice ...

Birch mouse ancestor discovered in Inner Mongolia is new species of rare 'living fossil' Date: May 25, 2011 Source: Southern Methodist University Summary: Fossils from Inner Mongolia are a new ...