Xenoturbella bocki is a small marine worm predominantly found on the seafloor of fjords along the west coast of Sweden. This simple organism’s unusual evolutionary history has long intrigued ...

Introduction: “Baizhi” is a famous herbal medicine in China, and it includes four landraces named as ‘Hangbaizhi’, ‘Chuanbaizhi’, ‘Qibaizhi’, and ‘Yubaizhi’. Long-term artificial selection had caused ...

For advanced purification, all proteins were passed through a Superdex S-75 column (GE Healthcare) with buffer A. The molecular mass of all four proteins was estimated in buffer A using a Superdex ...

Phylogenetic analysis of morphological data proceeds from a fixed set of primary homology statements, the character-by-taxon matrix. However, there are cases where multiple conflicting homology ...