Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology is positioning itself as one of the most effective non-destructive methods to collect accurate information on ground crop fields, analysis three-dimensional models that can be generated with it allows for quickly measuring several key parameters (such yield estimations, aboveground biomass, vegetation indexes estimation, perform plant phenotyping, ...

The discovery of six specimens of the enigmatic order Siphoniulida, including for the first time males, prompted a modern re-analysis of current phylogenetic schemes for the class Diplopoda derived from traditional morphological and developmental characters. The data matrix was constructed and analysed using paup. The resulting phylogenetic hypotheses corroborated the longest standing, traditio...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a major role in microbial genome diversification, and is claimed to be rampant among various groups of genes in bacteria. Further, HGT is a major confounding factor for any attempt to reconstruct bacterial phylogenies. As a result, detecting and reconstructing HGT events in groups of organisms has become a major endeavor in biology. The problem of detecting ...