New species of frog sheds light on major biodiversity hotspot in southern India
Discovery will help researchers better understand a region of the world known for its evolutionary significanceCredit: S.P.Vijayakumar WASHINGTON (Mar. 12, ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Meet India’s starry dwarf frog, lone member of newly discovered ancient lineage
Credit: Photo by K.P. Dinesh GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The starry dwarf frog is an expert hider. Plunging into leaf litter ...
Unprecedented number of warm-water species moved northward during marine heatwave
Tropical species near San Francisco? New range limit records indicate future face of California coastCredit: Jackie Sones/UC Davis During the ...
Unveiling the role of selenocysteine, the mysterious 21st amino acid
Selenocysteine is an essential amino acid for certain species, such as humans and the other vertebrates, although it has disappeared ...
FAIR biodiversity data in Pensoft journals thanks to a routine data auditing workflow
Credit: Pensoft To avoid publication of openly accessible, yet unusable datasets, fated to result in irreproducible and inoperable biological diversity ...
The fiddlers influencing mangrove ecosystems
Credit: © 2019 Marco Fusi The types of bacteria present in and around mangrove fiddler crab burrows in three different ...
Winning the arms race: Analysis reveals key gene for bacterial infection
Researchers at Osaka University use molecular-level analyses of evolution to identify a key gene in bacterial infection, potentially providing a ...
New species of stiletto snake capable of sideways strikes discovered in West Africa
Credit: Mark-Oliver Roedel Following a series of recent surveys in north-western Liberia and south-eastern Guinea, an international team of researchers ...
Study confirms horseshoe crabs are really relatives of spiders, scorpions
Credit: Courtesy of Jesús Ballesteros MADISON, Wis. -- Blue-blooded and armored with 10 spindly legs, horseshoe crabs have perhaps always ...
Coral reef parks protecting only 40 percent of fish biomass potential
Credit: Tim McClanahan/WCS Marine scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups examining the ecological status of coral reefs ...
‘Specialized’ microbes within plant species promote diversity
Tree seedlings grow less effectively in soil located below their 'mother' treeCredit: Sean Mattson It's widely accepted within agriculture that ...
Crucial milestone for critically endangered bird
A team led by a conservation biologist from the University of Kent has successfully relocated threatened Seychelles paradise flycatchers (Terpsiphone ...
Getting more mileage from microsatellites
An optimized next-generation sequencing approach provides insight to the evolutionary history of carob They say you only find what you're ...
Translocation of bighorn sheep in Arizona has positive genetic outcomes
Credit: George Andrejko/Arizona Game and Fish Department Translocation is an important management tool that has been used for more than ...
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