Tag: Biodiversity

UMD study suggests caution is needed for research that presumes closely related species use the same genes for similar functionsCredit: ...

Credit: Buckfastleigh Flood Action Group The planting of woodlands in upland areas could play a significant role in preventing the ...

New research field promises to transform food production and treatment of diseases; a global panel of experts unified concepts to ...

Credit: IPK Domestication and subsequent intensive breeding of tomato had a major impact on fruit ripening and the myriad metabolic ...

Credit: Winai Suthanthangjai While the majority of snakes would normally swallow their prey whole, the Small-banded Kukri Snake seems to ...

Credit: EPFL / Alain Herzog Mitochondria are present in all eukaryotic cells: in our cells, in mammalian cells, in the ...

Credit: Katja Peijnenburg, Erica Goetze, Deborah Wall-Palmer, Lisette Mekkes. Two groups of tiny, delicate marine organisms, sea butterflies and sea ...

Cichlid fishes, able to respond rapidly to environmental change, offer good modelCredit: UMass Amherst/Albertson lab A team of biologists led ...

Credit: University of Saskatchewan Conversion of large swaths of land to uniform tree plantations and single-crop species may lead to ...

Credit: Natsumi Hookabe As Natsumi Hookabe snorkeled around Panama's Bocas del Toro archipelago, during the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Training ...

Stirling and Gabonese experts lead research into impact of climate change on rainforest elephantsCredit: University of Stirling Experts from the ...

Researchers from Yale-NUS College and Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that tarantulas have the ability to see in colour, contrary ...

Credit: Courtesy of Philip Lavretsky. EL PASO, Texas - A team of researchers from multiple institutions led by Philip Lavretsky, ...

Credit: Andrew Bladon Researchers have discovered significant variations in the ability of different UK butterfly species to maintain a suitable ...