Forest geneticist receives $810,000 grant to study disease resistance in sugar pines
Amanda De La Torre is studying the genome of sugar pines to find out what makes some trees resistant to ...
Tag: Evolution
Secretion of sugar polymers modulates multicellularity in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
Fundamental research in bacterial physiologyCredit: Salim Timo Islam Research by INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) Professor Salim Timo ...
Jealous feelings can act as a tool to strengthen friendships
Credit: Courtesy of Keelah Williams, Hamilton College Feeling green might not be a bad thing when it comes to friendships, ...
‘Insect apocalypse’ may not be happening in US
Long-term ecological site study shows no net insect changesCredit: UGA Scientists have been warning about an "insect apocalypse" in recent ...
Study shows inbreeding reduces cooperation in banded mongooses
Inbreeding can reduce cooperation in banded mongooses according to a recent study by researchersCredit: Dr Hazel Nichols Inbreeding can reduce ...
Adaptive mutations repeat themselves in tiny crustaceans of Lake Baikal
Credit: Valentina Burskaia/Skoltech A group of scientists from Skoltech and the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS (IITP RAS) ...
Evolutionary assimilation of foreign DNA in a new host
Credit: Palsson Lab All life is subject to evolution in the form of mutations that change the DNA sequence of ...
New study confirms the power of Deinosuchus and its ‘teeth the size of bananas’
Credit: Adam Cossette A new study, revisiting fossil specimens from the enormous crocodylian, Deinosuchus, has confirmed that the beast had ...
Previously undescribed lineage of Archaea illuminates microbial evolution
New group with possible symbiotic life strategyCredit: Anja Spang In a publication in Nature Communications last Friday, NIOZ scientists Nina ...
Integration of gene regulatory networks in understanding animal behavior
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer For years, scientists have attributed animal behavior to the coordinated activities of neuronal cells and its ...
Oldest enzyme in cellular respiration isolated
How microbes in the primordial atmosphere obtained energy without oxygenCredit: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany In the first ...
The Last unknown
International team reveals richest island flora in worldCredit: Joshua Brown/UVM Imagine if there were, say, 600 species of giraffes: some ...
Long neck helped reptile hunt underwater
Credit: Emma Finley-Jacob Its neck was three times as long as its torso, but had only 13 extremely elongated vertebrae: ...
New study sheds light on evolution of hell ants from 100 million years ago
Credit: NIGPAS Ants are the most successful social insects and play an important role in modern terrestrial ecosystems. The origin ...
A ‘Devonian’ aquarium: Modern mutant fishes replicate creatures of ancient oceans
Credit: Tetsuto Miyashita Ottawa, August 5, 2020 - Zebrafish are a common aquarium species, of value to hobbyists and scientists ...
Study clarifies kinship of important plant group
Analysis with participation of the University of Bonn is the most detailed work on the group of asterids worldwide so ...
Climate change may melt the “freezers” of pygmy owls and reduce their overwinter survival
Credit: Photo: Erkki Korpimäki Ecologists at the University of Turku, Finland, have discovered that the food hoards pygmy owls collect ...
The curious genome of the tuatara, an ancient reptile in peril
Researchers have sequenced the genome of the tuatara, revealing its unique evolutionary historyCredit: Bernard Spragg (Flickr, CC0) 5 August 2020, ...
Are vultures spreaders of microbes that put human health at risk?
Credit: Jorge de la Cruz A new analysis published in IBIS examines whether bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms that are ...
Study: Oriole hybridization is a dead end
Scientists say Baltimore and Bullock's Orioles are not mergingCredit: Bryan Calk, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ithaca, NY--A half-century ...
