Tag: Population Biology

Scientists for the first time compared complete genome data of different ethnic groups in Russia. Using a special algorithm, they ...

Plague is an endemic disease in Madagascar. Each year there is a seasonal upsurge between September and April, especially in ...

Bobcats, coyotes, foxes seek green spaces in the suburbsCredit: eMammal Project As growth makes neighborhoods more crowded for humans, it's ...

Study reinforces importance of old growth forests In a paper recently published in the journal Biological Conservation, an international team ...

This Easter, researchers reveal why some parents eat their kids' eggs: it's because they care As you bite into a ...

Credit: University of Missouri The lamprey, an eel-like primitive vertebrate, is a popular organism for neurobiology studies because it has ...

The scientific community has long held an understanding about the effect of temperature on sperm production in mammals, but this ...

In years when winter conditions are especially harsh, birds that depend on conifer seeds for food are sometimes forced to ...

AUSTIN, Texas - Leaders from department-level initiatives across the U.S. weigh in on how academic medicine is embracing population health ...

Credit: Jennifer Smith In coral reef ecosystems, amid stony corals, fronds of algae and schools of fish, microorganisms are essential ...

The discovery highlights the urgent need of modern DNA tools when studying rapidly declining animal groups like amphibiansCredit: Dr Robert ...

DNA sequences from Indonesia and New Guinea reveal new branches of the Denisovan family treeCredit: © Isabella Apriyana The findings ...

Credit: Photo courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Bacteria in the human body are sharing genes with one ...

UMD biologists found four bat lineages that live at least four times longer than similar-sized mammals and revealed new traits ...