Shark skin microbiome resists infection
Credit: © 2019 Claudia Pogoreutz A survey of the shark skin microbiome provides the first step toward understanding the remarkable ...
Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science
Stuck in a Polish nuclear weapon bunker cannibal wood ants found the way home
Credit: Wojciech Stephan In a recent development of the story about wood ants trapped in a post-Soviet nuclear weapon bunker ...
Online tool speeds response to elephant poaching by tracing ivory to source
Credit: Photo by Michael Jeffords and Susan Post CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new tool uses an interactive database of geographic ...
A new ranavirus threatens US amphibian diversity
Tennessee researchers help discover pathogen, model its spreadCredit: Photo courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Kudzu and emerald ash borer are ...
Bats in Northeast India carry filoviruses that can infect humans
Credit: Dr Zavei Hiese Researchers have proposed that bats are the natural reservoir of filoviruses, including highly fatal Ebola and ...
Zoo animal research skewed towards ‘popular’ species
Credit: Paul Rose Research on zoo animals focuses more on "familiar" species like gorillas and chimpanzees than less well known ...
This AI birdwatcher lets you ‘see’ through the eyes of a machine
New research aims to open the 'black box' of computer visionCredit: Chaofan Chen, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- It can ...
Study shows how climate change may affect environmental conservation areas
Researchers classify 258 protected areas in Brazil as 'moderately vulnerable' and 17 as 'highly vulnerable' -- areas at greatest risk ...
Insect decline more extensive than suspected
Causes of insect decline and biodiversity loss to be found at the landscape levelCredit: Dr. Ulrike Garbe / Landesamt für ...
First South American insect that emits blue light is discovered
Larvae of a fungus gnat found in Iporanga, São Paulo State, Brazil, have bioluminescent properties previously observed only in species ...
Detection dogs and DNA on the trail of endangered lizards
Noninvasive scat sampling could strengthen reptile conservationCredit: Mike Westphal, Bureau of Land Management Detection dogs trained to sniff out the ...
Leipzig primate researchers initiate global collaboration
First ManyPrimates study published todayCredit: Clara Dubois, Leipzig University, LFE The Wolfgang Koehler Primate Research Center is better known as ...
Facebook and Instagram gave away the presence of the ‘Japan pig’ seahorse in Taiwan
Credit: Chao-Tsung Chen While monitoring of cryptic and elusive tiny creatures, such as pygmy seahorses that measure only 13 to ...
Severe drought shuts down reproduction in copperhead snakes, study finds
Credit: Photo by Chuck Smith CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A long-term study of copperhead snakes in a forest near Meriden, Connecticut, ...
Fish more tolerant than expected to low oxygen events
Credit: University of Exeter Fish may be more tolerant than previously thought to periods of low oxygen in the oceans, ...
Gift to UT Austin will advance programs in biodiversity, establish fellowship program
Credit: University of Texas at Austin A generous estate gift to The University of Texas at Austin from alumna and ...
Insects share the same signaling pathway to form their 3-dimensional body
Credit: Siegfried Roth A signalling pathway controlling morphogenesis, the formation of the three-dimensional body shape in the fruit fly Drosophila, ...
California’s crashing kelp forest
How disease, warming waters, and ravenous sea urchins combined to kill the kelp and close the red abalone fisheryCredit: Peggy ...
Data mining applied to scholarly publications to finally reveal Earth’s biodiversity
Credit: P Kishor (Plazi) At a time when a million species are at risk of extinction, according to a recent ...
All is FAIR in biodiversity research: Mandatory data audit at Pensoft’s journals
A thorough data auditing workflow ensures that datasets described in data papers across Pensoft's OA journal portfolio are fit-to-use prior ...
