News tagged with habitat selection
First study of South-West Ghana bird health
The first ever study of the impact of habitat loss on the health and condition of birds in South-West Ghana will be conducted by a PhD student from The University of Queensland's (UQ) School of Geography Planning ...
Jul 28, 2011 |
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Curious butterflies are genetically different
Understanding mechanisms that are fundamental to changes in life history traits is crucial for our understanding of adaption by natural selection. While research in this field has improved, functional genomics ...
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Traits, genes associated with establishment of new populations revealed in butterfly study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists has discovered that descendants of "exploratory" butterflies that colonized new habitats differ genetically from their more cautious cousins. The team, led by James Marden, ...
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Analysis of bread mold genomes demos 'reverse-ecology' tool
In a demonstration of "reverse-ecology," biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that one can determine an organism's adaptive traits by looking first at its genome and checking for ...
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Animals successfully re-learn smell of kin after hibernation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Animals can re-establish their use of smell to detect siblings, even following an interruption such as prolonged hibernation, research at the University of Chicago on ground squirrels shows.
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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