DNA barcode sequencing without the amplification of DNA by PCR beats the problem of false positives which can inflate estimates of biodiversity, finds a study published in BioMed Central and BGI Shenzhen's open access journal ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 26, 2013 not rated yet 0

Small hive beetles are indigenous to Africa, but have been damaging beehives in the United States and Australia for several years. Rowan Sprague, a University of Virginia fourth-year student, wants to stop ...

Biology - Other

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

It can take years of direct observation for a researcher to fully understand the diets of a community of herbivorous insects in a tropical rain forest. Now, five Smithsonian scientists are paving a fast track ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

For the first time, the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes—a type of lemur—have been sequenced and analyzed in an effort to help guide conservation efforts. The results of the ...

Biology - Biotechnology

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Scientists from CSIRO and the University of Western Australia have teamed up with Kimberley Traditional Owners to test a new molecular technique that has the potential to revolutionise the discovery of new ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 25, 2013 not rated yet 1

A new laboratory dedicated to technologies at the cutting edge of an emerging field of robotics could radically improve the way search and rescue operations are conducted. The Monash Swarm Robotics Laboratory ...

Electronics - Robotics

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens is a constant companion of some roundworms. These worms assault insect larvae, thereby infecting them with the bacteria; the pathogens then attack the cells of their ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 21, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

The European Commission said Tuesday it will try again to get member states to back a two-year ban on insecticides harmful to bees whose numbers have been in sharp and worrying decline.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 19, 2013 not rated yet 0

Insect or microbe: plants recognize their attackers and respond by producing specific internal signals that induce the appropriate chemical defenses. That is the main conclusion of a study at the Center for ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 19, 2013 not rated yet 1

(Phys.org) —Researchers in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture have identified 14 molecular markers in bed bugs that allow them to be resistant to pyrethroid insecticides. Pest control professionals ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 15, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0

Scientists already knew that some social bee species warn their conspecifics when detecting the presence of a predator near their hive, which in turn causes an attack response to the possible predator. Researchers ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 14, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

New research on household pesticide contamination emphasizes the need for less reliance on pesticides and more emphasis on neatness, blocking cracks where insects can enter and other so-called "integrated ...

Chemistry - Other

Mar 13, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org) —Scientists have delved deeper into the evolutionary history of the fruit fly than ever before to reveal the genetic activity that led to the development of wings – a key to the insect's ability ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 11, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0 |

For hundreds of years, naturalists and scientists have identified new species based on an organism's visible differences. But now, new genetic techniques are revealing that different species can show little, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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(Phys.org) —A significant field discovery analyzing how natural temperature fluctuations affect the growth rate of the dengue mosquito could lead to crucial control-and-prevention strategies, according ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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