Symbiosis between fungi and microalgae gives rise to lichen. Some lichen, however, such as Lobaria scrobiculata, have a unique feature: The fungus establishes a symbiosis with a cyanobacteria, thus requiring water in liquid ...
Biotechnology
Nov 29, 2017
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Why is sex so popular among plants and animals, and why isn't asexual reproduction, or cloning, a more common reproductive strategy?
Evolution
May 4, 2017
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While Climate change steadily takes its toll, promising to raise temperatures around the world by at least 1.5 °C within the next 100 years, organisms have already started defending their species' existence in their own ...
Other
Jun 20, 2016
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A 3-inch monogamous hermaphrodite proves the saying "there's plenty more fish in the sea" isn't always the case.
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2016
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University of Exeter ecologist Dave Hodgson works with other academics to manage a plant database called COMPADRE that brings together demographic information about plant species. This database has been used to show plant ...
Ecology
Dec 21, 2015
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Researchers have found regional differences in the reproductive strategies of one of Australia's most abundant stingray species, the sparsely-spotted stingaree (Urolophus paucimaculatus), leading them to question whether ...
Ecology
Feb 11, 2015
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It's a cliché to say it takes a village to raise a child, but it's a cliché some creatures have taken to heart.
Ecology
Dec 11, 2014
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Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new reproductive mode in frogs and toads - breeding and laying direct developing eggs in live bamboo with narrow openings - which was observed ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2014
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The Ribbed Mediterranean Limpet is one of the most endangered invertebrates of the Mediterranean Sea and is classed as being in danger of extinction. Researchers at the Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 13, 2013
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How a group of animals can abandon sex, yet produce more than 460 species over evolutionary time, became a little less mysterious this week with the publication of the complete genome of a bdelloid rotifer (Adineta vaga) ...
Biotechnology
Jul 22, 2013
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