If your favourite pub moves – would you move too or look for another pub? For bacteria living in symbiosis with marine worms it all depends on whether they sit outside or inside the pub. Scientifically speaking: bacteria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 11, 2016
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A group of scientists from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Nagoya University, and the University of Tokyo decoded the first lingulid brachiopod genome, from Lingula anatina collected ...
Archaeology
Sep 18, 2015
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The bite of a bloodworm delivers venom that causes severe allergic reactions. Scientists studying the venom for the first time have discovered why it causes a reaction similar to that of a bee sting.
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2014
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During development, vertebrate embryos rely on a process called segmentation to establish fundamental body patterning. This entails the formation of orderly bands of cells, which can subsequently contribute to the formation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2013
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Recent molecular phylogenetic analysis has shown that the marine animals known as peanut worms are not a separate phylum, but are definitely part of the family of annelids, also known as segmented worms. This is a classification ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2011
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Animals that seem identical may belong to completely different species. This is the conclusion of researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who have used DNA analyses to discover that one of our most common segmented ...
Evolution
Apr 22, 2009
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