University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered the first known molecular evidence of obligate symbiosis in lichens, a distinctive co-evolutionary relationship that could shed new light on how and why some multicellular ...
Ecology
Feb 8, 2018
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It's the kind of thing you might lose sleep over.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 18, 2017
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Do researchers need to "hit the brakes a little" before declaring a species is new to science?
Ecology
Nov 14, 2017
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Mosquitoes are brilliant at two things – bringing misery to humans and quickly spoiling all efforts to shut them down.
Ecology
Sep 18, 2017
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Human interference in the deep sea could already be outpacing our basic understanding of how it functions.
Environment
Aug 21, 2017
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Scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have discovered that the chromosome responsible for the social organisation of colonies of the highly invasive fire ant is likely to have evolved via a single event rather ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2017
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New DNA-based research provides compelling evidence that a group of strange-looking fish living near the mouth of the Congo River are evolving due to the intense hydraulics of the river's rapids and deep canyons. The study, ...
Ecology
Feb 17, 2017
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Cichlids are a remarkably diverse family of fish, with many African freshwater species known for their incredible visual system. These cichlids' complex vision results from a diverse array of visual pigment proteins in their ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 4, 2017
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The South Hills crossbill, potentially a newly discovered species of finch, has evolved over the past 6,000 years with a unique dependence on its food source, the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine, in a coevolutionary arms race ...
Ecology
Oct 13, 2016
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James Cook University scientists have been using the spread of cane toads to examine genetic mechanisms that limit their range.
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2016
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