Giant pandas' distinctive black and white markings provide effective camouflage, study finds
The high-contrast pattern of giant pandas helps them blend in with their natural environment.
The high-contrast pattern of giant pandas helps them blend in with their natural environment.
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2021
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Just when we thought it was safe to go to the local garden center, researchers from Japan have discovered that fungicide-resistant strains of a nasty pathogen have been getting up to no good among the tulip bulbs.
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2021
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Velloziaceae is a monocot family that is made up of five genera and c. 250 species with a disjunct distribution in Africa mainland, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula, China and South America. They are recognized as the largest ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2021
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Sunlight influences an array of biochemical processes in plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. In numerous organisms, phytochromes—a special class of photoreceptors—absorb red or far-red light and transform it into signals ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 20, 2021
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Acanthocalyx is a small herbaceous genus in the Caprifoliaceae that is endemic to the high-altitude regions in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountain (HHM) region. It is considered as an ideal group to study how geomorphological ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2021
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Clethra fargessi Franch., in the family Clethraceae, is an important plant with ornamental value and environmental adaptability that widely distributed in mountainous areas of Central China. So far, Clethra delavayi Franch. ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 10, 2021
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A research group from Kumamoto University, Japan has developed a highly sensitive technique to quantitatively evaluate the extent of cytoskeleton bundling from microscopic images. Until now, analysis of cytoskeleton organization ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 14, 2021
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Nagoya University scientists in Japan and colleagues at Yale University in the US have uncovered details of how the bacterial propeller, known as the flagellum, switches between counterclockwise and clockwise rotation, allowing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 5, 2020
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Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million families around the world whose livelihoods ...
Biotechnology
Apr 20, 2020
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A team of researchers from several institutions in the U.K. and one in the U.S. has found that human culture evolves just as slowly as biological evolution. In their paper published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, the ...