Flexible diet may help leaf-eating lemurs resist deforestation
Fruits and veggies are good for you and if you are a lemur, they may even help mitigate the effects of habitat loss.
Fruits and veggies are good for you and if you are a lemur, they may even help mitigate the effects of habitat loss.
Plants & Animals
Apr 23, 2021
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Some of the best-known human pathogens—from the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis to the diarrhea pathogen Salmonella—use a tiny hypodermic needle to inject disease-causing proteins into their host's cells, thereby manipulating ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 15, 2021
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Michelle O'Malley has long been inspired by gut microbes. Since she began studying the herbivore digestive tract, the UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor has guided several students to their doctoral degrees, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 1, 2021
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Russian scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), G. B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (PIBOC FEB RAS), and A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center for Marine Biology (NSCMB FEB RAS) have ...
Biochemistry
Jun 26, 2020
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A team of researchers from the Danube Research Institute and the National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, both in Hungary, and Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas ...
Limpets—those coin-sized, suction-cup critters with conical caps—have had the experts fooled all along.
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2020
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After conducting a field trial at a tomato farm near Ravenna, Italy, a team of plant pathologists and agronomists found that nitrogen fertilizers shape the composition and predicted functions of the plant microbiota. The ...
Biotechnology
Jan 29, 2020
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A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find in understanding the early history of animals on Earth.
Archaeology
Jan 10, 2020
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When food we've swallowed reaches our stomachs, it finds an acidic environment. The low pH in the stomach helps to begin digestion—and has been thought to kill the bacteria that hides in food that otherwise could harm our ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2020
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Sea lilies, despite their name, aren't plants. They're animals related to starfish and sea urchins, with long feathery arms resting atop a stalk that keeps them anchored to the ocean floor. Sea lilies have been around for ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 9, 2019
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