Professor Teiji Sota, Department of Zoology at Kyoto University, and his group demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. This finding has been published in Nature Communications ...
Ecology
Feb 3, 2012
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An important part of saving a species is often understanding its DNA. Through a collaborative effort including 14 scientists representing organizations across Europe and the United States, researchers have been able to analyze ...
Biotechnology
Dec 28, 2011
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The history of evolution is periodically marked by explosions in biodiversity, as groups of species try out a wide range of shapes and sizes. With a new analysis of two such adaptive radiations in the fossil record, researchers ...
Evolution
Dec 20, 2011
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According to a paper published in the latest issue of Vertebrata PalAsiatic 2011(4), palontologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have identified two cricetid ...
Archaeology
Nov 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first complete genus-level dated phylogeny of palms reveals insights into the evolution of rainforests.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Reading overturns conventional views on the nature of evolution, arguing that mammals did not develop into their many different forms in one early and rapid burst of evolution ...
Evolution
Oct 20, 2011
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In terms of diversity, orchids are one of the most successful groups of flowering plants, with over 22,000 species. Both pollinating animals and mycorrhizal fungi are believed to have been important in the diversification ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2011
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Why different species have dissimilar sets of chromosomes? Why the differentiated species often conserve apparently identical chromosome complements? Furthermore, why, while chromosome rearrangements can considerably change ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 25, 2011
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More than 99 per cent of modern vertebrates (animals with a backbone, including humans) have jaws, yet 420 million years ago, jawless, toothless armour-plated fishes dominated the seas, lakes, and rivers. There were no vertebrates ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2011
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It's long been accepted by biologists that environmental factors cause the diversity -- or number -- of species to increase before eventually leveling off. Some recent work, however, has suggested that species diversity continues ...
Ecology
Dec 20, 2010
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