In seahorses and pipefish, it is the male that gets pregnant and gives birth. Seahorse fathers incubate their developing embryos in a pouch located on their tail.
Plants & Animals
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., has found that dolphins living in the area where the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred have experienced changes in gene activity. In their paper ...
A team of researchers with members affiliated with several institutions in Japan has learned more about the process involved in the development of natural symbiotic relationships by engineering an artificial one between E. ...
Without bumble bees, a flowering plant that can self-pollinate lost substantial genetic variation within only nine generations, an experimental study found.
Evolution
Aug 10, 2022
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Scientists have discovered the world's largest bacterium in a Caribbean mangrove swamp.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 26, 2022
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Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have discovered an aberrant protein that's deadly to bacteria. In a paper just published in the journal PLOS ONE, the scientists ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 29, 2022
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To provide important genomic data to inform research about Europe's biodiversity, scientists from 48 different countries initiated the "European Reference Genome Atlas" (ERGA) in 2021. Along with over 600 researchers, scientists ...
Ecology
Jan 26, 2022
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For the endangered Hawaiian plant Eugenia koolauensis, fungi could be both its demise and its savior. The fungal pathogen myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) has been devastating populations of the endemic tree, along with ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2021
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Cells have their own quality control to prevent the production and accumulation of harmful proteins. This quality control is essential for correct embryonic development in all mammals and plays an important role in tumors ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 20, 2021
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A group of researchers from Kobe University and Chiba University has successfully developed a flexible and simple method of artificially producing genetic switches for yeast, a model eukaryotic organism. The group consisted ...
Biotechnology
Apr 14, 2021
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