Water fleas on 'happy pills' have more offspring
Zooplankton can grow faster and produce more offspring when exposed to a substance that affects human happiness.
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2020
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News tagged with growth rates
Can we get along? Resilience can help promote civil discourse
For a variety of reasons 2020 has been stressful, frightening, and just plain exhausting. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, some of us have lost loved ones. Many are working from home, and others are unemployed. Wildfires ...
Social Sciences
Oct 29, 2020
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How bacteria adapt their machinery for optimum growth
The most important components for the functioning of a biological cell are its proteins. As a result, protein production is arguably the most important process for cell growth. The faster the bacterial growth rate, the faster ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 16, 2020
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Researchers reveal growth characteristics of duckweed in photoautotrophic, heterotrophic and mixotrophic conditions
Duckweeds (Lemnoideae) are a group of higher aquatic plants belonging to the Araceae and commonly found in freshwater habitats. They have been extensively studied as model plants in both theoretical research (photosynthesis, ...
Ecology
Oct 15, 2020
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Richest 1%'s emissions twice that of poorest 50%: analysis
The richest one percent of people are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the poorest half of the world's population—3.1 billion people—new research showed Monday.
Environment
Sep 21, 2020
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Climate crisis ages fish, amphibians and reptiles
Climatic conditions are changing at an unprecedented rate, affecting mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles, ectothermic animals that are unable to generate their own internal heat. With heat waves and rising temperatures, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2020
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Beavers appear to help the growth of brown trout in South America, study finds
In the early 1900s, brown trout and rainbow trout were introduced to southern South America for recreational fishing and early aquaculture initiatives. About 40 years later, American beaver were introduced in the same region ...
Evolution
Sep 02, 2020
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Balance between growth and adaptability shapes microbial success, evolution
One of the foremost challenges in biology is the quest to uncover the underlying rules that determine how biological organisms behave in different situations. Even seemingly simple questions, such as why bacteria grow at ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 17, 2020
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Multi-species bacterial communities bounce back from environmental disturbances
Scientists from Finland and Germany used bacteria as an example to study how communities consisting of several species respond to disturbances in their laboratory environment. Similar kinds of perturbations can occur in the ...
Ecology
Aug 10, 2020
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How growth rates influence the fitness of bacteria
Bacteria are survival artists: When they get nutrition, they multiply rapidly, albeit they can also survive periods of hunger. But, when they grow too quickly, their ability to survive is hampered, as studies by a research ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 06, 2020
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