Galapagos hawks hand down lice like family heirlooms
Say what you will about the parasitic lifestyle, but in the evolution of life on Earth, it's a winner.
Plants & Animals
Aug 6, 2014
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A bacterial ballistic system
Many pathogenic bacteria use special secretion systems to deliver toxic proteins into host cells. Researchers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have determined the structure of a crucial part of one of these ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 20, 2014
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Birds evolve 'signature' patterns to distinguish cuckoo eggs from their own
For some birds, recognising their own eggs can be a matter of life or death. In a new study, scientists have shown that many birds affected by the parasitic Common Cuckoo - which lays its lethal offspring in other birds' ...
Evolution
Jun 18, 2014
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Study on evolution of flu viruses may change textbooks, history books
A new study reconstructing the evolutionary tree of flu viruses challenges conventional wisdom and solves some of the mysteries surrounding flu outbreaks of historical significance.
Evolution
Feb 16, 2014
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Research offers new insights into cross-species parasite transmission
(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a new mathematical model that helps to explain how some parasites predominantly associate with one particular host species-but are still capable of infecting ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 8, 2014
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New tales told by old infections
Retroviruses are important pathogens capable of crossing species barriers to infect new hosts, but knowledge of their evolutionary history is limited. By mapping endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), retroviruses whose genes have ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 25, 2013
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Peculiar, diverse and dangerous to crops: A checklist of the scale insects of Iran
A detailed annotated checklist of the scale insects of Iran, describing a total of 275 species from 13 families, represents a first effort towards a better knowledge of the Coccoidea family in attempt to improve the view ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2013
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New species of fascinating opportunistic shelter using leaf beetles
Many animals construct homes or shelters to escape from biological and physical hostilities. Birds, spiders, termites, ants, bees and wasps are the most famous animal architects. As shelter construction requires considerable ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2013
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Honeyguide birds destroy own species' eggs to eliminate competition
Like cuckoos, honeyguides are parasitic birds that lay their eggs in other birds' nests and dupe them into raising their young. Now scientists reveal that, unlike in cuckoos, the resemblance between honeyguide eggs and those ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2013
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18th century specimen reveals new South African weevil genus
The new weevil genus was discovered during a routine study of some weevil specimens collected by the Swedish botanist and entomologist Carl Peter Thunberg, a disciple of Carl Linnaeus, during his trips in the then Cape Colony ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 25, 2013
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