University of Pennsylvania evolutionary biologists have resolved a long-standing paleontological problem by reconciling the fossil record of species diversity with modern DNA samples.
Evolution
Sep 19, 2011
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The majority of orchids are found in habitats where light may be a limiting factor. In such habitats it is not surprising that many achlorophyllous (lacking chlorophyll), as well as green, orchids depend on specific mycorrhizal ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 12, 2011
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Just as a company creates new, better versions of a product to increase market share and pad its bottom line, an international team of researchers led by Brown University has found that plants tinker with their design and ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers have shown that genetic similarity may come from preferential gene sharing rather than shared ancestry.
Cell & Microbiology
May 18, 2010
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Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions have recently discovered a new species of Fabaceae in Zhuxi and Shennongjia of Hubei, China.
Plants & Animals
Feb 16, 2023
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Thoracotremata (Brachyura, Decapoda) is the most derived crab group, encompassing 1,248 extant species. It currently comprises four superfamilies: Grapsoidea MacLeay, Ocypodoidea Rafinesque, Cryptochiroidea Paulson and Pinnotheroidea ...
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2022
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For the first time, a complete time-calibrated phylogeny for a large group of invertebrates is published for an entire continent.
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2020
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Acanthiophilus is a genus of fruit flies that infest plants of the tribe Cardueae (thistles) within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus live in Africa, the Canary Islands, Europe, and Asia. Some species of Acanthiophilus ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2015
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Diets of snakes from a temperate region in South America may depend more on phylogeny (ancestry) than ecology, according to a study published May 6, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Gisela Bellini from Instituto ...
Plants & Animals
May 6, 2015
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Fishes account for over half of vertebrate species, but while groups such as mammals, birds and reptiles have been fairly well understood by scientists for decades, knowledge about relationships among many types of fishes ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2013
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