Scientists increasingly realize the importance of gut and other microbes to our health and well-being, but one UC Berkeley biologist is asking whether these microbes—our microbiota—might also have played a role in shaping ...
Evolution
Apr 21, 2016
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Queen and worker ants develop from the same sets of genes, but perform completely different ecological roles. How the same genes result in two types of individuals is an ongoing mystery. In the past, scientists have only ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2016
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A new review provides intriguing insights on parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, in snakes.
Plants & Animals
Jan 4, 2016
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During the earliest evolution on earth, life probably resembled one big genetic jumble. At some time, presumably around 3.8 to 3.5 billion years before today, the very first biological species appeared – the ancestor of ...
General Physics
Nov 23, 2015
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Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have shown that under certain circumstances evolution can be highly predictable, especially in terms of how creatures become resistant to dangerous toxins.
Evolution
Sep 7, 2015
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The Krüppel-like factor and specificity protein (KLF/SP) genes are found across many species, ranging from single cell organisms to humans. This gene family has been conserved during evolution, because it plays a vital role ...
Evolution
Aug 18, 2015
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The origin of vascular plants, more than 400 million years ago, changed the surface of our planet forever.
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2015
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Amateur cook-offs like the hugely popular Master Chef series now in its seventh season in Australia have been part of our TV diet for almost two decades.
Archaeology
Jun 5, 2015
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Revolutionary developments in the study of the DNA of our fossil ancestors are forcing a major rewrite of the human evolutionary story.
Archaeology
May 26, 2015
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Today, invasive animals and plants spread all around the globe. Predicting the dynamics of these invasions is of great ecological and socioeconomical interest. Yet studying them is fundamentally challenging because of the ...
Ecology
Apr 22, 2015
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