Ten years ago, when Prof. Neville Pillay first started investigating the semi-desert-dwelling African striped mouse or Rhabdomys in the Goegap Nature Reserve near Springbok, Northern Cape, he never anticipated how important ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2012
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Trying to catch striped bass in Cape Cod Bay these days? You might be competing with an incredibly powerful apex predator.
Plants & Animals
Jul 21, 2023
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Field biologists following thousands of wild zebras in Africa used to joke about how nice it would be to have a bar code reader to help them identify and catalogue individual animals.
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2011
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Stripe rust is one of the most destructive wheat diseases in the world, especially in the United States. While the disease can be controlled by chemicals, those may be harmful to humans, animals, and the environment and the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 17, 2020
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Preliminary results from a 2011 survey conducted by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) suggest the production of a strong class of young-of-year striped bass in the Virginia portion of Chesapeake ...
Ecology
Oct 17, 2011
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A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Konstanz, headed by Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer, has discovered the genetic basis for the repeated evolution of colour patterns. The findings about the stripes of the diverse ...
Evolution
Oct 25, 2018
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Scientists at Newcastle University have shown that patterns—particularly stripes which are easy to spot when an animal is still—can also help conceal speeding prey.
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2019
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Is the new TAM 113 wheat variety a replacement for popular TAM 111 or TAM 112 varieties?
Biotechnology
Aug 28, 2012
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In a new camera trap survey in the world's most biologically diverse landscape, researchers for the Wildlife Conservation Society have identified more individual jaguars than ever before.
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Missouri University of Science and Technology have discovered magnetic stripes in Ethiopia that could indicate the coming formation of a new ocean basin in the next two million years or so. ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2012
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