Researchers from The Institute for Integrative Systems Biology have discovered a new gene family of antimicrobial peptides (small proteins) –the Blattellicins– in a German cockroach (Blattella germanica). The study, published ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2020
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Increases in seawater temperature can cause coral bleaching through the loss of symbiotic algae. Corals can recover from bleaching by recruiting algae into host cells from the residual symbiont population or from the external ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2020
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Insects that feed only on plants have a number of challenges to overcome. But they also have some active helpers to assist them with the supply of important nutrients. So-called symbiotic microorganisms make essential amino ...
Ecology
Jun 12, 2020
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Scientists have discovered a malaria transmission-blocking microbe, making an important stride in the fight against the disease.
Plants & Animals
May 4, 2020
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In the warmer and brighter shallow waters of Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, the Hawaiian rice coral (Montipora capitata) hosts more heat-tolerant symbiotic microalgae in their tissues compared to corals in deeper waters. This pattern ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 21, 2020
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Deep-sea mussels, which rely on cooperative symbiotic bacteria for their food, harbor a surprisingly high diversity of these bacterial "cooks": Up to 16 different bacterial strains live in the mussel's gills, each with its ...
Ecology
Oct 15, 2019
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Scientists have seen for the first time how corals collaborate with other microscopic life to build and grow.
Ecology
Sep 24, 2019
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Researchers in Japan have identified the potential genes responsible for coral bleaching caused by temperature elevation.
Ecology
Jul 5, 2019
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Trichoplax is one of the simplest animals, resembling a shapeless blob. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, the University of Hawaii and North Carolina State University have ...
Evolution
Jun 10, 2019
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A genetic study uncovers that birds maintain a dynamic coevolutionary relationship with their feather mites. The study has involved the participation of the Estación Biológica de Doñana from the CSIC, and its results have ...
Evolution
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