Cereal farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing heavy losses due to the devastation by an invasive pest: the Fall army worm - Spodoptera frugiperda. In Africa it has caused huge losses to staple cereals, especially ...
Ecology
May 8, 2018
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A study of genetically diverse worms finds that the length of their backward movement is under the control of a small protein called a neuropeptide that fluctuates in response to food availability. The research, published ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2018
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You might not know it, but you have probably met the mud dragon before. They live at the beach, hidden in the sand and floating in the shallows.
Plants & Animals
Apr 23, 2018
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Slugs and snails are the bane of almost every vegetable planting gardener and farmer. Slugs in particular have voracious appetites and are relentless in eating stems, leaves and shoots. No wonder gardeners have sought any ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 10, 2018
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In the Mackenzie Mountains of Canada, University of Kansas researcher Julien Kimmig has uncovered details of the Cambrian food web on an ocean floor that once played home to a scattering of bivalved arthropods, hyoliths and ...
Archaeology
Apr 3, 2018
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A family of potent protein neurotoxins have been discovered in bootlace worms, a University of Queensland researcher has found.
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2018
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John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who helped decode the human genome, has died. He was 75.
Biotechnology
Mar 9, 2018
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Do you know about "comparative spermatology?" It's the science of describing spermatozoa. A first international congress was devoted to it in 1970. In 1976, more than 1,000 animal species had their spermatozoa described by ...
Evolution
Mar 9, 2018
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When laboratory mice moved to the countryside where they could burrow in dirt, forage for food and generally live like ordinary mice, they became more susceptible to infection with parasitic whipworms than mice that stayed ...
Ecology
Mar 8, 2018
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Put 50 newborn worms in 50 separate containers, and they'll all start looking for food at roughly the same time. Like members of other species, microscopic C. elegans roundworms tend to act like other individuals their own ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 16, 2018
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