#Genetic Pesticides Could Target Individual Speciesif you use a neuro-poison it kills everything Subba Reddy Palli an entomologist at the University of Kentucky who is researching the technology
In the 1970s Torkel Weis-Fogh a Danish zoologist at the University of Cambridge used high-speed photography to analyze the exact wing motions of hovering insects and compare them to the insects morphological features.
Charles Ellington a Cambridge zoologist and former Weis-Fogh student built a robotic wing that could precisely mimic the movements of a hawk moth.
The mangrove forests are edging out salt marshes said University of Maryland Entomology Professor Daniel S. Gruner a study co-author.
Florida naturalists noticed that mangroves now grow in places that once were too chilly for the tropical trees.
Academy scientist Brian Fisher an entomologist who specializes in the study of ants calls them the glue that holds ecosystems together.
In his time as a naturalist Charles darwin was fascinated with beetles and amassed one of the world's most important collections.
but are very difficult to collect says Dr. Dave Kavanaugh Senior Curator of Entomology at the Academy.
Through this research Academy scientists are carrying on the work of Charles darwin. And there are more species to come says Kavanaugh.
Williams the Academy's Curator of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology encountered the sea fan now named Chromoplexaura marki during a two-week survey of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
According to the paper published this year in the International Journal of Ichthyology sharks of this genus are nocturnally active bottom-living animals
and then you have these exotic strains that can cause very severe disease says Saeij the Robert A. Swanson Career Development Associate professor of Life sciences.
DNA of storied plant provides insight into the evolution of flowering plantsthe newly sequenced genome of the Amborella plant addresses Darwin's abominable mystery--the question of why flowers suddenly proliferated On earth millions of years ago.
therefore offer an explanation to Darwin's abominable mystery--the apparently abrupt proliferation of new species of flowering plants in fossil records dating to the Cretaceous period said Claude depamphilis of Penn State university.
Thanh-Lan Gluckman is a Phd candidate in the Evolutionary genetics group at the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.
She carried out this research during her MPHIL in the Department of Zoology University of Melbourne Australia.
ECB which was introduced to North america from Europe in the 1900s used to be the most important pest of corn in the United states said John Tooker assistant professor of entomology.
Our results confirm that we are seeing widespread population declines of ECB in the East similar to declines that have been found in the Midwestern United states said Eric Bohnenblust graduate student in entomology.
and woodpecker activity in the area said Christopher Whelan an avian ecologist with the Illinois Natural history Survey UIC adjunct assistant professor of biology
of Journal of Mammalogy. It suggests that they may be more resistant to climate change than we thought.
Funding for the study came from the National Science Foundation University of Utah the Wilderness Society Southwestern Association of Naturalists Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology and American Society of Mammalogists.
This widespread tree family has been puzzling botanists for a while due to its complicated taxonomic structure and the morphological similarities between the different genera
and to manage valued habitats into the future we need a more sophisticated understanding of their human as much as their natural history.
Indeed one indication of how far removed we are from a truly'natural'landscape in England uninfluenced by human activity is the fact that natural scientists argue over what precise form this might have taken.
Teens from Ottawa and rural British columbia published their research in this week's issue of a scientific journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist.
My research won first prize at the Ottawa regional science fair and two of the judges were editors of The Canadian Field-Naturalist.
Local scientists recommended Daust publish his research in The Canadian Field-Naturalist to share his findings with the scientific community.
since this has huge ramifications for the agriculture industry says Dr. Hannah Burrack an associate professor of entomology at NC State
However small native bees did not have high abundance nor appear to have high visitation rates This highlights the importance of incorporating multiple metrics says Dr. David Tarpy an associate professor of entomology at NC State
Ericaceae) Agroecosystems was published online Nov 25 in the journal Environmental Entomology. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by North carolina State university.
However in an article in the Journal of Economic Entomology called Evaluation of Tolerance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins Among Laboratory-Reared Western Bean Cutworm (Lepidoptera:
and it's the oldest representative of its family said Sam Heads a paleoentomologist at the Illinois Natural history Survey at the University of Illinois. More importantly it's possible that this wasp was associated fig
Comparing insect fossils with living organisms offers new insights into the natural history of insects the plants they pollinate
To enable basic and applied research of this important pest Drosophila suzukii we sequenced the genome to obtain a high-quality reference sequence said molecular geneticist Joanna Chiu of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
and the American Museum of Natural history as part of a $5. 8 million project on the biology and management of spotted wing drosophila funded by a U s. Department of agriculture Specialty Crops Research Initiative grant
to OSU entomologist Vaughn Walton and a team of investigators including Professor Frank Zalom of the UC Davis Department of Entomology
and Nematology who is the lead UC Davis investigator. Zalom recently inducted as president of the nearly 7000-member Entomological Society of America said that the G3 article presents a high-quality reference sequence of Drosophila suzukii examination of the basic properties of its genome
and cast Joanna Chiu as a central figure in future Drosophila suzukii genomic studies related to topics such as insecticide detoxification odorant reception and regulatory entomology Zalom
OSU entomologist Vaughn Walton lead investigator of the USDA grant said: Scientists from all over the world are interested in knowledge locked inside the fly's genetic material.
and the Frank Zalom lab both in Department of Entomology and Nematology and David Begun's drosophila evolutionary genetics lab in the Department of Evolution and Ecology.
Ernest Lee from the American Museum of Natural history; and Xuanting Jiang and Guojie Zhang of the China National Genebank BGI-Shenzhen.
and Zoological Society or London warns that the world's largest tropical desert the Sahara has suffered a catastrophic collapse of its wildlife populations.
In addition they created a living Podocarpaceae collection in the Botanic Garden of the Ruhr-Universitã¤t
which promotes the protection of rare and endangered species. The Bochum team propagate the species and pass them on to other botanic gardens worldwide.
) African Wildlife Foundation Zoological Society of Milwaukee World Wildlife Fund Max Planck Institute Lukuru Foundation University of Stirling Kyoto University and other groups.
This long passage is outlined in an earlier publication in New Phytologist. Rhizophagus irregularis is the next in this linage to be released by the DOE JGI it follows the ectomycorrhizal fungal symbiont Laccaria the poplar rust pathogen Melampsora and dozens of bacterial genomes.
and Mexican botanists had figured out their correct names some time ago. This was overlooked however in the most recent treatment resulting in an erroneous merging
and the College of Agriculture and Life sciences of Texas A&m University recently announced the release of'Carotex-312'a new high-yielding orange-fruited Habanero type F1 hybrid pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq.).
Nadir Erbilgin associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Forest Entomology in the U of A's Department of Renewable Resources has been investigating pheromones--airborne chemical compounds that trigger a social response among individuals
The U of A study published recently in New Phytologist investigated the tree chemical compounds that play critical roles in the beetle's pheromone production and attraction in both their established lodgepole pine host and in the newer jack pine host.
#Tasmania home to first alpine sword-sedgeresearchers from the University of New england (Australia) and the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney (Australia) have discovered a high-altitude species of sedge
Karen Wilson (Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney) described this new species in the open access journal Phytokeys.
We usually think of animals'chemical signals (called pheromones) as communication systems that convey only very simple sorts of information said Christina Grozinger professor of entomology and director of the Center for Pollinator Research Penn State.
because recording of natural history didn't really begin until the 1730s and was not detailed.
#Botany: The secret of short stemsarabidopsis plants that only reach half their normal height have a mutation in the biosynthesis of the plant growth factor gibberellin.
and botany as it allows us to visualize the internal tissues of specimens without damaging them in the least.
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Northwest A & F University Yangling and the Museum of Haelongjiang in China Trinity college Dublin and the Natural history Museum in Copenhagen.
and less manoeuvrable so that they are more likely to be caught by predators'said Damien Farine of Oxford university's Department of Zoology who led the research.'
#Elusive bay cat caught on camerathe world's least known cat has been caught on camera in a previously unsurveyed rainforest by scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Imperial College London.
Dr Robert Ewers from the Department of Life sciences at Imperial College London leads the SAFE tropical forest conservation project in Borneo where the bay cats were seen.
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Dorothee Huchon of TAU's Department of Zoology have found that unlike the Near Eastern wild boars in surrounding countries Israel's wild boars originated in Europe.
-and life-science methods to study the Iron age. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by American Friends of Tel aviv University.
which was conducted by a team of plant scientists from the United states and China and published Oct 18 in Nature Communications.
The data told us something major was happening in four different groups of bees at the same time says Rehan of UNH's College of Life sciences and Agriculture.
Foundation the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and Cleveland Zoological Society the Andean Bear Conservation Alliance Woodland Park Zoo and other generous
At the same time industries and automobiles continued to steadily emit carbon dioxide that contributed to a botanical boom.
The agency passed the carcasses along to researchers at the Illinois Natural history Survey for analysis and the University of Illinois Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory conducted autopsies.
As part of this effort the research team led by wildlife technical assistant Samantha Carpenter and wildlife veterinary epidemiologist Nohra Mateus-Pinilla both with the natural history survey and U. of
The research team also included Illinois pathobiology professor Kuldeep Singh Robert Bluett of the Illinois Department of Natural resources and Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips and Nelda Rivera both of the natural history survey.
http://dx. plos. org/10.1371/journal. pone. 0077009the research was funded by the Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC.
and ant specialist Phil Ward professor of entomology at UC Davis. Despite great interest in the ecology and behavior of these insects their evolutionary relationships have never been clarified fully.
of Entomology and Nematology and visiting scientist Ernest K. Lee of the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics American Museum of Natural history.
Led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural history the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Bats which are important reservoir hosts for many pathogens particularly viruses have been hosts to malaria parasites for more than a century said coauthor Susan Perkins an associate curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.
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and understanding how environmental and biological factors affect root structure is of key importance for plant scientists--particularly agricultural scientists.
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However a new study published in the Journal of Economic Entomology suggests that Bt sweet corn is better for the environment
Across multiple states and multiple years Bt sweet corn performed better and required fewer sprays to meet market standards said Cornell entomology professor Anthony Shelton.
Their findings which are reported in the journal New Phytologist elucidate the role played by the enzyme anthocyanidin reductase (ANR) in the switching process.
Now a research team led by entomologists at the University of California Riverside has published a study that focuses on an anthropogenic pollutant:
and can even be deposited atmospherically on the hive itself said Kristen Hladun the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral entomologist.
The two studies were conducted by Adiga Life sciences a joint venture between Mcmaster University and Circassia a U k. based biotechnology company and was supported by St joseph's Healthcare Hamilton.
The Asian Giant hornets are armored dangerous heavily predators says Ken Tan the first author of the paper who also works at the Chinese Academy of Science's Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden.
which olfactory receptor insects used to avoid DEET said Anandasankar Ray an associate professor of entomology who led the research team.
Gary Stacey an investigator in the MU Bond Life sciences Center and professor of plant sciences in the College of Agriculture Food and Natural resources found that crops such as corn are confused
They published their findings in a Special Section in the American Journal of Botany on Rhizosphere Interactions:
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Recently however a research team led by a University of California Davis plant scientist used DNA sequencing technologies to paint a broad picture of how citrus greening impacts trees before they even show signs of infection offering hope for developing diagnostic
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#A day in the life of the mysterious odd-clawed spider Progradungula otwayensisa recent paper published in the open access journal Zookeys provides a first time glimpse in the natural history of the enigmatic spider species Progradungula otwayensis.
and found catching ladders and supporting webs of juveniles inside of itcomments the lead author of the study Peter Michalik Zoological Institute
Martã n Ramã rez from the Argentinian Museum of Natural history and co-author of the study commented on the habitat specificity of this species confined to the oldest and extensively hollow myrtle beech trees in the humid forests in the western part of the Great
Their publication appears online in the journal New Phytologist. The weed-killer glyphosate sold under the brand name Roundup kills plants by inhibiting a growth-related pathway activated by the epsps gene.
The study featured on the cover of the September issue of the American Journal of Botany used a special microscope to reveal how nanostructures help contain damage within microscopic cavities called bordered pits in wood-fiber cells.
The American Journal of Botany is one of the 10 most influential journals over the last 100 years in the field of biology and medicine according to the Biomedical & Life sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association.
Dr Samik Datta of the WIDER group based at the School of Life sciences at the University of Warwick said:
when you start looking at the natural history of things even microbes which people don't study very much you discover that amazing things are going on Queller said.
University paleobotanist and a Russian botanist. The tulip tree Liriodendron tulipfera has been considered part of the magnolia family. But David Dilcher of Indiana University Bloomington and Mikhail S. Romanov of the N. V. Tsitsin Main Botanical garden in Moscow show that it is closely related to fossil plant specimens from the Lower Cretaceous period.
The article Fruit structure in Magnoliaceae s l. and Archaeanthus and their relationships appears in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Botany.
The scientists acknowledged funding from the Memphis Zoological Society in addition to past funding from the Mississippi Corn Promotion Board the U s. Department of energy and Southeastern Research center at Mississippi State.
He is an emeritus professor of entomology at Virginia Tech and an authority on colony decline in bees.
The authors acknowledge funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's republic of china the National Natural science Foundation of China the Special Fund for Forestry Scientific research in the Public interest the Organization Department of the Central Committee the Fundamental Research
what we do said co-author Doug Soltis a distinguished professor at the Florida Museum of Natural history on the UF campus and UF's biology department.
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and Hydrology (CEH) University of East Anglia University of Bristol and Institute of Zoology instead took advantage of bumblebees'unusual genetics.
of Zoology. The research is funded by the national Insect Pollinators Initiative. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by British Ecological Society (BES.
In an article published recently in the American Ornithologist Union's publication The Auk research wildlife biologist Scott Stoleson of the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station suggests that forest regrowth in clearcuts
The study appears in the July issue of the Journal of Zoology. Authors include: Steven Platt of the Wildlife Conservation Society;
Hong Liu of Florida International University and the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Thomas R. Rainwater of the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service;
Dr Claire Spottiswoode from the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology who carried out the research said:
and published their findings recently in the American Journal of Botany. Naturalists are very comfortable with the idea of animals gaining a biological advantage by choosing to live together in high density'colonies'--such as ant nests or seabird rookeries--in certain parts of the landscape notes Hall.
But when it comes to plants there is a bit of a subconscious assumption that the purpose of seed dispersal is to simply spread seeds as far and as evenly as possible across the broadest possible area.
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the Beijing Museum of Natural history; the National Science Foundation; Carnegie Museum; and the University of Chicago.
An international collaboration of plant scientists from VIB and Ghent University (Belgium) the University of Dundee (UK) The James Hutton Institute (UK) and the University of Wisconsin (USA) identified a new gene in the biosynthetic
The discovery of the olinguito shows us that the world is explored not yet completely its most basic secrets not yet revealed said Kristofer Helgen curator of mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural history
and Earth Observation Lab at the North carolina Museum of Natural sciences to help organize a field expedition.
With confirmation of the olinguito's existence via a few seconds of grainy video shot by their colleague Miguel Pinto a zoologist in Ecuador Helgen
In 1920 a zoologist in New york thought an olinguito museum specimen was so unusual that it might be a new species
Logistical and financial support for this study was provided by the Amur-Ussuri Centre for Avian Diversity with additional funding from the Bell Museum of Natural history Columbus Zoo Conservation Fund Denver Zoological Foundation
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In a study published this week in the journal Biological Invasions U s. Forest Service entomologist Andrew Liebhold
Data used in the study were collected by volunteers for Project Feederwatch a Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Bird Studies Canada project in
--and gradually spreading in the state said UC Davis entomology professor James Carey an international authority on fruit-fly invasion biology
and speaks to the urgent need to alter current eradication policies aimed at invasive species said horticultural entomologist Michael Parrella professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
Frank Zalom incoming president of the Entomological Society of America and a UC Davis entomology professor said the new study provides a careful and systematic analysis of fruit-fly finds
Carey collaborated with lead study author Nikos Papadopoulos an entomologist at the University of Thessaly Greece and Richard Plant a UC Davis professor emeritus of plant sciences and biological and agricultural engineering.
and the number of cohorts that appeared each season we had no clear understanding of the difference between distinct and continuous reproduction said Ottar N. Bjã¸rnstad professor of entomology biology and statistics Penn State.
Alex Feldwinn a computer technician in the Life science Computing Group at UCSB said It really smells like a dead animal--not just a dead animal but a rotting one.
The entire community has been holding its collective breath waiting for UCSB's Amorophallus titanum its proper botanic name to bloom.
Discovered in 1878 by the Florentine botanist Odoardo Beccarini the Titan arum another common name given the plant by Sir David Attenborough in his BBC nature documentary series heats up as it blooms
Staff at the UCSB biology greenhouse had the foresight to contact the U s. Botanic Garden in Washington D c. to secure pollen from its plant (nicknamed Mortimer in social media that bloomed July 21.
when viewed under a microscope says entomologist Jack Longino a professor of biology. Their faces are broad shields the eyes reduced to tiny points at the edges and the fierce jaws bristling with sharp teeth.
Longino named one species Eurhopalothrix ortizae after Patricia Ortiz a Costa rican naturalist who died in a rock-fall accident this year.
The research published in the American Journal of Primatology found that it is common for orangutans to come down from the trees to forage
The research published in the American Journal of Primatology found that it is common for orangutans to come down from the trees to forage
It also has one of the largest communities of plant scientists in the UK. Dr Susan Huxtable Director of Intellectual Property Commercialisation at The University of Nottingham believes that the N-Fix technology has significant implications for agriculture she said:
Wang's multiple gene knockdown method is a first in entomology and it overcomes the many shortfalls associated with typical single-gene targeting methods A common problem associated with single gene suppression is that it is not sufficient to show the interrelationship of a gene network.
The research is published in the July issue of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Carole Baldwin a zoologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural history examined more than 200 species of marine fishes in their larval stage primarily from the western Caribbean.
Also lending support were scientists in New york at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the American Museum of Natural history.
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and 65 percent of the insect and pathogen invaders included in this study colonize hardwood tree species said Liebhold a research entomologist with the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station.
The winners are defended well against herbivoresthe Bernese plant scientists could show that at the beginning of the experiment mainly species with a high seed mass germinated in the grasslands.
Funding for the new studies was provided by the Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada the Canada Research Chairs program the Wisconsin Cranberry Board the Cranberry Institute the Fonds qu b cois de la recherche sur
Publishing their results next month in a special edition of the academic journal Annals of Botany the research team has shown the impact of Deroceras reticulatum
while at Newcastle University and is based now at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. We know a lot about the benefits
The research by Hairong Wei Yordan Yordanov and Victor Busov was published by the international journal New Phytologist.
Monica Turner the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Zoology and graduate student Jiangxiao Qiu mapped the production distribution and interactions of the services in three main categories:
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These insects they have only one generation per year said University of Illinois entomology department senior scientist Manfredo Seufferheld who led the study.
Controlling rootworms is an expensive concern faced by all Midwest corn growers said study co-author Joseph Spencer an insect behaviorist at the Illinois Natural history Survey (part of the Prairie Research Institute
and weed science at Virginia Tech said that William Hamilton a pioneer botanist who corresponded with William Bartram
Kasson and colleagues report in a recent issue of the Northeastern Naturalist thatailanthus can invade quickly in areas where large continuous stands of trees are cut down--clearcuts
While the tree was isolated initially to the properties of a few botanists and wealthy plant collectors commercialization of ailanthus after 1820 coupled with railroad construction projects that connected the eastern and western parts of the state in the mid-1800s intensified its spread according to Kasson who worked with Matthew Davis lab
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