and The british Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has found that feeding wild blue tits in winter resulted in less successful breeding during the following spring.
what that impact may be says Dr. David Tarpy an associate professor of entomology at North carolina State university
Bruce Tabashnik and Yves Carriã re in the department of entomology at the College of Agriculture and Life sciences together with visiting scholar Thierry Br vault from the Center for Agricultural Research for Development
and evolve resistance said Tabashnik head of the UA department of entomology who led the study.
Fred Gould professor of entomology at North carolina State university commented: It's great to have an up-to-date comprehensive review of
What we haven't had is clear chemical evidence combined with botanical and archaeological data showing how wine was introduced into France
The study carried out by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) describes how forests converted to palm oil plantations are causing threatened forest dwelling frogs to vanish resulting in an overall loss of habitat that is important for the conservation of threatened frog
Aisyah Faruk Phd student at ZSL's Institute of Zoology says: The impact we observed is different from that observed previously for mammals and birds.
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Allison Diamond Jove's Deputy Editorial Director for the Life sciences explains The addition of Jove Behavior will allow scientists to learn
Wouter Van dongen and colleagues from the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology of the Vetmeduni Vienna have collaborated with scientists from the Laboratoire Ãolution
and Jessica Schnell recently graduated now at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Germany. More accurate habitat maps show the extent of fragmentation
This discovery gives us an important lead in figuring out how honey bees are able to navigate so well with such a tiny brain said Gene Robinson a professor of entomology
#Bechsteins bat is more Mediterranean than originally thoughtalthough the Bechstein's bat is regarded as a Euro-Siberian species a study by researchers in the UPV/EHU's Department of Zoology
now a University of Florida entomologist wants to improve the netting by coating it with insecticide toxic only to mosquitoes.
but affect a broad range of species said entomologist Jeff Bloomquist a professor in UF's Emerging Pathogens Institute and its Institute of food and agricultural sciences.
Water supply is however only one amongst many ecosystem services affected by reforestation of the watershed said Perrings a professor in the School of Life sciences in ASU's College of Liberal arts and Sciences.
The announcement now in its sixth year coincides with the anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus--the 18th century Swedish botanist responsible for the modern system of scientific names and classifications.
whether botanical zoological or microbiological and have been named officially during 2012. Selecting the final list of new species from a wide representation of life forms such as bacteria fungi plants
and the special insights revealed by selection committee members said Antonio Valdecasas a biologist and research zoologist with Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid Spain.
and shared his photo on Flickr. Shaun Winterton an entomologist with the California Department of Food
When Guek was able to collect a specimen it was sent to Stephen Brooks at London's Natural history Museum who confirmed its new species status. The three joined forces
Scientists will need access to as much evidence of evolutionary history as possible said the institute's Wheeler who is also a professor in ASU's School of Life sciences in the College of Liberal arts and Sciences and in the School of Sustainability as well as a senior sustainability scientist
and North america and had been preserved in the herbaria of the Botanical State Collection Munich and the Kew Gardens in London.
Scientists of the Konrad-Lorenz-Institute of Ethology of the Vetmeduni Vienna for the first time tried to experimentally test the behaviour of reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) after a potential act of cheating by the female.
The study was funded by the Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada the Alberta Forestry Research Institute and industry partners Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Ainsworth Engineered Canada LP Daishowa-Marubeni International
The new species described in this revision Solanum agnoston discovered by Dr. Sandra Knapp Department of Life sciences The Natural history Museum UK comes from the inter Andean valleys of Southern Ecuador
The results were striking said Lessando Gontijo who led the research project while a doctoral student in the WSU Department of Entomology.
and roots said Betsy Beers an entomologist based at WSU's Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee and Gontijo's mentor and co-author on the paper.
The new species described in this revision Solanum agnoston discovered by Dr. Sandra Knapp Department of Life sciences The Natural history Museum UK comes from the inter Andean valleys of Southern Ecuador
The results were striking said Lessando Gontijo who led the research project while a doctoral student in the WSU Department of Entomology.
and roots said Betsy Beers an entomologist based at WSU's Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee and Gontijo's mentor and co-author on the paper.
The work was led by Dr Manash Chatterjee an Adjunct Faculty member of Botany and Plant science at NUI Galway and has been published in the journal BMC Plant Biology.
which Darwin's natural selection pressure is able to counter or enhance these intrinsic biases. The new U. gibba genome shows that having a bunch of noncoding DNA is not crucial for complex life.
Briana L. Pobiner of the National Museum of Natural history Smithsonian Institution; James S. Oliver of Illinois State Museum and Liverpool John Moores University;
Fritz Hertel of California State university and Richard Potts of the National Museum of Natural history Smithsonian Institution and National Museums of Kenya.
but these two innovative studies slated to publish in upcoming editions of the Journal of Herpetology
Previous research by Ken Schmidt of Texas Tech University and Chris Whelan of Illinois Natural history Survey documented that these carnivores can prey more easily on native bird eggs
University of Illinois professor of entomology May Berenbaum who led the study said that many organisms use a group of enzymes called cytochrome P450 monooxygenases to break down foreign substances such as pesticides
and plans for their conservation thanks largely to University of Birmingham plant scientist Nigel Maxted a long time champion for their protection and Khoury's master's degree adviser.
APEIR researchers including Professor Lei Fumin of the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are currently investigating the possible role of wild birds in transmission of H7n9 avian influenza.
Beyond a better understanding of fishes themselves the potential implications of this research are said wide reaching Edward Wiley curator of ichthyology at the University of Kansas. Our knowledge about one group can be extended to closely related species
Mimi Kessler a doctoral candidate in biology at the School of Life sciences has spent more than two years on Eurasian grasslands studying habitat use population genetics causes of mortality and migration routes of the Asian great bustards.
and Life sciences and the College of Engineering led a team of researchers in the project that could help feed a growing global population that is estimated to swell to 9 billion by 2050.
Additional resources were contributed by the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life sciences'Biodesign and Bioprocessing Research center the Shell Gamechanger Program and the U s. Department of energy Bioenergy Science Center along with the Division of Chemical sciences
and increased extinction risk as with another Chilean mammal that Briceã o is researching called Darwin's Fox--named for the scientific genius that first discovered it--with barely 500 now left in the world.
And soybeans are grown almost everywhere says Dr. Dominic Reisig an assistant professor of entomology at NC State
Researchers affiliated with the Fralin Life science Institute discovered that in addition to protecting Salmonella from heat-processing and sanitizers such as bleach biofilms preserve the bacteria in extremely dry conditions
Biofilms are an increasing problem in food processing plants serving as a potential source of contamination said Monica Ponder an assistant professor of Food Science and Technology in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences.
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#Chimpanzees use botanical skills to discover fruitfruit-eating animals are known to use their spatial memory to relocate fruit yet it is unclear how they manage to find fruit in the first place.
and use this botanical knowledge during their daily search for fruit. To investigate if chimpanzees know that
Instead inspection probability was predicted by a particular botanical feature--the level of synchrony in fruit production of the species of encountered trees.
They base their expectations of finding fruit on a combination of botanical knowledge founded on the success rates of fruit discovery
and abstract thinking in humans says Christophe Boesch director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology's Department of Primatology.
Doctoral student Megan Szyndler entomologist Catherine Loudon and chemist Robert Corn of UC Irvine and entomologists Kenneth Haynes and Michael Potter of the University of Kentucky collaborated on the new study.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen have examined whether the presence of an audience influences the behaviour and the testosterone changes of Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica) after a fight.
With support of the Alexander-Von-humboldt Society scientists working with Katharina Hirschenhauser from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen have been studying the influence of mixed-sex audiences on future social status after a fight.
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and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have discovered why bees copy each other when looking for nectar
but it's something that almost any animal could do in the right circumstances says Dr Elli Leadbeater from ZSL's Institute for Zoology.
and Food Research Initiative and is led by entomologist Diane Ullman of the University of California Davis
Our new process could help end our dependence on fossil fuels said Y. H. Percival Zhang an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering.
Additional resources were contributed by the Shell Gamechanger Program the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life sciences'Biodesign and Bioprocessing Research center and the U s. Department of energy Bioenergy Science Center along with the Division of Chemical sciences
Funding was provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural history's Powdermill Nature Reserve in Rector Pa. a Botany-In-Action Fellowship from the Phipps Botanical garden and Conservatory in Pittsburgh an Ivey Mcmanus Predoctoral Fellowship
unless better preventive actions are taken suggests new research by University of Arizona entomologists published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
and the environment explained Yves Carriã re a professor of entomology in the UA College of Agriculture
and Life sciences who led the study. Although Bt crops have helped to reduce insecticide sprays boost crop yields
if pests adapt rapidly said Bruce Tabashnik a co-author of the study and head of the UA department of entomology.
#Gene discovery may yield lettuce that will sprout in hot weathera team of researchers led by a University of California Davis plant scientist has identified a lettuce gene
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The National Natural science Foundation of China the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific research Program and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information science and Technology of China supported the work at Tsinghua.
The genomic data provides a valuable resource for botanists and breeders to comprehensively understand wheat's genetic diversity and evolutionary history.
Funded by a grant from the German Research Foundation the study is published in the March 26 online issue of the International Journal of Primatology.
in the College of Natural sciences but they look so different from the cattle you see in Spain and Portugal today.
study findsa female great tits'(Parus major) appearance is shown to signal healthy attributes in offspring in a paper in Biomed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology.
but to botanists both trees are part of the rosid superfamily which includes not only fruit crops like apples strawberries cherries
and AD&T research assistant professor Scott Egan discuss in a new study in the Journal of Economic Entomology the WSDA sent larvae samples to Wee Yee research entomologist at the USDA's Yakima Agricultural
In this effort when plant scientists searched the maize genome for clues as to why some plants can tolerate toxic aluminum in soil they found three copies of the same gene known to affect aluminum tolerance according to new USDA/Cornell-led research.
and help identify new crops that might be at risk says Dr. Hannah Burrack an assistant professor of entomology at NC State
Animal scientists Rod Johnson and Ryan Dilger have developed a model of the pig brain that they plan to use to answer important questions about human brain development.
Arun Pandey from the Department of Botany University of Delhi India and Susanne Renner from the Departments of Systematic Botany and Mycology University of Munich Germany decided to produce a checklist of the Cucurbitaceae of India that would bring up-to date the information
Co-author Professor Phil Stevenson from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the University of Greenwich's Natural resources Institute said:
Resolving this controversy is the main purpose of our work from a botanical standpoint. The physical model of sap exudation attributes the mechanism entirely to pressure
Barney is an assistant professor of plant pathology physiology and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences.
Pankaj Jaiswal Assistant professor of Botany and Plant pathology at Oregon State university Samuel Fox a Postdoctoral Associate in Jaiswal's laboratory and colleagues assembled transcriptomes of a noxious weed Brachypodium sylvaticum
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and based extensively on historical specimens from the American Museum of Natural history and nine other bee collections the study informs conservation efforts aimed at protecting native bee species
of which lacked preexisting capabilities in this area said John Ascher a research scientist in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology
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Historically we've seen symptoms similar to IBDS associated with viruses spread by large-scale infestations of parasitic mites says Dr. David Tarpy an associate professor of entomology at North carolina State university
Their findings can be found in the recent issue of the American Journal of Botany.
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Meanwhile Zanzibar's red colobus monkey--driven to coastal mangroves by deforestation--can struggle to find the freshwater it needs as Nowak reported in the American Journal of Primatology in 2008.
and her then postdoctoral research associate Laura Burkle were delighted to discover meticulous data on a plant-pollinator network recorded by Illinois naturalist Charles Robertson between 1887 and 1916.
So respected is he among entomologists that roughly 20 additional species have been named for him. Robertson's meticulous database is probably the oldest of its type for flower-visiting insects.
and when I came to college the Illinois Natural history Survey hired me to help collect insects around the state.
and deposited them in the Illinois Natural history Survey often still fuzzy with pollen. To assess how much usable pollen the bees had carried Burkle
conservation in Central africa the United nations educational scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL. Story Source:
and Fortaleza north of Lima where broad botanical evidence pointed to the extensive production processing
Researchers propose new theory on deep roots of human speechthe sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy to language Charles darwin wrote in The Descent of Man (1871)
Now researchers from MIT along with a scholar from the University of Tokyo say that Darwin was on the right path.
These kinds of adaptations of existing structures are common in natural history notes Robert Berwick a co-author of the paper who is a professor of computational linguistics in MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems in the Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science.
Indeed the researchers suggest that humans first had the ability to sing as Darwin conjectured
what Darwin was talking about very vaguely because we know more about language now. Miyagawa for his part asserts it is a viable idea in part
#Decoys could blunt spread of ash-killing beetlesas the emerald ash borer ravages North american ash trees threatening the trees'very survival a team of entomologists
Thomas C. Baker Distinguished Professor of Entomology at Penn State knew that the male EAB locates a mate by flying over an ash tree finding a female by identifying her green wings
Akhlesh's technique allows us to present males with different visual stimuli said Baker also a faculty member in the University's Huck Institutes of the Life sciences.
and published in the journal New Phytologist may help to resolve an ongoing controversy about the origins of methane in the tropics.
--and it is--then it could be the next major invasive ant species says Dr. Jules Silverman a professor of entomology at NC State
and fossil mammals before asking questions about'how'and'why'said co-author Jonathan Bloch associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural history on the UF campus. This gives us a new perspective of how major change can influence the history
and research associate at the American Museum of Natural history. Just like with a crime scene the new tools of DNA add important information
Andrew Macdougall and Kevin Mccann graduate student Gabriel Gellner and Roy Turkington a botany professor and member of the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British columbia.
Insects groom themselves incessantly so NC State entomologist Coby Schal and postdoctoral researchers Katalin Boroczky and Ayako Wada-Katsumata wanted to explore the functions of this behavior.
#Plant scientists demonstrate new means of boosting maize yieldsa team of plant geneticists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated successfully
and Southern America for ten years and they have published now their results in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
According to the entomologist hoverflies are present in practically all terrestrial ecosystems and they carry out very important biological functions such as pollination nutrient recycling
By giving a more detailed description of how the disease moves across the landscape the study opens the door to management efforts that might bring the disease under control says David Crowder a WSU entomologist and the paper's lead author.
Crowder working with fellow entomologist Jeb Owen other WSU colleagues and the State department of Health merged data from a variety of sources including West Nile infections in humans horses
National Basic Research Program and Natural science Foundation of China; Global Research Laboratory (GRL) Program from the Korean Ministry of Education Science and Technology;
In the nearby Natural sciences Building the research team used high-performance liquid chromatography to separate and quantify the amino acids that make up proteins.
The WCS findings were described in the December issue of the journal Integrative Zoology. Authors include Robert Wallace Guido Ayala and Maria Viscara of WCS's Greater Madidi-Tambopata Landscape Program.
and leading to increased'stress'levels as detected through hormone analysis. The research published January 22 in the International Journal of Primatology took place in the tropical rainforests of the Mexican state of Veracruz
and Dr Michael Ray both from the Department of Life sciences at Imperial College London who worked with researchers at Rothamsted Research and the University of the Highlands and Islands'Agronomy Institute (at Orkney College UHI).
blooming up to a month earlierusing the meticulous phenological records of two iconic American naturalists Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold scientists have demonstrated that native plants in the eastern
because naturalists past and present kept good records of what they observed in nature Temple avers.
The new study keyed on the detailed phenological records of 32 native plant species in Concord Mass. kept between 1852 and 1858 by Thoreau a pioneering naturalist best known as the author of Walden as well as later records.
Both Thoreau and Leopold were part of the 19th century naturalist movement in which individuals often kept meticulous daily journals recording the things they observed in nature notes Temple.
A report published January 11 in Remote Sensing by scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) states that as human development thrives
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Using DNA to tell us how populations changewhen Charles darwin first sketched how species evolved by natural selection he drew
since scientists have come to agree that Darwin's original drawing is given a bit simplistic that multiple species mix
The study was initiated by the Mathematics in the Plant Sciences Study Group an annual UK-based workshop organised by The University of Nottingham's Centre for Plant Integrative Biology which kick-starts collaborations between plant scientists and mathematicians.
of Ornithology. No previous attempts to understand the evolutionary history of this group have included genetic samples from nearly all the existing species. Berv began sequencing DNA samples
which males have multiple mates (polygyny Darwin first theorized that the increased pressure of sexual selection in polygynous birds spurred the development of color differences between the sexes.
The results are published in an article in the Journal of Economic Entomology. The nonsynthetic bed bug pesticides--which contain ingredients such as geraniol rosemary oil mint oil cinnamon oil peppermint oil eugenol clove oil lemongrass oil sodium lauryl sulfate
Monica Turner UW-Madison professor of zoology and study lead author Peter Blank a postdoctoral researcher in her lab hope the findings help drive decisions that benefit both birds
These findings highlight the need to evaluate the role of tobacco in the natural history of oral HPV-16 infection
Researchers from the Illinois Natural history Survey and the Morton Arboretum have been examining the potential role of herbivores on the invasion of nonnative plant species in diverse plant communities.
which they describe in an ad hoc study in the Journal of Medical Entomology. The authors hope that their paper will fill a knowledge gap
In a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences UW-Madison zoology professor Monica Turner
#Increasing nitrogen-fixing capacity of soybeansassistant professor Senthil Subramanian has become the first South dakota State university plant scientist to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award.
When the genome of the black Perigord truffle was mapped in 2010 we thought that the fungus had sufficient genes to create its flavour on its own junior professor Richard Splivallo from the Institute for Molecular Life sciences at the Goethe University explained.
An association between Tree Bumblebees and human habitation has previously been suspected from natural history observations. Along with an association with trees it is likely to stem from the Tree Bumblebee's habit of nesting in cavities above the ground
The review led by UC Davis animal scientist Alison Van Eenennaam examined nearly 30 years of livestock-feeding studies that represent more than 100 billion animals.
but predators may want to give some thought to wind according to a University of Wisconsin Madison zoologist's study
Scientists from the University of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew which manages the Millennium Seed Bank have shown how by using advanced mathematics they can boost the overall diversity of the seed bank by targeting a'hit list'of particular species
'John Dickie head of botanical information at the Millennium Seed Bank added:''For a number of years we have been keen to know just how much phylogenetic diversity the total outcome of millions of years of seed plant evolution we have in the vault.
By now this species of slug can be encountered almost worldwide explains Dr. Heike Reise curator at the malacology section of the Senckenberg Museum of Natural history in GÃ rlitz
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and Laura Martinez-Suz from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London set out to ask this question by using DNA-based taxonomy.
what the U s. Department of agriculture Forest Service claims to be the most destructive forest pest ever seen in North america said Michael Domingue postdoctoral fellow in entomology Penn State.
The researchers--including entomologists and engineers at Penn State the Hungarian Academy of Sciences the Forest Research Institute in Matrafured Hungary and the USDA--created the decoys using a bioreplication process with nanoscale fidelity.
Next the entomology researchers pinned the bioreplicated and 3d printed decoys as well as dead female emerald ash borers onto leaves in forests in Hungary to see which of them best attracted wild males.
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