Tyrone Hayes a biologist at the University of California Berkeley demonstrated a decade ago that atrazine could turn male frogs female publishing his results in prestigious journals such as Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy
or those seeking gluten-free products said study researcher Steven Newmaster an integrative biology professor and botanical director of the University of Guelph's Biodiversity Institute of Ontario.
Juergen Tautz a bee biologist in Germany who was involved not in the study does not believe that bees can direct their heat to specific points in a cell
Like my father biologists are curious about family ties but they go about it in a more systematic way.
In a 2006 PNAS paper Kalin Vetsigian Woese and Goldenfeld showed that microbial chimeras may also have an advantage over their biological counterparts.
Universal biology However DNA evidence is just one aspect of this five-year research project.
Goldenfeld calls this universal biology. It is an attempt to distill from our specific biochemistry the general physical laws that animate matter.
Goldenfeld believes that formulating the principles of universal biology may help answer one of the biggest questions of all.
The principles of universal biology should be applicable to all life irrespective of whether it is based carbon chemistry
and most other birds nips penis development in the bud according to the new research published today (June 6) in the journal Current Biology.
because birth defects in the external genitalia are among the most common congenital defects in humans said study researcher Martin Cohn a developmental biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Florida.
Evolutionary biologists have theorized that perhaps bird penises vanished because female birds preferred mates with smaller penises. In ducks and other species with phalluses males frequently force females to copulate.
Very little is known about wild yak biology such as how often the animals breed and how many young yaks survive to adulthood.
but they don't always use it said study lead author Alan Wilson a professor in the department of comparative biomedical sciences at The Royal Veterinary College in the United kingdom. oewhat was more remarkable was the maneuverability
In about a third of the global ocean a scarcity of iron limits the abundance of life so ash supplying this metal could spur booms in biological activity.
Bring in some relatives says Miguel Pedrono a Madagascar-based conservation biologist with The french agricultural research center CIRAD.
Visitors residents and conservationists are all hungry for successful new conservation initiatives Pedrono wrote in the March issue of the journal Biological Conservation.
and restore the unique biological riches of Madagascar. Follow Ouramazingplanetâ@OAPLANET Facebookâ and Google+.+Original article at Livescience's Ouramazingplanet i
In 2003 biologists brought back a Pyrenean ibex by making a clone of frozen tissues harvested from the last of these goats.
Working with Harvard biologist George Church they figured out a possible way to revive passenger pigeons.
Biologist David Ehrenfeld of Rutgers The State university of New jersey agrees de-extinction would impede conservation.
New biology The findings suggest that the flies are able to lurk for decades without causing a massive infestation.
The Peskiest Alien Mammals Though the team did not make direct observations of a mink attacking a woodpecker they collected several pieces of evidence to argue their case which they detailed earlier this month in the journal Biological Invasions.
Op-Ed) Thomas Whitham is a regents'professor in the Department of Biological sciences and the executive director of the Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research at Northern Arizona University.
what may be the most pressing biological challenge of our time has never been more urgent.
This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate-change scientists biologists geneticists modelers and engineers who are using
Similarly this approach requires the education of a new generation of scientists trained in diverse disciplines individuals who can collaborate on complex biological problems involving whole communities of organisms.
Those biological benefits explain in part why the Mediterranean diet high in olive oil has been linked with superior health.
Such specialists increasingly rely on a new family of bio-pesticides such as a chemical called Green Muscle that comes from a naturally occurring fungus that only attacks locusts.
In particular officials use these bio-pesticides in sensitive areas like nature reserves he said. The FAO warned Israel a couple days ahead of time that swarms were likely
The researchers report their findings today (Dec 12) in the journal Current Biology. Follow Stephanie Pappas on Twitter and Google+.
Among the 39040 genes found in the kiwifruit many were similar to distantly related species including potatoes and tomatoes from the order Solanes a biological classification one step up from oefamily.
Because the breeds analyzed including the longhorn have been connected closely to humans the results could shed light on human migration over the past 10000 years said study co-author Emily Jane Mctavish an evolutionary biology doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin
what the female's ability is said Bob Montgomerie biologist at Queen's university in Kingston Ontario who was involved not in the research.
While the family's actions might look playful biologists said such contact could be deadly for a manatee calf.
Separating the two could have severe consequences for the calf FWC manatee biologist Thomas Reinert said in a statement.
Although it's not clear why the behemoths were getting bigger over evolutionary time their big size may have made them more vulnerable to extinction said study co-author Catalina Pimiento a biology doctoral candidate at the University of Florida and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
whether the shark's body size affected its evolutionary success. Body size affects nearly every aspect of an organism's biology
because it accounts for all the characteristics of fairy circles including the presence of tall grass species Florida State university biologist Walter Tschinkel who was involved not in the study told Livescience.
Earlier this year University of Hamburg biologist Norbert Juergens claimed to have found evidence for a termite theory of fairy circles.
Michael Cramer a biologist at the University of Cape town in South africa and lead researcher of the current study which was published recently in the journal PLOS ONE also thinks the termite theory falls short.
An international team of molecular biologists studied the historical spread of Phytophthora infestans a funguslike organism that devastated potato crops and led to the famine in Ireland.
n Burbano a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Germany said in a statement.
The females were primarily looking at the lower portion of the males'display said study author Jessica Yorzinski an evolutionary biologist at Purdue University in Lafayette Ind.
The detailed findings of the new study were published online today (July 24) in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Indeed Jobs refused all contact with his biological father who tried in vain to reconnect with his famous son.
As Wisdom rewrites the record books she provides new insights into the remarkable biology of seabirds said Bruce Peterjohn head of the bird banding program at the U s. Geological Survey in the statement.
or as my marine biologist friend says fish breed like rabbits. The Mozambique no-take zones are managed by the community fisheries associations
and the long-term biological and social outcomes will be an ongoing story. But for now the science-driven work with farming
and fishing communities in one of the poorest regions in the world is showing positive biological and social impacts.
That's when biologists headed out with flashlights to spot the frog's eyes and scooped up the silver-dollar-size suitors.
We don't really understand the biology of these compounds and how they interact with the amphibians Smalling said.
The findings appear today (Jan 17) in the journal Current Biology. The amazing thing is this change in strategy for the different eggs Lovell said.
what are some of the physiological mechanisms that allow the old trees to stay alive Richard Thomas a biology researcher at the University of West virginia told Livescience.
Biologists briefly brought the extinct Pyrenean ibex back to life in 2003 by creating a clone from a frozen tissue sample harvested before the goat's entire population vanished in 2000.
Other species disappeared before scientists had a chance to study their remarkable biological abilities like the gastric brooding frog which vanished from Australia in the mid-1980s likely due to timber harvesting and the chytrid fungus.
For researchers in the lab of Edward Theriot at The University of Texas at Austin diatoms (and their snot) are rich objects of biological research.
and powerful supercomputers are helping researchers better understand the biology evolution and dispersion of the diatom.
or the existence of certain sequences at all tells us a lot about the biology of these organisms.
When people think of DNA they usually visualize the elegant oetwisted ladder shape seen in everything from advertising logos to Biology textbooks.
Led by scientists at the South China Agricultural Universityâ the researchers have submitted their work to the journal Biology of Reproduction.
I study phenology the timing of biological events she says. I would love to be able to focus solely on the phenology of plants instead of also worrying about the phenology of politics.
Biological (and geological and hydrological! life continues to happen all around us except now scientists are physically
Karen James of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory pointed out that the element of stress in this equation is significant.
  The talk was received warmly by the audience a mixture of biologists criminologists conservationists and other curious students.
Interested in how regional climate affects bison size biologist Joseph Craine of Kansas State university collected body mass data for more than 250000 bison across the country.
In my mind this is revolutionary in terms of plant biology. When I learned about how plants moved water it was a passive process driven by evaporation from the leaves.
But marine biologist Peter Girguis and his colleagues tried a morsel anyway. We just took off a little piece
A longstanding marine biology mantra holds that scholars should taste their species of study...or at least waste not want not.
Marine biologist Win Watson recalls annual Make a Dish from Your Animal dinners at the Woods Hole Oceanic Institution in Woods Hole Mass. during the 1970s and 1980s.
But tasting your research goes far beyond the field of marine biology. Scientists'natural curiosity has led them to put some strange things in their mouths.
Denise Dearing a biologist at the University of Utah studies how herbivores deal with toxins from plants such as creosote juniper and alpine avens a wildflower.
what sort of toxins or allergens might be present in poorly studied deep-living species said Brad Seibel a marine biologist at the University of Rhode island.
and this favors more fires said Ryan Kelly a plant biologist at the University of Illinois who examined the records.
The tiny creatures pump out up to 50 percent of the planet's oxygen said Edward Theriot a diatom expert and evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas at Austin who was involved not in the study.
This meant she could track the 25000-year-old ash layers around the South Pacific with a unique biologic marker.
Metastasizing native tree growth also physically alters the temperature chemistry and biology of the landscape.
The study is detailed today (April 4) in the journal Current Biology. Follow Stephanie Pappas on Twitterâ and Google+.
Not everything we wish to know in biology can be measured directly either because doing so is too costly or simply impossible.
In some cases scientists can look to biological signposts called biomarkers to infer information. Medical practitioners for example can use the presence of certain molecules in blood
Chris Remien a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis uses math to better understand how biological markers relate to the diets of animals
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesishometown: Ishpeming Mich. Field of study: Mathematical biology What inspired you to choose this field of study?
I have enjoyed always problem solving which is what initially drew me to mathematics. Over time I became more drawn to problems rooted in the real world in data.
Biology asks perhaps the biggest and most exciting questions of the real world those related to life.
It is an exciting time to be a quantitative person asking biological questions. What is the best piece of advice you ever received?
The phenomenon was discovered first in 1959 in mice by biologist Hilda Bruce and is known as the Bruce effect.
Alone his research team a group of physicists does not have a lot of biology experience. They are however talking with other departments to learn what the requirements would be for the listening device.
These biologists have good experience to do this so we hope that our study will bring some new information about the sounds that could be heard in trees Marmottant said.
Tales from a Conservation Biologist Elephants really really hate camera flashes. When conservation biologist Firoz Ahmed installs camera traps in Kaziranga National park in northeastern India's Assam state he
and his colleagues must return every day to check on the reinforced metal boxes. Often the cameras have been torn down and trampled.
and staff biologist for Aaranyak a nonprofit organization dedicated to wildlife conservation. He also studies turtles and other reptiles.
These findings complement biologist E. O. Wilson s writings on biophilia the attraction to life and lifelike processes.
I recently worked with three scientists who are studying the effects of warmer springs on snow cover biological systems
The new study published today (March 13) in The Journal of Experimental Biology shows that the baleen of bowhead whales
Everyone assumed baleen works like a sieve study author Alexander Werth a biologist at Hampden-Sydney College Va. told Livescience.
Jerry Karnas the Center for Biological Diversity's population campaign director in Miami is all too familiar with these political pitfalls particularly in addressing the impact of population growth on climate change.
and in the last 60 years half of the island's remaining forests have been cleared according to a 2007 study in the journal Biology Letters.
 The plight of Madagascar's lemurs is just one example of how a rising population of humans is contributing to the sixth-largest mass extinction in the history of the planet most biologists say.
What 11 Billion People Means for the Planet Every knowledgeable scientist is worried sick said Paul Ehrlich a researcher and president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford university.
and replacing them with big swathes of palm tree monocultures threatening the future existence of orangutans said Lee Hannah a senior fellow in climate change biology at Conservation International a global group devoted to saving endangered
What 11 Billion People Means for the Planet Water is the new oil said Bill Davies a plant biologist at the Sustainable agriculture Center at Lancaster University in England.
But about 7500 years ago in Central europe a genetic mutation popped up causing some people to produce lactase well into adulthood according to a 2009 study in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.
The First Space Tourists Of course not all space-based animal experiments have fundamental scientific value said Nathaniel Szewczyk a biologist at the University of Nottingham who has studied 24 generations of nematodes in space.
and some new places where they hadn't been said previously wildlife biologist Thomas Hughes of the National Wild Turkey Federation an organization that has reintroduced the animals into the wild.
In some places the growth of wild turkey populations has been so dramatic it has caused minor problems said Kelsey Sullivan a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in Bangor.
By the 1950s biologists had developed a special type of cannon-propelled net that allowed scientists to catch groups of wild turkeys more effectively to translocate them to new areas he added.
Famed Rutgers criminologist Ronald Clarke called on biologists and criminologists to work together to fight poaching
and can weigh more than 10 pounds 4. 6 kilograms lead author Jonathan Slaght a wildlife biologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society told Livescience.
and biological diversity the park spans nearly 1200 square miles on the western slope of the Sierra nevada range in central eastern California.
and wildlife said de la Rosa director of the La Selva Biological Station for the Organization for Tropical Field Studies in San pedro Costa rica.
or lachryphagous behavior may not be as rare as biologists had assumed. It remains uncertain what other kinds of nutrients might be in crocodilian tears in addition to the sodium in salt.
Mendl and his colleagues reported their findings today (July 1) in the journal Biology Letters. Follow Stephanie Pappas on Twitter and Google+.
and herbicides and human sources from wastewater treatment plant effluent and other sewage discharges study author Vicki Blazer a fish biologist with the USGS said in a statement.
U s. Geological Survey (USGS) biologist Jarred Barr discovered the duckling among a brood of downy avocet chicks on July 2.
and see how they're reacting said Alex Hartman a USGS wildlife biologist at the Western Ecological Research center in Dixon California who helps oversee the shorebird-monitoring project.
The biologists occasionally find eggs from other species such as terns in avocet nests Hartman said.
But this is the first time the USGS biologists have discovered a duck-avocet adoption. Hartman thinks it's likely the duckling was separated from its family after it hatched
in the United states. This could mark a new era of collaboration among users of the river's water one that benefits the environment said Karl Flessa a conservation biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson
so would help control their appetite said study author Timothy Barraclough a professor of evolutionary biology at Imperial College London.
The study provides a glimpse into how these new world monkeys learn from each other in the wild said the study's lead researcher Tina Gunhold a cognitive biologist at the University of Vienna.
The study was published online today (Sept. 2) in the journal Biology Letters. Follow Laura Geggel on Twitter@Laurageggel and Google+.
The study was published today (June 3) in the journal Biology Letters. Follow Tia Ghose on Twitter and Google+.
biologists many of whom hope that a polar vortex or two will help slow the northward march of invasive species
I really do think it helps with some of the major insect problems that we have Robert Venette a biologist with the U s. Forest Service in Minnesota told NPR. 6 Invasive Pests Threatened by Cold weather The Earth's average temperature warmed 1. 53
In Dewitt County Texas most people are convinced this is the elusive chupacabra said a reporter with KAVU News an ABC affiliate based in Victoria Texas though a wildlife biologist suggested it might be a dog or coyote.
and the chances for widespread crop application are slim Sean O'Donnell a professor of biology at Drexel University in Philadelphia who worked on the experiment said in a statement.
and is the son of Daniel Marenda a biology professor at Drexel. The father-son team first tested the method on fruit flies raised in small vials in their home.
and some even made it past 30000 feet (9000 m) the height of the peak of Mount everest the team reported Tuesday (Feb 4) in the journal Biology Letters.
professor of biological sciences at the University of Buffalo and one of the study's authors.
and many species are said quite passive Eileen Hebets a biology researcher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who studies amblypygids.
but are slow-moving and docile creatures said David Shiffman a shark biologist and doctoral student at the University of Miami.
and they've learned their survival skills from biologists who dress up in vaguely birdlike costumes.
The chicks are always in sight of actual adult whooping cranes Biologists just don't want the birds to be handled by people in street clothes Olsen told Live Science.
Olsen and other biologists think the birds'strange upbringing might have something to do with their tendency to abandon their eggs.
This has baffled left biologists for decades. Now with advances in data analysis Phyllis Coley and Thomas Kursar of the University of Utah may have finally found an explanation.
However so far biologists have found it hard to determine whether it applies to tropical forests because of the sheer size of the task.
Also some recent work has called out biologists for depending on the Red Queen hypothesis for many explanations.
Research by U s. Forest Service biologist Rob Venette suggests that temperatures below minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 29 degrees Celsius) will kill 79 percent of emerald ash
In addition to providing a food source greenery offers the added benefits of converting carbon dioxide exhaled by settlers into oxygen essential for maintaining a long-term bio-regenerative life support system.
and performing spectacular aerobatics biologist John Altringham told Live Science in a 2013 article. Related:
When you have these two conditions these two parameters that are met then the population can just explode said study co-author Emiliano Trucchi an evolutionary biologist at the University of Vienna in Austria.
Another harmful effect of back burning is the unintentional destruction of fire-sensitive biological communities.
Biologists banded Wisdom in 1956 as she incubated an egg and have been following her ever since.
despite the threats that albatross face at sea refuge biologist Pete Leary said in a statement.
Then while working in the Panamanian forest as a biologist Dudley saw monkeys eating ripe fruit
In 2004 four years after Dudley proposed his hypothesis she published a critique in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology.
or one every 20 minutes day and night study researcher Fiona Maisels a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society said in a statement.
That was probably the most heroic event in our beekeeping saga to date says evolutionary biologist Nancy Moran a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies symbiosis particularly among multicellular hosts and microbes.
but also love insects and insect biology she says. So this is a system that has both.
Snodgrassella alvi Gilliamella apical and Frischella perrara named after three biologists who made major contributions in honeybee biology Robert Snodgrass Martha Gilliam and Karl von Frisch.
The results accepted for publication in the journal Zoo Biology suggest that the forest melodies were more effective at reducing stress-induced habits such as hair-plucking
With new discoveries in astrophysics evolutionary biology molecular genetics geology and paleoanthropology a continuous story has emerged starting from the Big bang. Soon after that penultimate origin event
In 1967 biologist Lynn Margulis was the first to recognize that some prokaryotic organisms were able to merge together in a cooperative arrangement she named endosymbiosis that helped them survive the Snowball Earth crisis. We now understand that the mitochondria in animal cells
and lower rates of burning fat suggesting they were storing more fat stated the study published today (July 14) in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
and that's where the rub comes in said Todd Dawson a forest biologist at the University of California Berkeley who was involved not in the study.
Derek Hennen received funding from the Ohio Biological Survey. This article was published originally on The Conversation.
#Heart Cells Transformed Into'Biological Pacemaker'Electronic pacemakers can be lifesaving for people with abnormal
Now in experiments in pigs researchers have come up with a new method for making a biological pacemaker that might one day serve as an alternative to electronic ones the researchers said.
New biological pacemaker In healthy people a small region of the heart called the sinoatrial node fires the electrical impulses that determine heart rate.
In addition the hearts of pigs with the biological pacemaker were able to speed up during exercise
and slow down during rest much better than the hearts of pigs without the biological pacemaker.
and provide an encouraging indication that a biological pacemaker might eventually be ready for human translation Dr. Nikhil Munshi
In addition it could be problematic if the virus ends up in multiple places in the heart and forms more than one biological pacemaker.
because the plants couldn't adapt to post-impact climate swings researchers report today (Sept. 16) in the journal PLOS Biology.
for quality and adherence to international regulations such as the Convention on Biological Diversity. Like an apple a mushroom is the fruit of the fungus.
It s very important to better understand fungi as they underpin the terrestrial biology of Earth.
and Chris Kratt who create children's programs on biology. Liturgusa fossetti honors James Stephen Fossett an aviator and explorer who died in an air crash in 2007.
At first I thought I would find an evolutionary biologist who would partner with me through the whole project.
Stromatolites are part biologic and part geologic comprised of living cyanobacteria bound together with nonliving sediments like silt and sand.
but people unfortunately like their ivory tusks said the study's lead researcher George Wittemyer an assistant professor of fish wildlife and conservation biology at Colorado State university.
Alarming increases in illegal killing for ivory are driving African elephants rapidly into extinction said Peter Leimgruber a conservation biologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute who was involved not in the study.
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