Biology QUT researchers found UV exposure significantly depleted folate levels. Professor Michael Kimlin and Dr David Borradale from QUT's Aussun Research Lab said the study of 45 young healthy women in Brisbane aged 18 to 47 showed high rates
what's for breakfast--at least for the red widow spider of Florida's scrub habitat according to a study by University of Missouri biologist James Carrel.
and Southeastern Florida is one of the oldest in North america said Carrel Curators Professor Emeritus in the MU Division of Biological sciences.
Since 1987 Carrel has been monitoring populations of this spider at the Archbold Biological Station which protects a 5193-acre Florida scrub preserve near Lake Placid Only twice in those 23 years--in March 1989
which often are larger and stronger than the spiders themselves fly just above the tops of scrub vegetation said Mark Deyrup senior research biologist for the Archbold Biological Station who co-authored the study.
Amy Groesbeck an SFU alumna SFU professors Anne Salomon an ecologist and Dana Lepofsky an archaeologist and Kirsten Rowell a University of Washington biologist are the authors.
This demonstrates that the high population growth rate of the invader is caused by the high abundance of deer says Susan Kalisz professor of evolutionary ecology in the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Biological sciences and principal investigator of the study.
The draft genome is described in the March 2014 issue of the journal Genetics and the journal Genome Biology.
and is an author on the GENETICS and Genome Biology articles. Modern genome sequencing methods make it relatively easy to read the individual letters in DNA but only in short fragments.
and Texas. The Waterfootprint is part of the Agroclimate system developed by Clyde Fraisse a UF associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering.
Waterfootprint developed primarily by Daniel Dourte a research associate in agricultural and biological engineering estimates water use in crop production across the U s. Waterfootprint looks at a farm in a specific year
and Oxana Uryasev a UF research associate in agricultural and biological engineering. The Waterfootprint tool can help not just growers
and other techniques a research team led by conservation biologists at the University of California Riverside has determined that bighorn sheep so named for their massive spiral horns became extinct on Tiburã n Island a large and mostly uninhabited island just
because conventional wisdom among wildlife biologists and the indigenous Seri people who long inhabited this coastal desert region was had that bighorn sheep not occupied Tiburã n Island before 1975
Is it a restoration or a biological invasion? The latter question also applies to most cases of rewilding and de-extinction efforts.
With extended biological baselines such as the knowledge that the Tiburã n bighorn sheep went extinct before it is possible to refine conservation targets he said.
Tim Mousseau a professor of biology and co-director of the Chernobyl and Fukushima Research Initiatives at the University of South carolina has done extensive research in the contaminated area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear facility
At its peak the fungus destroyed the entire malting barley crop in the Red river and Ohio river Valleys according to molecular biologist Yang Yen an Agricultural Experiment Station researcher and professor at South dakota State university.
By looking at how genes were expressed the molecular biologist narrowed the possibilities from thousands of genes to 608 then to 47 and eventually to three.
The main authors of the article are researchers Eduardo Mateos from the Department of Animal Biology of the University of Barcelona (UB) and Xavier Santos from the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources of the University
The article is signed also by experts Antoni Serra from the Department of Animal Biology of UB;
Teresa Saura and Ramon Vallejo from the Department of Plant Biology of UB and Santiago Sabatã from the Department of Ecology of UB and the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF.
Federal biologists wanted to reintroduce the plant to other locations but they weren't sure where it would be likely to thrive.
We had very little information about its biology that would allow us to predict where it might be said successful Parker.
Her team which included undergraduate students and greenhouse staff at UCSC as well as USFWS biologists propagated cuttings from the last remaining wild population studied the plant's tolerance for different soil conditions in greenhouse experiments
and salinity than biologists had expected. This really brought home to me the importance of experiments to help guide conservation Parker said.
For the field studies Bontrager and coauthor Kelsey Webster another UCSC undergraduate worked closely with coauthor Mark Elvin a U s. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist.
and almost as many federal biologists Parker said. Bontrager said the project is a good example of how government agencies
and Chris Kratt hosts and creators of Kratts'Creatures and Wild Kratts both of which provide children with entertaining and accurate programming on animal biology.
Their goal is to solve one of the most compelling mysteries in biology: how proteins perform the regulatory mechanisms in cells upon
The Rice team of biological physicist Josã Onuchic and postdoctoral researchers Biman Jana and Faruck Morcos published a new paper on the work this month for a special issue of the Royal Society
Ultimately understanding these machines will help researchers design drugs to treat diseases like cancer the focus of Rice's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics.
but to understand the full dynamics of these large proteins where a lot of the interesting biology takes place we have to supplement them with more information he said.
The research was supported by the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics the Welch Foundation the National Science Foundation
But in a first-of-its-kind study on wild green anole lizards biologists at the University of California Riverside have discovered that the link between muscle function
No one has looked ever at this before said Timothy Higham an assistant professor of biology and Foster's graduate adviser.
Foster and Higham's findings were published March 12 in The british biology journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B a journal from the same publisher that featured papers by Isaac newton and Charles darwin.
Linden is working closely with project co-investigators Professor R. Scott Summers of environmental engineering and Professor Alan Weimer chemical and biological engineering and a team of postdoctoral fellows professionals
Ian Tizard Donald Brightsmith) at Texas A&mâ##s College of Veterinary medicine & Biomedical sciences have completed the first-ever draft genome assembly for a wild bobwhite quail named Pattie-Marie
This work in the new area of plant systems biology integrating biology chemistry and engineering sets a new standard for understanding any complex biological feature in the future.
For example the systems biology approach could be applied in research to develop sweeter citrus fruit disease-resistant rice or drought-resistant trees.
But the study does offer important insights into the complexity of insect biology Seufferheld said.
In coming months team member Avery Cook Shinneman a biologist at the University of Washington plans to analyze sediments taken from the bottoms of Mongolian lakes.
Dr. Hartwell Welsh Jr. research wildlife biologist at the U s. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) helped conduct a study in Northwestern Calif. that examined how woodland salamander
The renowned evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson once said it is the little things that run the world Dr. Welsh said.
and evolutionary biology a co-author on the paper. Deer typically prefer to eat native woody plants
Virpi Lummaa Reader of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Sheffield added: We rarely get the opportunity to study how other species with a lifespan similar to humans grow old.
Preliminary ORNL analysis in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado shows the catalytic technology could be retrofitted into existing bio-alcohol refineries at various stages of ethanol purification.
Wusirika an associate professor of biological sciences first collected stamp sands near the village of Gay in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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a highly specialized species of tephritid fruit fly whose larvae actually feed on the seeds of the native Barberry was found to have a tenfold higher population density on its new host plant the Oregon grape reports Dr. Harald Auge a biologist at the UFZ.
Dung beetles recount the nature of the pastthe biologists behind the new research findings synthesized decades of studies on fossil beetles focusing on beetles associated with the dung of large animals in the past or with woodlands and trees.
and laboratory-based effort to determine the relationship between function and biological diversity of plant species in tropical forests.
This is a crucial question for scientists studying the biological importance of color in nature but measuring color is much more challenging than measuring other characteristics like size or weight.
More importantly color is involved in a wide range of biological phenomena. Flowers attract pollinators fruits attract seed-dispersing animals plants express stress responses
Color is one of the most conspicuous aspects of biological diversity and often carries adaptive significance explains Smith who is interested in understanding how
and fruit development plant nutrient deficiencies responses to heat and drought stress and other biological phenomena that result in visible color changes.
or botanicals have certain biological actions said Yanhong Liu a doctoral student who led the studies.
In a paper in the journal Global Change Biology BU biology Prof. Pamela Templer and her co-authors show that soil freezing due to diminishing snowpack damages the roots of sugar maple trees
Biological control methods can target psyllid populations in a field but it takes a while for them to be effective
Joining Zhang on the project are Dr. Hongbin Zhang Texas A&m professor of plant genomics and systems biology and director of the Laboratory for Plant Genomics and Molecular genetics;
By carefully analyzing eau de male goat researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on February 27 have identified now a novel citrus-scented ingredient that speaks directly to the females.
and that has the potential to make them much better biological control agents. The sterile insect technique or SIT has been used for decades
In this biological control method large numbers of sterile male insects are released to compete with wild males for the attention of invasive wild females.
and moths to create a biological pathway that made it possible for plants to produce the moths'sex pheromones.
Wake Forest biology professor Miles Silman and a team of researchers who are affiliated not with Duke energy used images taken from the drone to create a 3d model of the ash pond spill site.
and biology graduate student Max Messinger attached a camera to their unmanned aircraft and flew a grid-like pattern over the ash pond taking pictures at regular intervals.
With the continuing rise of resistance the research published in the journal Genome Biology is key as scientists say that this knowledge could help improve malaria control strategies.
The unusual arrangement of cells in a chicken's eye constitutes the first known biological occurrence of a potentially new state of matter known as disordered hyperuniformity according to researchers from Princeton university
That's never been seen in any system physical or biological. If you had asked me to recreate this arrangement before
The discovery of hyperuniformity in a biological system could mean that the state is more common than previously thought said Remi Dreyfus a researcher at the Pennsylvania-based Complex Assemblies of Soft Matter lab (COMPASS) co-run by the University of Pennsylvania
They will find this kind of hyperuniformity is more common in many physical and biological systems.
Cellulose is the most common biological material in the world so there is plenty of it he adds.
because for example with soybean once you've pressed the oil out it's fairly easy to convert it to diesel said Stephen P. Long a University of Illinois professor of plant biology and leader of the initiative.
and Biological sciences Research Council and The Gatsby Foundation will be published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B on 17 february.
which the seeds were harvested said Sarah Cohen an associate professor of biology at the Romberg Tiburon Center.
James Kellner assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University the paper's lead and corresponding author noticed what seemed like implausibly large canopy growth in LIDAR images collected by the Carnegie Airborne
Dr FÃ rst from the School of Biological sciences at Royal Holloway said: Wild and managed bees are in decline at national and global scales.
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Now researchers from the two organizations have identified a new strategy for controlling the disease using biological control agents derived from isolates from UK cherries and plums.
Controlled sets of cherries and plums--with and without the biological control agents added--were placed in conditions known to induce the onset of brown rot disease.
These questions have puzzled life scientists since ancient times. Now an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Padua in Italy propose a thought-provoking answer based on a famous mathematical formula that has been accepted as true for generations but never fully understood.
If you studied biology in high school or college odds are memorized you Kleiber's Law: metabolism equals mass to the three-quarter power.
This formula one of the few widely held tenets in biology shows that as living things get larger their metabolisms
Named after The swiss biologist Max Kleiber who formulated it in the 1930s the law fits observations on everything from animals'energy intake to the number of young they bear.
and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona who co-led the study with Andrew Rambaut a professor at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Edinburgh.
and Behavior at the University of Minnesota and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich the research team included U of M associate professors Eric Seabloom and Elizabeth Borer
Diets for most people around the world are becoming increasingly limited in biological and nutritional diversity.
We know next to nothing about this species'biology it's evolution or it's position within the Oak family.
and builds on a range of the university's previous collaborative projects which span its departments of Chemistry Biology Earth sciences and the Durham Business school.**
and Biological sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the EU is published in the journal Heredity. Researchers at The Roslin Institute worked on the study with colleagues from the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and Queen's university Belfast.
In the study researchers of biological and environmental science collaborated with researchers of multi-objective decision making from the field of information technology.
and in different contexts then perhaps model organisms--such as bees and mice--can provide insights into the biological basis of aggression in all animals including humans the researchers said.
and to biological pest control in the coffee fields. The aim was to find out whether and how intensified farming affects these services provided by the ecosystem.
The research offers new perspective on evolutionary biology microbiology and the production of natural gas and may shed light on climate change agriculture and human health.
Plant and microbial biology professor emeritus Bob B. Buchanan co-led the research and co-authored the paper.
Methanogens help convert the residual biological material to methane which other organisms convert to carbon dioxide--a product that can be used by plants.
and computational biology from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biochemistry at Virginia Tech.
Usha Loganathan a graduate student in the Department of Biological sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech also participated in the study.
This is the result of a five-year research project performed by evolution biologists microbiologists and computer scientists at Radboud University Nijmegen and published this week in the European Journal of Protistology.
and distribution over hosts involved investigating 484'18s rrna genes'the fragments of RNA responsible for protein synthesis.'Our most important discovery is that ciliates are extremely diverse'says evolution biologist Johannes Hackstein.'
Safety testing in biological control is important as the release of natural enemies may pose some type of environmental risk.
The results are important as the wasp is being used for ACP biological control in Florida Texas the Caribbean Central and South america and Mexico.
These types of studies continue to advance the safety of biological control for suppressing populations of invasive pests thereby greatly reducing reliance on pesticides for control said Hoddle a biological control specialist in the Department of Entomology.
According to Hoddle such results demonstrate that carefully selected natural enemies used in biological control programs for invasive pests can be very safe
and biological control programs don't want to be causing additional problems through releasing inappropriate agents for the control of invasive pests Safety tests like those conducted in this study greatly minimize these risks.
and to discover that the Pakistani wasp will be a good natural enemy to use in California for the biological control of ACP.
and Evolutionary Biology and led by UA's Laura LÃ pez-Hoffman is the first to examine how bat ecosystem services change over time.
Part of the study focused on the Legal Amazon where the team used economic and biological information combining species richness
As they formulate a new modern evolutionary synthesis in part with concepts that Darwin could not have known of evolutionary biologists continue to debate the importance of the environment and plasticity on evolutionary change and the origins of the diverse forms of life On earth today.
and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble Dr. Miquel Coll a structural biologist and his team analyzed the DNA binding mode used by various ARFS.
and microbial biology at North carolina State university and co-author of the study. We wanted to find out what controls savanna vegetation--essentially the density of trees within the savanna
The new results span 27 years of data collected in Argentina under the direction of Dee Boersma UW biology professor with the support of the Wildlife Conservation Society the UW the Office of Turismo in Argentina
The interdisciplinary effort involved evolutionary biology biomechanics and mechanical engineering. The research was funded in part by National Science Foundation grants.
and published the results in the current issue of Biology Letters. The gene which is responsible for leg
if current trends continue according to a study published today in the journal Global Change Biology.
Lee a UF agricultural and biological engineering professor used an algorithm to find immature citrus in photos taken under different light conditions
and most recently at Columbia University where he's now an associate professor of biological sciences and physics.
Sahin collaborated with Wyss Institute Core Faculty member L. Mahadevan Ph d. who is also the Lola England de Valpine professor of applied mathematics organismic and evolutionary biology and physics at the School of engineering and Applied sciences
Specifically he had characterized how moisture deforms materials including biological materials such as pinecones leaves and flowers as well as human-made materials such as a sheet of tissue paper lying in a dish of water.
He along with Katie Hinde in Harvardâ##s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology Abigail Carpenter K-State graduate student and John Clay with Dairy Records Management Systems collaborated on the study
and of reconstructing skull shapes in long-extinct ancestral species. Evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Dumont and mechanical engineer Ian Grosse at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with evolutionary biologist Liliana Dá
As the authors point out adaptive radiations that is the explosive evolution of species into new ecological niches have generated much of the biological diversity seen in the world today.
#Ancient forests stabilized Earthâ##s CO2 and climateuk researchers have identified a biological mechanism that could explain how the Earthâ##s atmospheric carbon dioxide
The study Changes in the regional abundance of hemlock associated with the invasion of hemlock woolly adelgid was published recently in the journal Biological Invasions.
Co-author Dr Darren Evans a conservation biologist at the University of Hull said This work could have been done by paying research assistants to travel the country and collect records
Unlike some other citizen science projects that use biological records submitted by members of the public for long-term monitoring the Conker Tree Science project set out to test two specific hypotheses over the course of a year.
Scientists from Brown University and the Marine Biological Laboratory have shown that the peak in forest greenness as captured by digital pictures does not necessarily correspond to direct measures of peak chlorophyll content in leaves
I was surprised to see all the different birds that are using these agricultural fields--especially during spring migration said Kelly Vanbeek a wildlife biologist at the Wisconsin Department of Natural resources who conducted the study while a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
what has been effectively autonomous biological control of coffee rust. A movement back toward more shaded systems with minimal application of agrochemicals might be an appropriate recommendation for coffee farmers in the region.
Vandermeer is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and at the School of Natural resources and Environment.
and the habitats that they utilize said Ray Semlitsch Curators'Professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Science at MU.
Semlitsch and fellow researcher Grant Connette a graduate student in the Division of Biological sciences chose to study a forest area in the southern Appalachian mountains that has the highest diversity of salamanders in the world.
Most conservation biologists study the pattern of change within a species--for example how they decline
Their research Life history as a predictor of salamander recovery rate from timber harvest in southern Appalachian forests U s a. was published in Conservation Biology.
Kellenberg worked with UM Associate professor Mark Hebblewhite from the Wildlife Biology Program and graduate students Joseph Ramler and Carolyn Sime.
The study featured in Conservation Biology provides a readily transferable method for conservation planners trying to anticipate how agriculture will be affected by such adaptations.
Functional proteins in human milk are essential for key biological functions such as immune system development explains Ruige Wu from the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology.
This week in the journal Molecular biology and Evolution Oddnã Sverrisdã ttir of the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University and colleagues have taken us a little closer to answering this question.
The researchers Gemma Baron Dr Nigel Raine and Professor Mark Brown from the School of Biological sciences at Royal Holloway worked with colonies of bumblebees in their laboratory and exposed half of them to the pesticide.
#Bigheaded fossil flies track major ecological revolutionsimon Fraser University's Bruce Archibald and Rolf Mathewes are part of a team of biologists including Christian Kehlmaier from Germany's Senkenberg
stronger cotton fiberan international collaboration with strong Aggie ties has figured out how to make a longer cotton fiber â#information that a Texas A&m University biologist believes could potentially have a multi-billion
Pepper a plant biologist at Texas A&m since 1995 acknowledges that the cotton plants developed in the project technically are modified genetically organisms (GMOS) a controversial subject.
#or interfere with expression of that gene Pepper said. â#oethis was pure basic science seeking to understand the biological function of a geneâ#Pepper said. â#oeand sure enough the phytochrome â#knock-downâ##plants had all these phenotypic
#Ants protect acacia plants against pathogensthe biological term symbiosis refers to what economists and politicians usually call a win-win situation:
or C. The findings published in Royal Society Journal Biology Letters are based on two premises:
The work out in Current Biology looked into the mechanism that allowed gregarious locusts to change their diet surprisingly fast--just a few hours after solitarious locusts are crowded they are eating toxic plants
and Biological sciences Research Council and is published in the journal Developmental Cell. It is the subject of pending patent applications
Corresponding author Dr Ari Sadanandom Associate Director of the Durham Centre for Crop Improvement Technology in Durham University's School of Biological and Biomedical sciences said the finding could be an important aid
#Walden Pond trees leafing out far earlier than in Thoreaus timeclimate-change studies by Boston University biologists show leaf-out times of trees and shrubs
The spring growing season is of increasing interest to biologists studying the effects of a warming climate
and member of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who led the research published in the Journal of Heredity.
The late Jeheskel Shoshani an evolutionary biologist and world-renowned elephant specialist was instrumental in this research.
The above story is provided based on materials by Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
#Life scientists, colleagues differentiate microbial good and evilto safely use bacteria in agriculture to help fertilize crops it is vital to understand the difference between harmful and healthy strains.
Yes UCLA life scientists and an international team of researchers report Jan 8 in the online journal PLOS ONE.
which have just been discovered in the last 12 years as plant-growth promoting bacteria are said not pathogenic the study's senior author Ann Hirsch a professor of molecular cell and developmental biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science.
For their study the UCLA life scientists performed a bioinformatics analysis of four symbiotic Burkholderia species all of
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