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Now the researchers'ideas and discussions have been published in the appreciated Biological Conservation publication series. The researchers discussed the state of forests

or burned wood have disappeared in many areas says researcher Panu Halme from the Department of Biological and Environmental science at the University of Jyvã¤skylã¤.


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and has many similarities with transmissible gastroenteritis virus of swine said Meng who is a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical sciences and Pathobiology.


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These findings help us understand how differences in environmental conditions influence the evolution of genetic differentiation among plant populations says Professor Jon Ãren at the Evolutionary Biology Centre.


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because organic fertilizers were applied at about 50%of the normal application rate for zucchini after taking into account biological N fixation attributable to the vetch the scientists noted.


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Cucumber is a major vegetable crop consumed worldwide as well as a model system for sex determination and plant vascular biology.


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and plant biologist Dr Ben Williams from the University of Cambridge and is published in the journal elife.

whether a new mathematical model of evolution could be used to unpick the evolutionary pathways that led to the advanced photosynthesis. My main interest is in using tools from maths to make some concrete progress in a problem of real biological and social value

Encouragingly for the efforts to design super-efficient crops we found that several different pathways lead to the more efficient photosynthesis--so there are plenty of different recipes biologists could follow to develop to achieve this.

This is not only an interesting mathematical result it should help biological scientists to develop crops with significantly improved yields to feed the world.

The next step for the biologists is to recreate the natural evolution of the more advanced photosynthesis by mirroring the genetic and physiological changes in simple laboratory plants and eventually in rice.


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The study is the most comprehensive look at the historical role of terrestrial ecosystems in controlling atmospheric carbon explained first author Elena Shevliakova a senior climate modeler in Princeton's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Scott Saleska an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona who studies interactions between vegetation

Unless you really understand what the land-use processes are it's very hard to say what the system will do said as a whole Shevliakova who worked with corresponding author Stephen Pacala Princeton's Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology;

Sergey Malyshev a professional specialist in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton; GFDL physical scientists Ronald Stouffer and John Krasting;


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The Everglades at the southern tip of Florida--the remains of what was once a vast ecosystem--is interconnected with a large hydrologic system that really begins in Orlando with the northern Everglades says Patrick Bohlen a professor of biology at University of Central Florida.


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and will be published Oct 21 in the print version of the journal Current Biology. Using state-of-the-art genome sequencing


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What underlying biological mechanisms account for our seemingly instant almost unconscious ability to determine how attractive


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Led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural history the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

for Infection Biology and the Museum fuì r Naturkunde Berlin. Other work has suggested that the evolution of flight may have triggered parallel strengthening of the immune system of bats


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Biological sciences. Since the invention of the earliest light microscopes the classification and identification of pollen and spores has been a highly subjective venture for those who use these tiny particles to study vegetation in their field palynology.

However according to the lead author of the study Luke Mander a former postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Illinois professor of plant biology Surangi Punyasena the limitations imposed by these descriptive rather than numerical methods have kept researchers from classifying pollen

Developing better quantitative ways of describing biological shape and texture would allow many fields to establish more rigorous and consistent criteria for working with morphology


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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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One in three mouthfuls of our food depend on bee pollination said lead author Dr John Bryden from the School of Biological sciences at Royal Holloway.

Our research provides important insights to the biology of pollinators said co-author Professor Vincent Jansen.


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and activity of microorganisms in the soil which form complex biological communities involving plants and animals.


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Appearing in the journal Global Change Biology the study showed that tree growth slows down as forests age as expected.

Older forests contain surprises for climate science and ecosystem biology. We need to distinguish past disturbances from today's conditions.


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while the colony judiciously decides how to best allocate its foraging says James Nieh a professor of biology at UC San diego. Nieh worked with scientists at Yunnan Agricultural University in China to study the impact on foraging Asian honey bees of the monstrous


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asks James Clark the Blomquist Professor of environment and biology at Duke university. With colleagues from the Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole and the University of Georgia Clark is working on building a statistical model of how trees make this decision.

The first takeaway from that work now appearing online in the journal Global Change Biology is that there is a certain time of the year

when warming has the most impact Clark said. And that time would appear to be from Mid-february to Mid-march a few weeks before the buds would be expected to open.


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Eric Post a Penn State university professor of biology and Jeffrey Kerby a Penn State graduate student have linked the melting of Arctic sea ice with changes in the timing of plant growth on land

In addition to analyzing their own data Post and Kerby also used information from a 1970s study of caribou calving and calf survival at the same site by Danish biologists Henning Thing and Bjarne Clausen.


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Magda Carvajal Moreno from the Biology Institute at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and head of the research explained that this is the first time both conditions are related with the presence of aflatoxins the most frequent carcinogenic we ate daily she said.


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Masiello and another member of the group Rice biologist Jennifer Rudgers (now at the University of New mexico) were investigating the combined effects of adding biochar and nutrients to soils.


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Smooth surfaces that are resistant to corrosion are crucial for many of the present-day uses of cast metals ranging from bio-implants to automotive parts.

when processing metals destined for exposure to fluids such as those that will be used in bio-implants.


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and many experts believe it is just a matter of time before the disease appears full force in California said plant molecular biologist Abhaya Dandekar lead author on the study.


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R&d is needed especially for bio-based or other technologies able to efficiently capture and use more carbon dioxide than is already being captured


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which bioscience and biological techniques are being applied to help solve the global energy challenge. The partnership funded from the energy company BP includes researchers from the University of California Berkeley;


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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.


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Such perspectives could include a more diverse array of toxins for the control of pest populations possibly supplemented with a biological component such as pathogenic fungi or parasitic wasps.


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#X-ray science taps bug biology to design better materials and reduce pollutionbug spray citronella candles mosquito netting--most people will do anything they can to stay away from insects during the warmer months.

Researchers using the cutting-edge X-ray technology at the U s. Department of energy's Advanced Photon Source (APS) were able to take an inside look at several insects gathering results that go beyond learning about insect physiology and biology.

Scott Kirkton associate professor of biology at Union College observed that just before molting a growth process in

To conduct this research Tom Daniel professor of biology at the University of Washington and author of a study in Science that examined the cross bridge cycling in the muscles of moths had to seek out Thomas Irving.


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Otherwise a vital part is missing--the biology is a key ingredient. Professor Nick Ostle from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology a joint partner in the research said:


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Dr Struebig Lecturer in Biological Conservation from DICE explains:''Recent studies have emphasised similar numbers of species living in unlogged


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Jeffrey Silberman a professor of biological sciences isolated a new unicellular anaerobic eukaryote and worked with former graduate student Matt Brown and others in the lab of Andrew Roger at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova scotia Cananda on the genomics and description of this organism

Brown now a biology professor at Mississippi State university is the lead author of the study

which was published August 28 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biology The importance of this finding is that it helps us decipher how multicellularity evolved Silberman said.

which suids the ancient biological family of pigs belong. Consequently the genus name also means little pig in mock Latin.


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when it comes to influencing atmospheric carbon dioxide said second author Lars Hedin a Princeton professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and the Princeton Environmental Institute.


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Referred to as biological nitrification inhibition or BNI the mechanism markedly reduces the conversion of nitrogen applied to soil as fertilizer into nitrous oxide according to papers prepared for the 22nd International Grasslands Congress.


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The above story is provided based on materials by American Institute of Biological sciences. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.


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which Washington University in St louis biologist Joan Strassmann characterizes as a noxious and terrifying environment for the little things that live there.

The big question for the team all evolutionary biologists was why is farming evolutionarily stable among Dicty?


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and why fish swim in schools has fascinated long biologists looking for clues to understand the complexities of social behavior.

To be published online in the Sept. 12 issue of Current Biology the study found that two key components of schooling--the tendency to school

Alison Bell Ph d. an associate professor of animal biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said the linking of behaviors to different genomic regions in the same species

Hans Hofmann Ph d. a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin said the study also refutes the assertion that human behavior is too complex to understand.


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Dilcher an IU professor emeritus of geological sciences and biology in the College of Arts and Sciences discovered fossil flowers and fruits resembling those of magnolias


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However an unprecedented rate of projected temperature gain in the region over the next century 5 degrees Celsius will have them going upslope faster than ever before says Miles Silman professor of Biology at Wake Forest University.


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The work published Sept. 11 in the journal Biology Letters could help Indian farmers protect their crops from marauding elephants and save the lives of both people and animals.


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The Duke university-led study published online Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Global Change Biology is the first to show that a changing climate may have dual impacts on forests.


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#The research was conducted at the Department of Food safety and Infection Biology at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and at Section for Virology at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute.


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and our analysis methods will provide California policymakers with valuable tools to do so said Eric Masanet associate professor of mechanical engineering and of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern's Mccormick School of Engineering and Applied science.


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Other genes manufacture biological pumps that literally pump insecticides back out of the cuticle before they can enter the body.


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The author Ashley E. Larsen a Ph d. candidate in the Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology built on an earlier study published in PNAS by extending the temporal dimension of that analysis. That study found a strong positive


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The findings were published in Global Change Biology. Overgrazing accounts for about 80 percent of the vegetation loss in recent years researchers concluded and reduced precipitation


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In recent years Stanford biologists have found that coffee growers in Costa rica bolster bird biodiversity by leaving patches of their plantations as untouched rainforest.

The benefits that we might get are said huge Daniel Karp a graduate student in biology and lead author of the study.

Stanford biologists have been studying the intersection of nature and agriculture in Costa rica since the 1990s in part because of the vast amounts of land in that country dedicated to coffee production.

The work was authored co by Stanford biology Professors Gretchen Daily Paul Ehrlich and Elizabeth Hadly;

biology graduate student Chase Mendenhall; Nicolas Chaumont a software engineer at the Natural Capital Project; and Randi Figueroa Sandi a field assistant in Copal de Agua Buena in Costa rica.


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and poverty alleviation as vital to national security said Gretchen Daily a biology professor at Stanford


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We think the surfactant used to suspend them in biological media is stripped off when they pass through the cell membrane.


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The study appearing today in PLOS Biology describes a significant challenge for the project which is expected to produce an initial draft tree by the end of the year.


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Prof David S Richardson from UEA's school of Biological sciences said: Our research has shown that the females don't need to choose between males to produce the most healthy offspring.

The research was funded by Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Stockholm University the Schwartz'foundation Lars Hierta's foundation Knut & Alice


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The research team--which included Jesse Nippert associate professor of biology--spent four years studying centuries-old eastern red cedar trees or Juniperus virginiana in the Central Appalachian mountains of West virginia.

The principal investigator on the project was Richard Thomas professor of biology at West Virginia University.


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Sandeep Sharma and Trishna Dutta with colleagues from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute reveal their findings in articles in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B:

Biological sciences and Evolutionary Applications. Their articles say that forest corridors play an essential role in maintaining the flow of genes between tiger

Wildlife biologists are forced sometimes to move animals from one population to another. In places where breeding and migratory patterns have been disrupted


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The above story is provided based on materials by Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Note:


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or larviciding by adding chemicals or biological larvicides to standing water to kill larvae. Currently the use of long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets and indoor residual spraying of homes are used widely for malaria transmission control

Study co-author Steve Lindsay Professor in the School of Biological and Biomedical sciences at Durham University said:

This paper is a landmark publication demonstrating that in many places larval source management should be used as a supplementary weapon against malaria.


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PSW Research Wildlife Biologist Dr. Hartwell Welsh and Garth Hodgson examined two species of woodland salamanders across four stages of tree development at Mill Creek--a disturbed


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An international research group including Professor of Biology Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University has analysed which species will be able to grow in the climate expected in Greenland in 2100.


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and cow cartilage tissue was funded by medical research charity Arthritis Research UK the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council's (BBSRC) Diet and Health Research Industry Club (DRINC

The study involved researchers from UEA's schools of Biological sciences Pharmacy and Norwich Medical school along with the University of Oxford and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

Researchers from the School of Biological sciences and Norwich Medical school are now embarking on a small scale trial in osteoarthritis patients due to have knee replacement surgery to see

Ian Clark professor of musculoskeletal biology at UEA and the lead researcher said: The results from this study are very promising.


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No wonder biologist Himadri Pakrasi's team is excited by the project they are undertaking. If they succeed the chemical apparatus for nitrogen fixation will be miniaturized automated and relocated within the plant

in St louis. Engineering with biological partsalthough there is plenty of nitrogen in the atmosphere atmospheric nitrogen is not in a form plants can use.

and Biological sciences Research Council in the United kingdom. The teams will collaborate with one another and meet regularly to share progress


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We decided to exploit this interesting aspect of their biology using a novel combination of genetics field studies


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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


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The new research is published today 21 august in the journal Biology Letters. Honeyguides are intriguingly odd birds that are best-known for their unique mutually beneficial relationship with humans.


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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.


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--and now thanks to scientists from The University of Nottingham we know what caused the eggs in some breeds to turn this unusual Colour in a four-year research project just published in the journal PLOS ONE the team from the School of Biology has identified the genetic mutation


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The two ecotoxicologists cite deficits in the research which have prevented recognition of the consequences of biochemical pesticide effects on a species population or on the composition of biological communities.

and ecological changes in biological communities and ecosystems in regions where intensive farming is practiced. An important role is played by number of rare studies combining experimental fieldwork and research on sections of ecosystems as well as a broad selection of chemical and biological analyses.

An interdisciplinary approach can plausibly demonstrate connections between the effects of chemicals in humans and animals and the often indirect consequences on the population community and ecosystem levels.

The links to the effect of pesticides at every level of increasing biological complexity require more thorough research say KÃ hler and Triebskorn.


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These findings published online in this week's issue of Science Express pave the way for new initiatives supporting a bio-based economy.


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Authors include Jonathan Slaght of the Wildlife Conservation Society R. J. Guti rrez of the University of Minnesota and Sergei Surmach of the Institute of Biology and Soils (Russian Academy of Sciences.


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The research was led by Dr Diana Bell and Dr Kelly Edmunds from UEA's school of Biological sciences.


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The report in the journal Global Change Biology is one of the first to compare the agricultural projections generated by empirical models

For instance a paper posted Aug 7 by Global Change Biology --and includes second author and 2011 Princeton graduate Ryan Huynh--challenges predictions that higher global temperatures will result in the widespread extinction of cold-blooded forest creatures particularly lizards.


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This demonstrates the adverse effects of added sugars at human-relevant levels says University of Utah biology professor Wayne Potts the study's senior author He says previous studies using other tests


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author and U-M graduate student Andres Baeza who works in the laboratory of Mercedes Pascual in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

and characterized by an enhanced environmental malaria risk despite intensive mosquito control efforts said Pascual the Rosemary Grant Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at U-M and a Howard


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and a gene of Herceptin said Julia Y. Ljubimova MD Phd professor of neurosurgery and biomedical sciences and director of the Nanomedicine Research center.


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In a study published this week in the journal Biological Invasions U s. Forest Service entomologist Andrew Liebhold

and recover from EAB invasion with research on the insect ash trees'resistance to EAB and biological control.


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'Bill Fagan professor of biology at the University of Maryland finds hope in the team's discoveries.


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--and gradually spreading in the state said UC Davis entomology professor James Carey an international authority on fruit-fly invasion biology

and in any region worldwide said insect population biologist George Roderick the William Muriece Hoskins professor

and chair of the Division of Organisms and Environment at UC Berkeley and an expert on biological invasions who is affiliated not with the new study.

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.

Papadopoulos the study's lead author and an internationally renowned expert on fruit-fly demography and invasion biology was formerly a postdoctoral fellow

This unique dataset can provide many fundamental answers regarding many aspects of invasion biology and related global policy.

This'lag time'which is such a hallmark of invasion biology explains why California can be harboring very small established populations of these pests with only periodic captures that reveal their presence.

Invasion biology expert Roderick from UC Berkeley projects that the new study will have a sustaining impact on both science and policy.


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Researchers in the University of Arizona's department of ecology and evolutionary biology have found that

For example even though a piã on pine tree looks very different from a maple tree there are similar general ecological biological and physical principles that have resulted in a similar branching architecture across those species over the course of evolution.


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But research by a team of University of Maryland biologists shows the timber rattlesnake indirectly benefits humankind by keeping Lyme disease in check.

Habitat loss road kills and people killing them out of fear are the big issues said University of Maryland Associate Biology Prof.

and conservation biology will answer reporters'questions in the ESA press room after the session ends.


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which fruits are harvested said Orou Gaoue the study's lead author and assistant professor of ecology evolution and conservation biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

The above story is provided based on materials by National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBIOS.


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The findings come from a review of climate research by Noah Diffenbaugh an associate professor of environmental Earth system science and Chris Field a professor of biology and of environmental Earth system science and the director


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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.

The researchers who also include William A. Nelson associate professor of biology Queens University Canada currently on sabbatical at Penn State and Takehiko Yamanaka senior researcher National Institute for Agro-Environmental sciences Tsukuba

The model is developed to represent the biology of the insect said Nelson. It is developed realistic fully and parameterized independently of the field data.


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A pair of studies appearing online on August 1 in the journal Current Biology a Cell Press publication now identifies the genetic differences that underpin the differences in smell sensitivity and perception in different individuals.


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and even rarer in its native Sumatra where the deforestation of equatorial rainforests has wreaked havoc on its habitat said UCSB biology greenhouse manager Danica Taber.

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.

and pollination systems said Scott Hodges professor in the Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology.

This is a tremendous opportunity to show students and the general public about plant diversity and biology in general.


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#Mini-monsters of the forest floora University of Utah biologist has identified 33 new species of predatory ants in Central america and the Caribbean and named about a third of the tiny but monstrous-looking insects

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.


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Published in Biological Psychiatry the Pitt team found that in a rodent model second-generation deficiencies of omega-3s caused elevated states of anxiety

and Nelson Totah (A&s'12g) now a postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.


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This is the first study to show that tadpole tolerance to insecticides can be influenced by exposure to insecticides extremely early on in life--in this case as early as the embryonic stage said study principal investigator Rick Relyea Pitt professor of biological sciences within the Kenneth P

and pesticides and insecticides are hypothesized one cause said Jessica Hua lead author of the paper and a Phd candidate studying biological sciences in Relyea's laboratory.

--which also included Nathan Morehouse Pitt assistant professor of biological sciences--examined three potential factors that might allow larval wood frogs to have a high tolerance to the insecticide:


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#Virus to control potato mothnew biological insecticides have emerged in recent years which make use of so-called entomopathogenic viruses that are harmful to insects in particular the baculovirus.

Its use also requires expert knowledge and detailed monitoring of the moth's biological cycle ecology and behaviour

which could hold back its deployment for biological control.##but assured benefitsnevertheless such a biopesticide has many advantages

Using biological pesticides that rapidly degrade in the environment would reduce the risks of pollution.


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