Nerea Abrego-Antia and Isabel Salcedo-Larralde biologists in the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country have quantified recently this effect on fungi populations that live off dead
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This is partly due to the physical chemical properties of the l compounds and biological influences such as such as organism specific metabolism and life history.
The study is available online from the journal Fungal Biology. Identification of the closest known relatives of this fungus makes it possible to move forward with genetic work to examine the molecular toolbox this fungus uses to kill bats according to Lindner a research plant pathologist.
A marked decline in bat populations in the eastern United states was documented in a study published last month in PLOS One by Sybill Amelon a research biologist with the Forest Service in Columbus Mo
Dr Stefan Kepinski senior lecturer in the University of Leeds'Faculty of Biological sciences and lead author of a paper in the journal Current Biology that gets to the bottom of the mystery said:
Biologists artists and tropical fish aquarists have described illustrated or photographed color patterns in adult marine fishes for centuries
if the gestation period is said 12 months Tim Cole lead author and a biologist at the Woods Hole Laboratory of NOAA's Northeast Fisheries science Center (NEFSC).
The researchers further assumed a 12-month gestation period for North Atlantic right whales similar to that estimated for the closely-related southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) by the South african whale biologist Dr. Peter Best.
#Dangers to biological diversity from proliferation of global cashmere garment industrya new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Snow leopard Trust reveals a disturbing link between the cashmere trade and the decay
The study appears in the August issue of the journal Conservation Biology. Authors include: Joel Berger of WCS and University of Montana Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar of WCS Mongolia and Charudutt Mishra of the Snow leopard Trust.
The consequences are dramatic and negative for iconic species that governments have signed legislation to protect yet the wildlife is continually being squeezed into a no-win situation says lead author Joel Berger a biologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society and professor at University of Montana.
The researchers conducted their experiments at the Rocky mountain Biological Laboratory near Crested Butte Colorado. Located at 9500 feet the facility's subalpine meadows are too high for honeybees
The Rocky mountain Biological Laboratory is exacting about using non-destructive methodologies so that researchers don't have a negative impact on the bumblebee populations.
We reconstructed the fire history by picking charcoal fragments out of sediments preserved over thousands of years said University of Illinois doctoral student Ryan Kelly who led the study with Illinois plant biology professor Feng Sheng Hu.
Now University of Manchester scientists working in collaboration with scientists at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in Kolkata have proven a link between rice containing high levels of arsenic and chromosomal damage as measured by micronuclei*in urothelial cells
what it means for the futurethe evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once asked whether the living world would be different
With the help of modern genetic technology and the resources of the International Rice Genebank which contains more than 112000 different types of rice evolutionary biologist Kenneth Olsen Phd associate professor of biology in Arts
His latest findings which take a close look at the genetics of hull color appear in the July 17 2013 online issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
In a series of articles in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology and other journals Olsen postdoctoral researcher Cindy Vigueira and their colleagues have shown that different mutations of the same genes underlie the loss of shattering and the straw
and the Verband Deutscher Zoodirektoren Association of German Zoo Directors the Dresden team led by biologists Dr. Raffael Ernst
Tanzania is regarded widely as the most important country in mainland Africa for biological diversity and unique species and contains the continent's highest mountain deepest lakes and large parts of two globally significant biodiversity hotspots the Eastern Afromontane and the Albertine Rift.
This study has global implications as many nations grapple with reconciling their development needs with biological conservation
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Now researchers in Mcgill University's Department of Chemical engineering are shedding light on the biological mechanisms by
#Boldly illuminating biologys dark matteris space really the final frontier or are the greatest mysteries closer to home?
The biological equivalent is microbial dark matter that pervasive yet practically invisible infrastructure of life on the planet
What we are now discovering are unexpected metabolic features that extend our understanding of biology and challenge established boundaries between the domains of life.
Asexual reproduction however is considerably more successful for mildew as plant biologists from the University of Zurich
Beat Keller and Thomas Wicker both plant biologists from the University of Zurich and their team have been analyzing the genetic material of wheat mildew varieties from Switzerland England
However rising temperatures threaten wild birds including the Missouri-native Acadian flycatcher by making snakes more active according to University of Missouri biologist John Faaborg.
and seek more baby birds for food said Faaborg professor of biological sciences in MU's College of Arts and Science.
and his colleagues published in the journal Global Change Biology. Survival of young indigo buntings (Passerina cyanea) also decreased during warmer years.
This discovery may help biologists better understand how cattle and other mammals evolved as well as help animal breeders
Matthew Wheeler a University of Illinois Professor of Animal Sciences and member of the Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering research theme at the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) worked with a team of five
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and Assistant professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Andrew Richardson however has found that forests across the globe are becoming more efficient than expected.
The researchers--led by Brett Sandercock professor of biology--discovered that wind turbines have little effect on greater prairie chickens
and then hide nests in tall prairie grass The scientists researched many different features of prairie chickens and their biology:
Virginia Winder assistant professor of biology at Benedictine college; Lance Mcnew 2010 doctoral graduate in biology and research wildlife biologist with the U s. Geological Survey at the Alaska Science Center;
Andrew Gregory 2011 doctoral graduate in biology and postdoctoral scholar at Northern Arizona University; and Lyla Hunt master's student in biology Riverside Calif. The Grassland Community Collaborative Oversight Committee of the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative oversaw the research project.
The project received funding from a variety of sources including the U s. Department of energy; the National Renewable Energy Laboratory;
the Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism; the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; and The Nature Conservancy.
In addition to the observation of the daily embryonic development in detail the primary research interest focused on the hatch dynamics60000 images of the hatching chickthe hatch itself is subject to biological variation.
#Plant molecular biologist are getting to the root of the matterworking to identify key genes in the root development of poplar trees three Michigan Technological University scientists have come up with a new model for how genes interact
Wei a molecular biologist also has extensive knowledge of computer science and he is adept at applying it to large biological data sets.
He took on the task of untangling the interactions of more than 61000 genes by searching for a high hierarchical regulator the boss gene.
Biology contributed to the study. Additional co-authors include researchers from Mcmaster University (Canada) the Russian Academy of Sciences and Bayer Cropscience (Germany.
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New research to be presented at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting on July 5 shows that maize roots which have fewer cortical cells in the outer layer of their roots are more efficient at accessing water and nutrients.
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A new study to be presented at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting in Valencia on the 3rd july shows that the efficiency of the mitochondria the power house of the cell is increased in fasted king penguin chicks.
Their biological adjustments increase survival of chicks which among birds have unrivalled an fasting endurance (up to 5 months).
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and how they lived says Cerling a distinguished professor of geology and geophysics and biology at the University of Utah.
Ted Turlings an author of the study and head of the Laboratory for Fundamental and Applied Research in Chemical Ecology Institute of Biology at the University of Neuchã¢tel Switzerland.
and elaborating on what children already know about different nutrition-related themes including dietary variety digestion food categories microscopic nutrients and nutrients as fuel for biological functions.
This has been demonstrated by a new synthesis carried out by two researchers at Aarhus University--Professor of Biology Jens-Christian Svenning and Assistant professor Brody Sandel.
because these conditions have known no plausible biological connection with aerial spraying the results related to these conditions are indeed likely to have occurred by chance.
Integrated mosquito management#a method to control mosquitoes through targeted interventions based on mosquito biology that includes surveillance of mosquito activity reducing breeding sites such as neglected swimming pools
According to co-author PSW wildlife biologist Dr. Kathryn Purcell exposure of wildlife to pesticides has been documented widely
According to co-author PSW wildlife biologist Dr. Kathryn Purcell exposure of wildlife to pesticides has been documented widely
or other crops said Julin Maloof professor of plant biology in the College of Biological sciences at the University of California Davis. Maloof is senior author on the study published June 24 in the journal Proceedings
New technology is giving biologists the unprecedented ability to look at all the genes in an organism not just a select handful.
Gene expression profiling combined with an understanding of the plants'biology allows researchers to understand how genes interact to create complex phenotypes said Neelima Sinha professor of plant biology at UC Davis
Joseph Craine research assistant professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State university examined how climate change during the next 50 years will affect grazing animals such as bison and cattle in the Great plains.
and sexes collected from 22 bison herds throughout the U s. The information came from herds owned by the university's Konza Prairie Biological Station;
The study is an offshoot of Craine's ecology research with the Konza Prairie Biological Station
Managed by the university's Division of Biology the Konza Prairie spans about 8600 acres.
and the University of California at Davis. Vegetables and fruits don't die the moment they are harvested said Rice biologist Janet Braam the lead researcher on a new study this week in Current Biology.
A new paper in Current Biology describes the genetically prescribed dance steps of the pollen tube
High school biology leaves off with this: In normal pollination sperm-carrying pollen grains land on the pistil's tip
In his lab at Brown University Mark Johnson associate professor of biology studies the true complexity of intercellular communications that conduct this process with exquisite precision.
Among the fundamental biology questions at play in the sex lives of flowers for example are how cells recognize each other know what to do
and former CSIS doctoral students Wei Liu now a postdoctoral fellow at IIASA in Laxenburg Austria Mao-Ning Tuanmu now a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Biological diversity in such aquatic environments can only be sustained by them because they ensure a regular exchange between surface and ground water thus functioning as an indicator of water quality.
The latest results show that the aim of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity to slow down the decline in the number of species by 2020 is jeopardized.
Seven months later the researchers collected samples of the animals'visceral and subcutaneous fat tissues to evaluate levels of two biological markers of inflammation.
and professor of biology at Saint joseph's University advises that it's best to investigate the plant that's choking your columbines
In the online journal elife a large international group of scientists led by investigators at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have traced the thousands of genes in a plant that are activated once ethylene a gas that acts as a plant
This study the first such comprehensive genomic analysis of ethylene's biological trigger may lead to powerful practical applications the researchers say.
For example Ecker invited the expertise of Carnegie mellon University computer scientist Ziv Bar-Joseph transcriptional expert Timothy Hughes from the University of Toronto as well as computational biologist Trey Ideker
Now we can see that by altering the expression of one protein ethylene produces cascading waves of gene activation that profoundly alters the biology of the plant.
) National Science Foundation Plant Systems Biology IGERT (DGE-0504645) The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Grant GBMF3034) Gates Millennium Scholarship National institutes of health (1ro1
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The biology of the soil changes with long-term no-till explains Shipitalo. By leaving residue cover you increase organic matter
and at certain intervals says Saran Twombly program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology which funded the research.
Quantifying uncertainties is an important step to build confidence in future yield forecasts produced by crop models said Basso with MSU's geological sciences department and Kellogg Biological Station.
but mystery does remain says Cerling a distinguished professor of geology and geophysics and biology.
The paper is published in the journal Conservation Biology. Aisyah Faruk Phd student at ZSL's Institute of Zoology says:
better-tasting chocolatethe freshly sequenced genome of the most commonly cultivated cacao plant in the world is revealed in the open access journal Genome Biology this week.
and Marty Matlock professor of biological and agricultural engineering in addition to Thoma--partnered with researchers at Michigan Technological University.
Grant Harris chief of biological sciences (Southwest region) U s. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Jessica Schnell recently graduated now at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Germany.
In a recent more technical publication in the journal Conservation Biology the same authors showed that a modified version of a metric called meta-population capacity has the right characteristics to assess the impact of fragmentation.
and neuroscience and director of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois. And finding that it's Egr with all that this gene is known to do in vertebrates provides another demonstration that some of the molecular mechanisms underlying behavioral plasticity
For specifics Dr. Zakri commended the Aichi Biodiversity Targets already established through the Convention on Biological Diversity
what age it was weaned said Katie Hinde professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard university and an affiliate scientist at the UC Davis Primate Center.
In research to be published in Current Biology Martin and colleagues studied tomatoes enriched in anthocyanin a natural pigment that confers high antioxidant capacity The purple GM tomatoes have already been found to prolong the lives of cancer-prone mice
#Serengeti road divides biologists: Will a road across the northern tier of Serengeti National park ruin it?
But Eivin Røskaft a biologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) who has worked with cooperative projects in the park for the last two decades with Tanzanian scientists says the coalition's reaction is emotional
His rebuttal and that of his Tanzanian colleagues will be published later this year in an article in Conservation Biology magazine.
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.
An international research team headed up by evolutionary biologists at the University of Zurich has identified now two genes responsible for the flowering of a tropical deciduous tree species Shorea beccariana.
n Burbano from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. For research to be published in elife a team of molecular biologists from Europe
and the US reconstructed the spread of the potato blight pathogen from dried plants. Although these were 170 to 120 years old they were found to have many intact pieces of DNA.
and the biology of other ruminant species. The Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) is a native of the high mountain steppes and semidesert areas of the Tibetan plateau.
The findings appear in the journal Global Change Biology. Most predictions that tropical cold-blooded animals especially forest lizards will be hard hit by climate change are based on global-scale measurements of environmental temperatures
which miss much of the fine-scale variation in temperature that individual animals experience on the ground said the article's lead author Michael Logan a Ph d. student in ecology and evolutionary biology.
or of snails on the tree of mollusks said Antonis Rokas Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological sciences at Vanderbilt University.
This significant work will certainly challenge the community of evolutionary biologists to rethink how best to reconstruct phylogeny said Michael F. Whiting program director of systematics
The researchers recently published their study in the journal Biological Control. They found that plantings of sweet alyssum attracted a host of spiders
The researchers state that the use of sweet alyssum for biological control can be integrated easily with standard orchard-management practices
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or of snails on the tree of mollusks said Antonis Rokas Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological sciences at Vanderbilt University.
This significant work will certainly challenge the community of evolutionary biologists to rethink how best to reconstruct phylogeny said Michael F. Whiting program director of systematics
The researchers recently published their study in the journal Biological Control. They found that plantings of sweet alyssum attracted a host of spiders
The researchers state that the use of sweet alyssum for biological control can be integrated easily with standard orchard-management practices
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and Plant science at NUI Galway and has been published in the journal BMC Plant Biology. Among oilseed crops sunflowers are one of the most important sources of edible vegetable oil for human consumption worldwide.
The research breakthrough was part of a collaborative project between Bench Bio (India) URGV Lab INRA (France) NUI Galway Plant and Agribiosciences Research Centre (Ireland) and Advanta
Wilfried Schwab head of Biotechnology of Natural Products at TUM who has spent many years researching the biological structure of this substance explains:
Arne Skerra from the TUM Chair of Biological Chemistry. In this process a molecule precursor binds to the Faeo enzyme (Fragaria x ananassa enone oxidoreductase) which converts it into the final product namely HDMF.
--and ended up understanding how Faeo produces the HDMF flavor compound explains Dr. Andr Schiefner from The chair of Biological Chemistry.
and trampling that disturbs biological soil crusts. The work was published today in the Journal of Applied Ecology by researchers from Oregon State university Augustana College and the U s. Geological Survey.
Cattle trampling also appeared to disturb biological soil crust that offers a second defensive barrier against cheatgrass and further speeds the invasion.
The study was directed by LANGEBIO Director and Professor Luis Herrera-Estrella and UB Professor of Biological sciences Victor Albert with contributions from scientists in the United states Mexico China Singapore Spain and Germany.
Now researchers report in the journal Genome Biology that they have sequenced the lotus genome and the results offer insight into the heart of some of its mysteries.
and so lacks a signature triplication of the genome seen in most other members of this family said University of Illinois plant biology
and Institute for Genomic Biology professor Ray Ming who led the analysis with Jane Shen-Miller a plant
and biology professor at the University of California at Los angeles (who germinated a 1300-year-old sacred lotus seed);
The researchers led by Ram Sasisekharan the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT also found that current flu vaccines might not offer protection against these strains.
and destroy pre-malignant cells before they can become cancer said lead author Lance D. Miller Ph d. associate professor of cancer biology at Wake Forest Baptist.
The study published online ahead of print last month in the journal Genome Biology. This approach is known as gene expression profiling
Thanks to molecular analyses biologists discovered that such crossing has already been carried out previously confirming the possibility of hybridizing the two subspecies.
Dave Goulson professor of biological science at the University of Sterling UK agrees: there haven't been nearly enough studies of all pesticides or interactions between them.
and certain vegetables--combined with anti-aging supplements--improved blood vessel function in a study presented at the American Heart Association's Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2013 Scientific Sessions.
Lincoln Park Zoo Reintroduction Biologist Allison Sacerdote-Velat Ph d. and Northern Illinois University Professor of Biological sciences Richard King have identified European buckthorn as a contributor to amphibian
While we've made a lot of progress in understanding the ecological consequences to animals that are exposed unintentionally to insecticides the evolutionary consequences are understood poorly said study principal investigator Rick Relyea Pitt professor of biological sciences and director of the University's Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology.
and fuel demandsnew discoveries of the way plants transport important substances across their biological membranes to resist toxic metals
That's the conclusion of 12 leading plant biologists from around the world whose laboratories recently discovered important properties of plant transport proteins that collectively could have a profound impact on global agriculture.
and aluminum said Julian Schroeder a professor of biology at UC San diego who brought together 11 other scientists from Australia Japan Mexico Taiwan the U s
and other laboratories around the world had previously been under the radar--known only to a small group of plant biologists
--but that by disseminating these findings widely the biologists hoped to educate policy makers and speed the eventual application of their discoveries to global agriculture.
and carbohydrates in their diets the biologists write in their paper. An additional billion people are malnourished
From their recent findings the plant biologists now understand how transport proteins control processes that allow roots to tolerate toxic aluminum.
Other recent transport protein developments described by the biologists have been shown to increase the storage of iron
and zinc deficiencies because their plant-based diets are not a sufficiently rich source of these essential elements the biologists write.
The biologists said crops could be made more efficient in using water through discoveries in plant transport proteins that regulate the stomatal pores in the epidermis of leaves where plants lose more than 90 percent of their water through transpiration.
A recent discovery of protein transporters that move sugar throughout the plant has been used to develop rice plants that confer pest resistance to crops the biologists said providing a novel way to simplify the engineering of crops with high yields and pest resistance
These recent developments in understanding the biology of plant transporters are leading to improved varieties less susceptible to adverse environments and for improving human health.
whether a proposed action is likely to jeopardize the listed species and issues a biological opinion.
Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical center have discovered the biological mechanism involved in this process which could point the way to potential therapies.
Biology and Proteomics. Now we know the molecular triggers for how it occurs. Noel's co-senior investigator on the project Joanne Chory professor and director of Salk's Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology laboratory says the team found the molecular wake-up call for burned forests.
More research is needed to understand exactly how the change in shape of the KAI2 protein activates a genetic pathway that regulates germination says Chory the Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical
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The BBSRC-funded scientists from Rothamsted Research the James Hutton Institute Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University Lancaster University and the University of Nottingham
. I am sure that we shall see a continuing resurgence of interest in root biology which findings such as this are sure to promote.
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