The study led by Christopher Neill director of the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is published this week in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. This entire journal issue
Shelby Riskin and Gillian Galford both of whom graduated from the Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental sciences;
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and characterize the key biological proteins responsible for iron transportation. That would give researchers targets to manipulate
David Bowne assistant professor of biology led the study to look at the amount of carbon dioxide being released from residential lawns
As you increase temperature Bowne explains you increase biological activity--be it microbial plant fungal or animal.
Said Jacob Phelps a Phd candidate in the Department of Biological sciences at the NUS Faculty of science
The results which were seen in stroke-prone rats were presented April 23 at the Experimental Biology 2013 meeting in Boston.
In the same way measures of optimism and pessimism can provide indicators for an understanding of animal welfare explains co-author Dr Elodie Briefer from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical sciences.
Dr Alan Mcelligott also from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical sciences said: The study shows that animal rescue centres such as Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats where we collected our data can provide a vital role in reversing long-term neglect once the animals receive excellent care.
#Grape intake may protect against metabolic syndrome-related organ damageconsuming grapes may help protect against organ damage associated with the progression of metabolic syndrome according to research presented Monday at the Experimental Biology conference in Boston.
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A team of scientists led by Richard Broughton associate professor of biology at the University of Oklahoma published two studies that dramatically increase understanding of fish evolution and their relationships.
Biological sciences and Medical sciences a baseline adherence to a Mediterranean diet (Mediet) is associated with a lower risk of hyperuricemia defined as a serum uric acid (SUA) concentration higher than 7mg/dl in men and higher than 6mg
recommends conservation strategiesan Arizona State university biologist and her team have found that the Asian subspecies of great bustard one of the heaviest birds capable of flight covers migratory routes of more than 2000 miles traveling to
and will be published in the next volume of the Journal of Avian Biology is the first of its kind to monitor the movement of this rarely studied subspecies through satellite telemetry
Mimi Kessler a doctoral candidate in biology at the School of Life sciences has spent more than two years on Eurasian grasslands studying habitat use population genetics causes of mortality and migration routes of the Asian great bustards.
The collars developed in part by an interdisciplinary team at UCSC including wildlife biologists and engineers transmit location data every four hours.
A University of Leeds-led team of virologists and structural biologists used X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy to decipher the three-dimensional shape of the nucleocapsid protein
Dr John Barr of the University of Leeds'Faculty of Biological sciences and co-leader of the study said:
Co-lead Dr Tom Edwards also from Leeds'Faculty of Biological sciences said: The shape of the nucleocapsid protein has shown us important details of how the individual proteins in these rings are interacting.
But that's not what we were looking for said Frederick Dooley a UW doctoral student in biology who led the research.
Crop yields nearly doubled said Peter Ward Dooley's doctoral adviser a UW professor of biology and of Earth and space sciences and an authority On earth's mass extinctions.
Ward and Suven Nair a UW biology undergraduate are coauthors of the PLOS ONE paper.
Studies of the human microbiome have become one of the hottest areas of biological research said Knight a scientist in the ongoing National institutes of health Human Microbiome Project that has sequenced thus far the microbial mosaic of 300 humans.
Y. H. Percival Zhang an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture
Support for the current research comes from the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech.
Said Jacob Phelps a Phd candidate in the Department of Biological sciences at the NUS Faculty of science
access journal BMC Biology. This beautiful'molecular fossil'has a remarkably slow mutation rate meaning that its mitochondrial genome has remained largely unchanged
The fact that moths ants and fruit flies are known now to self-medicate has profound implications for the ecology and evolution of animal hosts and their parasites according to Mark Hunter a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and at the School
Abnormally higher levels of ROS can cause neural stem cells to start differentiating Guan is a professor in the Molecular Medicine & Genetics division of the U-M Department of Internal medicine and in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology.
--whose full name is focal adhesion kinase family interacting protein of 200 kd--in cellular biology for more than a decade.
-M Department of Neurology research lab member Christine Bian and Yuan Zhu Ph d. an associate professor in Molecular Medicine & Genetics and Cell & Developmental Biology.
Technological solutions to these problems that employ the latest developments in materials science chemistry biology and electronics are capable of greatly enhancing the performance of these systems.
either crystalline or amorphous but these categories were probably more reflec tive of the limitations of imaging methods than the underlying structural organization of the cellulose says Jerome Fox lead author of the Nature Chemical Biology paper
If it could be scaled up Brown describes this as one of the most important discoveries in plant biology.
The journal Genome Biology has published the paper. We know a lot about how beetle infestations can devastate forests
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Its New england debut was spotted by two University of New hampshire plant biology graduate students; now researchers are keeping a close eye on the sea potato's progress to determine
in addition to Traggis co-authors were UNH professors of plant biology Arthur Mathieson and Christopher Neefus and Clinton Dawes of UNH's Jackson Estuarine Laboratory and the University of South Florida.
Dr Leadbetter is co-author of the study published this week in Current Biology and joins Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical sciences later this year.
Most worker bees visit thousands of flowers every day in their search for nectar to feed their queen's brood.
Humans have had far-reaching impacts on ecosystems said author Tyler Coverdale a researcher in the lab of lead author Mark Bertness chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Our new process could help end our dependence on fossil fuels said Y. H. Percival Zhang an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering.
Support for the current research comes from the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech.
and animals when found in moderate to high concentrations said Tia-Lynn Ashman principal investigator of the study and professor and associate chair in Pitt's Department of Biological sciences in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of arts and Sciences.
We hope the comprehensive understanding of cancer biology at the individual level will ultimately lead to better therapy choice for patients suffering from advanced cancer.
or allowing them to establish naturally on nonforested lands has a significant positive effect on the amount of carbon held in soils said Nave an assistant research scientist at the U-M Biological Station and in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
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and Environmental sciences'Institute of Plant Breeding Genetics and Genomics housed in the department of crop and soil sciences and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences'department of plant biology.
Historical records compiled by retired NDOW biologist Robert Mcquivey that included old newspaper articles pioneer journals dating as far back as 1849
and Biological sciences Research Council had previously found that the probiotic Lactobacillus johnsonsii when given to young chicks prevents the colonisation of C. perfringens.
#Cancer biologists find DNA-damaging toxins in common plant-based foodsin a laboratory study pairing food chemistry
and cancer biology scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center tested the potentially harmful effect of foods and flavorings on the DNA of cells.
This research is part of the Insect Pollinators Initiative joint-funded by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council Defra the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) the Scottish government and the Wellcome Trust under the auspices
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The study from the lab of SMU biologist Johannes H. Bauer Southern Methodist University Dallas found that fruit flies raised on diets of organic foods performed better on several tests for general health.
Bauer an assistant professor in SMU's Department of Biological sciences mentored Chhabra by helping guide and design her research experiments.
and Aegilops tauschii respectively throwing light on the biology of the world's primary staple crop
However the extremely large size and polyploid complexity of the wheat genome has to date been a substantial barrier for researchers to gain insight into its biology and evolution.
These achievements are the results of joint efforts led by the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) Chinese Academy of Sciences Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and BGI.
--if they recognize the variation they're looking for is the result of epigenetics they could use that to their advantage said Hollick also an investigator in Ohio State's centers for RNA Biology and Applied Plant sciences.
because despite its strong conservation in all plants it appears to have no discernible impact on the development of Arabidopsis a common model organism in plant biology.
It's a real Texas story an American story said Emily Jane Mctavish a doctoral student in the lab of biology professor David Hillis.
and sustainability of peach and other important tree species but also to enhance our understanding of the basic biology of trees the team wrote.
But the real fear was represented that they an expansion in the range of the invasive apple maggot fly known to biologists as Rhagoletis pomonella.
and accurately figuring out which one of the flies was in that tree says Jeffrey Feder professor of biological sciences
It is documented well that corn residues introduce a host of physical chemical and biological effects that negatively influence corn yields.
and Technology (ICTA) and involved researchers from the Department of Marine and Oceanographic Biology of the Institute of Marine Sciences of the CSIC from the UAB spin-off Inã dit Innovaciã SL in the UAB Research
Rising minimum temperatures may be the best way to predict how climate change will affect an ecosystem said Robert Warren assistant professor of biology at SUNY Buffalo State.
Global Change Biology published a study conducted by Warren with Ph d. candidate Lacy Chick of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
but without felling any trees said Ola Olsson a researcher at thedepartment of Biology Lund University.
This is one of the first examples in translational research using an edible plant as a delivery vehicle for a new approach to cholesterol said Judith Gasson a professor of medicine and biological chemistry director of UCLA
Researchers reporting on March 18 in Current Biology a Cell Press publication have evidence that puts the clock in cock-a-doodle-doo
Research published today in the journal Conservation Biology quantifies for the first time the area's catastrophic loss of tropical flooded grassland.
Research and a professor at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Essentially Dutch elm disease is caused by a fungus that prevents the normal distribution of nutrients in the tree by blocking the flow of sap said Alan Moses an Assistant professor with the University of Toronto's department of Cell & Systems Biology one of the authors of the study.
He publishes his discovery that baleen is a highly mobile material that tangles in flowing water to form the perfect net for trapping food particles at natural whale swimming speeds in The Journal of Experimental Biology.
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and Developmental Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences BGI-Shenzhen and University of Arizona have completed the genome sequencing of wild rice Oryza brachyantha.
The Genus oryza is an idea model system for studying plant comparative genomics evolutionary biology and functional biology.
Union College Biology Professor Steve Horton likens this mostly underground portion of fungi (the mushrooms that pop up are the reproductive structures) to a tiny biological chain of tubular cells.
Co-authors of the study with Tushingham at UC Davis include Jelmer W. Eerkens a professor of anthropology whose research centers on hunter-gatherers and Oliver Fiehn professor in the department of molecular and cellular biology and the genome center.
In these they are entire biological systems. In contrast the leaves of these new trees are protein domains
The complexities of the biological functions of molecules are understood still poorly he said. If we mix the world of molecular dynamics with the world of molecular evolution we can then determine what aspects of sequences are important for molecular dynamics
The root causes of sap exudation before the onset of the growing season which allow trees like maple to be tapped for sap in commercially exploitable quantities have been debated in the biology community for decades explains co-author John Stockie.
and grassland habitats in Oregon says Mitch Cruzan coauthor and Associate professor of Biology at Portland State university.
and evolutionary biology and a research scientist at the UA's Arizona Research Labs. This pushes back the time the last common Y chromosome ancestor lived by almost 70 percent.
Proteins are the workhorses of biology. Tens of thousands are produced each second in every living cell and each of these folds into a characteristic shape within moments of its creation.
And biologists then can graft a desirable cell-wall trait onto a new line of trees. We've phenotyped tens of thousands of samples so far Davis said.
and amino acids caught up in the infamous selfish segregation distorter (SD) saga have put on quite a soap opera for biologists
It also deepens biologists'understanding of an instance in which life violates a fundamental balance predicted by the father of genetics Gregor Mendel.
Mendel's first law is that different alleles of a gene will segregate said Robert Reeenan professor of biology and the study's senior author.
In the meantime he reflects it may not be entirely fair for biologists to label SD as selfish
So investigating the tactics of selfish genes is not merely the stuff of biological soap operas.
and gingers according to Caroline Strã mberg UW assistant professor of biology and lead author of an article in Nature Communications.
Data capture was supported by a National Science Foundation Biological Infrastructure grant#0956388. Additional support for this work was provided by Robert G. Goelet Chairman Emeritus of the Museum's Board of trustees.
and mangrove swamps as current--and possibly future--wildlife refuges Katarzyna Nowak a former postdoctoral researcher of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton compiled a list of 60 primates
Which is why biologist Tiffany Knight and her then postdoctoral research associate Laura Burkle were delighted to discover meticulous data on a plant-pollinator network recorded by Illinois naturalist Charles Robertson between 1887 and 1916.
Recollecting 26 spring-blooming flowers from Robertson's network Knight Phd professor of biology at Washington University
Robertson's astonishing legacya professor of biology and Greek at Blackburn College in Carlinville Illinois Charles Robertson collected flower-visiting insects near Carlinville between 1887 and 1916.
The 50 international researchers including Lawrence Harder professor in the Department of Biological sciences in the Faculty of science at the University of Calgary analysed data from 41 crop systems around the world including fruits seeds nuts
The research findings are reported online in the FASEB Journal (the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) by senior researcher Graca Almeida-Porada M D. Ph d. professor
and Blood Institute under award number NHL097623 and HL073737 and grant P20 RR-016464 from the Idea Network of Biological Research Excellence Program of the National Center for Research Resources.
Their work published in Biomed Central's open access journal Genome Biology shows that workers have a more active transcriptome than queens.
Researchers at Bristol's School of Biological sciences led by Professor Daniel Robert found that flowers also have their equivalent of a neon sign--patterns of electrical signals that can communicate information to the insect pollinator.
which are associated with the biological response to stress. Based on these observations the authors suggest that growing strategies for fruits
By virtue of being a direct product of biology the renewable starting materials are a familiar sight for the microbes responsible for biodegradation.
The study suggests that the answer to this question may have as much to do with the biological interactions that shape communities as with the effects of climate change itself.
The study's insights are based on a novel approach by Eric Post a Penn State university professor of biology who simulated climate change
which leaves are saved from predation because of alterations in its genes finds an study published in Biomed Central's open access journal BMC Plant Biology.
in addition to avoiding possible conflicts over scare resources said Marilyn Roossinck professor of plant pathology and environmental microbiology and biology.
Baker then learned that Lakhtakia was able to replicate certain biological materials such as fly eyes and butterfly wings.
In a presentation at this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Michigan State university plant biologist Carolyn Malmstrom said that
What makes forcepflies special is the fact that little is known about their biology and the immature stages remain a mystery to scientists.
and environmental microbiology and biology who has examined more than 7000 individual plants for viruses. But they don't have any of the symptoms that we usually see in crop plants with viruses.
To achieve the targeted cuts we would need a scenario where by the middle of the century the global economy is transitioning from net positive to net negative CO2 emissions said report co-author Chris Field a professor of biology and of environmental Earth
#Advance promises to expand biological control of crop pestsa new discovery promises to allow expanded use of a mainstay biological pest control method
For the first time Stanford biologists have been able to identify specific parent ants and their own children in wild ant colonies making it possible to study reproduction trends.
Deborah Gordon a biology professor at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment has been studying a particular population of harvester ant colonies in southeastern Arizona for 28 years meticulously recording
Wildlife biologists say pinyon-juniper woodlands are popular with scores of bird and mammal species ranging from black-chinned hummingbirds to black bears.
They all say that it's the worst explosion of this disease they've ever seen said Vandermeer a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and at SNRE.
If any antibiotic-resistant bacteria are part of a biological mix whether in a person an animal or in the environment the weak microbes will die
this process is known by biologists as selective pressure. So there is incentive to eliminate the resistance plasmid from bacteria in the environment as close to the source as possible.
and increased mortality that has continued for a decade after the drought The research is published on-line in Global Change Biology.
Culman in Sieg Snapp's lab at the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station decided to use other measurements of the labile fractions--including nitrogen mineralization
and nitrogen mineralization is they're based on actual biological activity says Culman. You take into account the soil microbes and environment for these tests.
It was a great way to learn anatomy in a nutshell said co-author Zachary Randall a UF biology graduate student
That's how University of Guelph integrative biologists might recast a line from an iconic folk tune for their new research paper warning about the perils of ecosystem breakdown.
The study reveals a new way to find out how sensitive biological systems are to changes in climate.
It's a big unexplored horizon both in agronomics and crop biology. I think that's why the trait is of such value.
The insect's recent invasion to the island of Guam has endangered the island's endemic cycad species. Local biologists introduced a voracious beetle predator to the island to eat the scale insects
what biologists call the hairs that can be found on many plant leaves and stems.
This particular plant-pest-predator relationship has drawn the attention of biologists in the Western Pacific Tropical Research center at the University of Guam
and Wildlife Service biologist Pete Leary who said the chick appears healthy. Wisdom was banded first in 1956
As Wisdom rewrites the record books she provides new insights into the remarkable biology of seabirds Peterjohn said.
#Scientists use Amazon Cloud to view molecular machinery in remarkable detailin this week's Nature Methods Salk researchers share a how-to secret for biologists:
The challenge for biologists is that the molecules they want to see are often only a few tens of nanometers in size.
To make PALM more practical for use in biomedical research the team wrote a computer script that allows any biologist to upload
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and species commented Robin Abell the Senior Freshwater Conservation Biologist at World Wildlife Fund. The Madeira river basin for example is threatened by oil exploration deforestation
The researchers including two Spanish biologists have been studying the forests of Central and Southern America for ten years and they have published now their results in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
and provide useful data for supporting conservation measures in those areas that are home to such high levels of biodiversity explains the biologist.
and they carry out very important biological functions such as pollination nutrient recycling and biological control of plagues as their larvae feed on other insects that are damaging to crops
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Co-lead author Dr Stephen Willis School of Biological and Biomedical sciences Durham University said: We found that young vultures travel much further than we ever imagined to find food sometimes moving more than 220 kilometres a day.
Individuals moved through up to five countries over a period of 200 days emphasising the need for conservation collaboration among countries to protect this species. In South africa the vultures avoided the national parks that have been established to conserve wildlife.
but is backed now by a review of hundreds of studies co-authored in Ecology Letters by Mark Bertness professor of biology at Brown who first formally proposed the hypothesis in 1994.
We're no longer in the casual earlier stages of ecology says biologist Mark Bertness. Nearly two decades later with so much evidence now assembled Bertness said ecologists should feel confident enough in the Stress Gradient Hypothesis to employ it as a rule of thumb.
and test its applications to conservation biology. The hypothesis suggests for example that marine ecosystem managers who want to help tropical fish should focus on sustaining foundational species in the ecosystem such as corals.
#Biologists use diag trees to help solve gypsy moth mysteryworking beneath the towering oaks and maples on the University of Michigan's central campus Diag undergraduate researchers and their faculty adviser helped explain an observation that had puzzled insect ecologists who study voracious leaf-munching gypsy moth caterpillars.
Biologists wondered whether the caterpillars shun sugar maples in part because their leaves are less nutritious than the leaves of other trees.
Biology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The amount of essential amino acids in oak leaves was 30-42 percent higher than the EAA content of maple leaves in the spring and summer.
Niewiadomski graduated from U-M with a bachelor's degree in biology in May 2010 and is now studying nutrition in a doctoral program at Cornell University.
and think like biologists and they help me get publication-quality data he said. For almost all of them it's the first time they've had this opportunity
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