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and also the ability to zoom in on specific biological features such as pathways and individual proteins.

By having these different viewpoints it makes it easier to mine out the relevant biological information.


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which has evolved to serve a specific biological function has inspired an extremely useful and interesting technological design.


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whose populations tend to be regular around some average abundance based on food weather and other external factors says Matt Ayres a professor in the Department of Biological sciences at Dartmouth and senior author on the paper.


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Slewinski is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of senior author Robert Turgeon professor of plant biology in the College of Arts and Sciences.


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In a study published in the January 2013 issue of the journal Biological Conservation Barrett


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when they are need in of additional energy said Janet Donaldson assistant professor in Biological sciences Mississippi State university.


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Biologist Ramakrishna Wusirika and his team made their anticancer cocktail with blobs of rice stem-cells called calli


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Howlers are arboreal primates that is to say they spend their wholes lives in the trees said Dr Jacob Dunn from Cambridge's Department of Biological Anthropology who carried out the research.


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and research biologist David L. Peterson are communicating climate change science within the agency helping managers--in Alaska


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Kristin Powell a graduate student in the lab of Tiffany Knight associate professor of biology and director of the Environmental Studies Program in Arts & Sciences together with consulting ecologist Jon Chase think they've located one


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The Norwegian scientists with lead authors from the Centre for Conservation Biology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) wanted to know how climate

and particularly extreme weather events may also synchronize entire communities of species says lead author Brage Bremset Hansen from NTNU's Centre for Conservation Biology.


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but it is not until now that we understand how they released the calcium to control cell functions said Docampo who is a professor of cellular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

Other authors of the report include Guozhong Hwang assistant research scientist and Silvia N. J. Moreno professor of cellular biology both members of the CTEGD and Paula J


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That's based on new evidence published online on January 17 in Current Biology that mother quail know the patterning of their own eggs


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Focusing on 10 Midwest states Great lakes Bioenergy researchers from MSU and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used 20 years of data from MSU's Kellogg Biological Station


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Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have used genetic analysis to find that the natural forest corridors in India are essential to ensuring a future for these species. According to two studies recently published in two papers these corridors are successfully connecting populations of tigers

The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute plays a key role in the Smithsonian's global efforts to understand


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biology including how often they reproduce infant mortality rates and the role wolves may play on population dynamics.


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But there is a plausible biological explanation for the link: milk is rich in Vitamin d and this may boost brain power the evidence suggests.


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Biological sciences shows that the pollination effectiveness of honey bees in California almond orchards was greater in the presence of other bees.

A second study in the same system published in Global Change Biology found two other mechanisms by which pollinator diversity improved pollination service to almond.


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Professor Jun Wang Executive director of BGI said The availability of a reference genome for a species is extremely important in the deeper understanding of its biology and evolution.


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#Bugs reveal the richness of species on Earthan international team of researchers has carried out a survey of the biological diversity in a tropical rainforest.


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The new study describes researchers'use of molecular biological methods to design and assemble the viral genome completely in a test tube in a form that can be introduced easily


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Jonathan Pritchard Phd professor in the department of human genetics studies the nature of these human genetic variations by combining methods from evolutionary biology and statistics.


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Understanding how petals produce iridescence to attract pollinators is a major goal in plant biology. An estimated 35 per cent of global crop production depends on petal-mediated animal pollination

and also for other types of patterning in biology. The research was undertaken by The University of Nottingham University of Cambridge university of Manchester

The study was initiated by the Mathematics in the Plant Sciences Study Group an annual UK-based workshop organised by The University of Nottingham's Centre for Plant Integrative Biology which kick-starts collaborations between plant scientists and mathematicians.


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However a forest contributes more ecosystem services than timber production such as biological diversity carbon storage and berries.

and biological diversity) the study demonstrates that all six services were positively related to the number of tree species. Different trees contribute to different services.

On the other hand food for wildlife was associated positively with both berry production and biological diversity in ground vegetation.


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The native Carolina Willow is also starting to strangle portions of the St johns river. Biologists at the University of Central Florida recently completed a study that shows this slender tree once used by Native americans for medicinal purposes may be thriving because of water-management projects initiated in the 1950s.

The biologists confirmed the importance of water fluctuation using experimental ponds on UCF's main campus. Willow seedlings

when the biologists raised the water level and flooded the plants for several months. At the same time control plants just above the waterline grew over 3 feet tall.

Based on the conclusions of the study the UCF biologists are helping scientists at the water district develop new ways to reduce willow cover

former UCF biology student Luz M. Castro Morales and Ken Snyder of the St johns river Water Management District.


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In the research published online in Global Change Biology researchers analyzed 190 datasets to determine the relative impacts of climate


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Salinity plays role in insect grazingtwenty years ago biologists Kathy Boyer and Joy Zedler then researchers at San diego State university speculated that too many insects feeding on cordgrass in the marshes of San diego bay could endanger the grass

and Zedler left off SDSU biologist Jeremy Long is currently further exploring the dimensions of this relationship.

Compensating for consumptionthere's an idea in plant biology called the'compensatory continuum hypothesis 'whereby plants can compensate for grazing by growing more


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Molecular biological analyses of tissue samples always confront scientists with the same problem: how to retrieve the genome of a specific pathogen from a mixture of DNAS in a patient and its microbial cohabitants?


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We've produced an imaging system to evaluate the root systems of plants in field conditions said Alexander Bucksch a postdoctoral fellow in the Georgia Tech School of Biology and School of Interactive Computing.

In the lab you are just seeing part of the process of root growth said Bucksch who works in the group of Associate professor Joshua Weitz in the School of Biology and School of Physics at Georgia Tech.

and collaborated with leading plant root biologists from the Lynch group to study complex root structure under field conditions said Weitz.


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Self-reported and biological measures of tobacco exposure as well as oral sexual behavior were associated significantly with prevalent oral HPV-16 infection.


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We have built a very strong team of researchers studying fungal biology and plant pathology. This exciting discovery by Prof Steinberg's group provides a new potential route to disease control.


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#U s. releases 13th Report on Carcinogensfour substances have been added in the U s. Department of health and human services 13th Report on Carcinogens a science-based document that identifies chemical biological and physical agents that are considered cancer hazards for people living


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This gives us a way to link climate responses more closely to the biology than we were able to do previously.


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and it was shocking how few had ever been described said Noah Fierer an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at CU-Boulder and corresponding author of the study.

and Ecosystem Functioning Lab at CSU headed by biology Professor Diana Wall director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability and a corresponding author on the study.

Other co-authors from CSU are soil science Professor Eugene Kelly and biology doctoral student Ashley Shaw.


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In addition a portion of the project will enable Subramanian to reach out to high school biology teachers


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Lead author Liam Crowther from UEA's School of Biological sciences said: This research implies that the Tree Bumblebee's remarkable success is due in part to favouring a suite of resources different to those used by the bumblebee species that are already widespread in the UK.


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and CTFS-Forestgeo and ecosystem ecologist based at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. Many of the changes occurring in forests worldwide are attributable to human impacts on climate atmospheric chemistry land use


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biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment. The goats are likely to provide an effective sustainable and much more affordable way of mowing down the invasive grass


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Treestwo Kansas State university biologists are studying streams to prevent tallgrass prairies from turning into shrublands and forests.

By looking at 25 years of data on the Konza Prairie Biological Station Allison Veach doctoral student in biology Muncie Indiana

and Walter Dodds university distinguished professor of biology are researching grassland streams and the expansion of nearby woody vegetation such as trees and shrubs.

In their latest research the biologists studied 25 years of aerial photography on Konza and observed the expansion of trees and shrubs in riparian areas

The biologists plan to continue studying water quality and quantity issues at Konza. Konza is an 8600-acre tallgrass prairie ecological research site jointly owned by the university and The Nature Conservancy.


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Over the past 13 years USGS biologists--dressed in costumes to avoid having the birds imprint on people--have raised between five and 20 whooping crane chicks annually that have been released into the Eastern Migratory Flock said John French leader of the USGS whooping crane


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Instead of spraying fungicide we're using bees to deliver a biological control agent right to the flowers where it is needed.

The biological control agent contains spores of a parasitic fungus that prevents another fungus that causes the brown rot from colonising the flower.

With increasing availability of suitable biological control agents future application of the'flying doctors'technology is expected to become available for disease control in almonds grapes strawberry raspberry apple pear


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and those resulting from biological influences such as urban green spaces and adjacent forest and croplands


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and Institute for Genomic Biology professor Isaac Cann who led the new analysis with his colleagues animal sciences professor Roderick Mackie and M d./Ph d. student Dylan Dodd.


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He is working with molecular biologist Jai Rohila of the biology and microbiology department through a two-year project sponsored by the National Institute of Crop science in Suwaon South korea.


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The findings are published in the journal Conservation Biology. The research team constructed a new evolutionary tree of a major family of wild plant species taking the distance between species as a proxy for plant trait diversity.

it depends upon your biology ecology and location'said Professor Rich Grenyer of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment the coordinating author of the study.'


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This collaborative study was conducted by researchers from the National Institute for Basic Biology the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) and the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan.


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When they compared the tree ring data with these various biological indicators they found poor upwelling years correlated with drops in biological productivity.

It's interesting to see how influential climate is on biology and what a synchronizing force it is especially across marine and terrestrial systems said Black.

This research was funded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Oceanography Program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration's Fisheries and Environment Program.


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Dr Graham Askew from the University's School of Biomedical sciences filmed five Indian peacocks taking off using two high-speed video cameras to try to work out

These results therefore have broader ramifications for evolutionary biology's understanding of sexual selection. Dr Askew also looked at how much drag the train created during take off by mounting a detached train in a wind tunnel.


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Researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Pompeu Fabra University) and the National Centre for Genome Analysis (CNAG) also participated in the study.


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but the ecosystem function hasn't come back said ecologist Mark Bertness professor of biology at Brown and senior author of the study in the journal Biological Conservation.


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The results are publishing on September 16 in the open access journal PLOS Biology. Applying biomechanical formulae to a treasure trove of thousands of fossilized leaves of angiosperms--flowering plants excluding conifers--the team was able to reconstruct the ecology of a diverse plant community thriving during a 2. 2 million-year period


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and Evolution who is now a professor of biological sciences at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

That gene which biologists call a barcode gene allowed researchers to identify and measure the diversity of bacteria based on millions of DNA fragments produced from bacterial communities collected from the surfaces of leaves said Jessica Green a professor at both the UO and Santa fe Institute.

and conserve biological diversity and ecosystem function Kembel said. Ultimately we hope that understanding the factors that explain variation in bacterial abundances across host species will help us better manage biological diversity in forests and the health and function of forest ecosystems.

Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Oregon. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.


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According to Thomas C. Baker distinguished professor of biology Penn State the findings were possible only because of the multidisciplinary makeup of the team.


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and conservation there's an increasing awareness of the need to go beyond biology and ecology to incorporate insights from various other disciplines like social psychology and economics.


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Run by University of Helsinki biologists scientists and archaeologists together with the National Board of Antiquities the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute and the University of Bristol the multidisciplinary research project has studied the role


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therefore a biological pest control was achieved the use of chemicals ceased and agriculture on the region improved.

after a scan we found some in 2005 that could be potential biological control agents.

which reduced up to 90 percent of the golden nematode population in two years by combining biological control with other methods for an integrated management.

and to perform research focused on the generation of biological pesticides which is a very important issue for agriculture due to the increasing restriction on the use of chemical pesticides emphasizes the scientist at INECOL.


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If you have an area with lots of closely related species you won't have a lot of phylogenetic diversity said co-lead author Luke Frishkoff a biology doctoral student at Stanford.

The biologists counted almost 120000 birds hailing from nearly 500 species in three different types of habitats in Costa rica:


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Applying evolutionary biology has tremendous potential because it takes into account how unwanted pests or pathogens may adapt rapidly to our interventions

and vulnerable species less able to cope with new conditions says biologist Peter Søgaard Jørgensen one of the lead-authors and Phd from the Center for Macroecology Evolution and Climate at the University

and progress in all fields using evolutionary biology as a tool. Currently there is no such coordination says Scott P. Carroll lead-author and biologist at the University of California Davis and Director of the Institute for Contemporary Evolution.

He continues: A particular worry is unaddressed that the need for management of evolution that spans multiple sectors will lead to the spread of new infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance genes between natural human health and agricultural systems.

It is clear that we need to strengthen evolutionary biology linkages across nature conservation food production

and development of new medicines to replace old ones many innovative solutions based on applying evolutionary biology already exist.

By encouraging cost sharing local communities and governments play a crucial role in ensuring that everybody gains from the benefits of using evolutionary biology to realise the long-term goals of sustainable development such as increasing food security protecting biodiversity


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#Unusual host preference of a moth species could be useful for biological controla team of Iranian researchers from the Rice Research Institute of Iran have discovered that Gynnodomorpha permixtana a well-known moth species from Europe

The importance of this adaptation for biological control of problematic weeds in rice fields and the biology of the moth on new host plant have been described in the open access journal Nota Lepidopterologica.

and biology in Iran rather mysterious at that point and the recent discovery of arrowheads as its preferred host in the region brings even more peculiarity in the story.'


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Pitts is a research assistant professor of biological sciences and a key member of a research team at Vanderbilt University that is attempting to combat malaria

In the 1990's Dutch biologists put Limburger cheese in a wind tunnel with malaria mosquitoes and were surprised to find that females were drawn to the smell he said.


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Testing under quarantine is one of the crucial steps involved in biological control a rigorously tested method where an invasive species'natural enemies are used to regulate it.

and there would be said enormous benefits Arne Witt a biologist not associated with the Virginia Tech program who works with UK-based nonprofit CABI After a laborious process involving many agencies

and biological control is the most cost-effective strategy--let's embrace it. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Virginia Tech.


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and Victor Albert professor of biological sciences at the University at Buffalo are the principal authors of the study.


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Given their infrequent appearances aboveground it has never been clear to biologists why salamanders take time to climb vegetation.

and leaf hoppers that are not available on the ground said Grant Connette a biologist who helped carry out the study while a graduate student in the Division of Biological sciences at MU.

and Research Entomologist Mark Deyrup with the Archbold Biological Station in Florida identified each prey item to the lowest taxonomic level


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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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#Brown marmorated stink bug biology, management optionsthe brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an invasive herbivorous insect species that was introduced accidentally to the United states from Asia.

and biology its chemical ecology and the types of damage it does to various host plants.

along with a list of natural insect enemies that can potentially be used for biological control programs.

Ultimately classical biological control using parasitoids native to Asia and conservation biological control to enhance the effectiveness of introduced

and indigenous natural enemies may provide the most promising long-term solutions for landscape-level reduction of H. halys populations the authors wrote.

To return to an integrated approach to managing all pests in the crops affected by H. halys growers require a more sustainable strategy for chemical control that combines efficient use of insecticides with a better understanding of its biology and behavior according to the authors.


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which is part of Dr. Rob Dunn's Your Wild Life lab. Dunn is an associate professor of biological sciences at NC State

We know remarkably little about these camel crickets such as their biology or how they interact with other species Menninger says.


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Biological pest control pays offthe study showed that resistance to common insecticide pymetrozine varies considerably among the Finnish whitefly populations.

If biological pest control was used whitefly populations were more susceptible to insecticides whereas whiteflies from greenhouses treated with insecticides over the years showed initial signs of resistance development.


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There are basic laws of biophysics that we cannot evade said lead researcher Bojana Bajzelj from the University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering who authored the study with colleagues from Cambridge's departments of Geography and Plant sciences as well as the University of Aberdeen's Institute of Biological


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The researchers Dennis Evangelista now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North carolina Chapel hill and Robert Dudley UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology found that even ungainly day-old baby birds successfully use their flapping wings

The researchers'study appeared Aug 27 in the online journal Biology Letters published by the Royal Society.


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Biology at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard professor at Uppsala University and Co-Director of Science for Life Laboratory.


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but it is also contains a vast range of biological diversity. The forest is a crucial habitat that is home to more than half of Brazil's threatened animal species. At the moment outside of protected areas nearly 90 per cent of the Atlantic Forest has less than 30 per cent of forest cover remaining.


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As part of the process Rice organic chemist K c. Nicolaou and structural biologist Yousif Shamoo and their colleagues created

so the only way we can make it available to study by biologists for its potential in medicine is to synthesize it in the laboratory.

Three was to use the technology we've developed to make analogs of it in the hope that we could find something simpler and yet better in terms of its biological and pharmacological properties.

The lab turned synthetic samples over to biologist Shamoo and his group for testing against a number of bacterial strains and comparison with natural viridicatumtoxin B. This was very exciting for us said Nicolaou who moved his lab from the Scripps Research Institute

In order to investigate the biological properties of our synthesized compounds we turned to the Shamoo laboratory for its expertise in the area of antibiotics and drug-resistant bacteria.

The biologists reported that the synthetic version performed as well as the natural and analogs lacking a hydroxyl group were even more effective against the same Gram-positive bacteria.

The interface between chemistry and biology is the key to success in discovering drugs. Co-authors of the JACS paper are graduate students Christopher Hale Lizanne Nilewski and Kathryn Beabout and postdoctoral fellows Christian Nilewski Heraklidia Ioannidou and Abdelatif El Marrouni all of Rice


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but it plays a heavy role in setting up some of the most fundamental symbiotic relationships in biology.

when fairly strong stimuli are applied to the entire growing root says Anã who just published a review of touch in the interaction between plants and microbes in the journal Current Opinion in Plant Biology.

Biologists believe this ubiquitous mechanism began about 450 million years ago when plants first moved onto land.


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It's similar to a thermostat said Zhen-Ming Pei an associate professor of biology at Duke.


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and biology of a species it will allow them to predict how they react. The paper by Devore and Maerz was featured on the cover of the July issue of Ecology.


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A comparison of herbivore response to urban and global warming is published in the journal Global Change Biology.


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When you try to estimate something over the whole planet you have to make some simplifying assumptions said University of Illinois plant biology professor Evan Delucia who led the new analysis

which funded the research through the Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois. Estimates derived from satellite images of vegetation


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or the stem cells of the plant said Paula Mcsteen associate professor in the Division of Biological sciences and a researcher in the Bond Life sciences Center at MU.


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and genetic adaptation and establishes a framework for investigating the biological mechanisms behind disease resistance


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but only now can scientists explain the complex biology behind their taste for sugar. Their discovery required an international team of scientists fieldwork in the California mountains and at Harvard university's Concord Field Station plus collaborations from Harvard labs on both sides of the Charles river.

A doctoral student in organismic and evolutionary biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology she is a member of the lab of Scott Edwards Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology.


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Wittemyer is lead author of the new report and a professor in the Department of Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology at CSU's Warner College of Natural resources.


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I'm interested in how rainforest hunter-gatherers have adapted to their very challenging environments said George H. Perry assistant professor of anthropology and biology Penn State.


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Led by Professor Brendan Mackey Director of the Climate Change Response Program at Griffith University in Queensland Australia the authors are experts in forest ecology conservation biology international policy


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It is controlled currently by a combination of insecticides baited traps biological control and releasing sterilised insects to produce nonviable matings known as the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT).

Lead researcher Dr Philip Leftwich from UEAÂ##s school of Biological sciences and Oxitec said: â#oethe Mediterranean fruit fly infests more than 300 types of cultivated and wild fruits vegetables and nuts.


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The research published today in the journal Global Change Biology shows that wood decay rates in the southern UK are reduced by around one quarter due to fragmentation.

Wood decay and the recycling of other biological matter like leaf litter is driven by fungi


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