This gene is critical in making the hind legs of workers distinct so they have the physical features necessary to carry pollen said Zachary Huang MSU entomologist.
Specifically the gene allows workers to develop a smooth spot on their hind legs that hosts their pollen baskets.
The gene also promotes the development of a pollen press a protrusion also found on hind legs that helps pack
In this species Ubx played a similar role in modifying hind legs because the gene is expressed more highly in hind legs compared to front and mid legs.
Besides honey bees which aren't native to North america there are more than 300 species of other bees in Michigan alone.
and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the deliberate molasses-slow animals in northeast Costa rica.
And the energy required is non-negligible for an animal that has restricted such a diet.
and other crud that resides in the plodding animal's thick fur. Among the fur fauna are small pyralid moths with a particular attachment to the sloth's near-weekly trip to poop on the ground.
When the sloth squats to do its business some female pyralid moths will emerge from the sloth fur to lay their eggs in the sloth's dung.
We are pleased to form partnership with Lal Teer Livestock to decode this important animal said Professor Jian Wang President of BGI BGI is dedicated to using genomics technology to benefit human beings
Some form or function helps an animal to perform better in its environment but it can be hard to demonstrate exactly what that form
#Fur and feathers keep animals warm by scattering lightin work that has major implications for improving the performance of building insulation scientists at the University of Namur in Belgium and the University of Hassan
I in Morocco have calculated that hairs that reflect infrared light may contribute significant insulating power to the exceptionally warm winter coats of polar bears and other animals.
The insulating power of the animals'coats made Simonis wonder why thermal insulation in buildings doesn't work as well.
and feathers keep animals warm primarily by trapping a layer of air that slows thermal conduction says Simonis.
To further explore the radiative heat loss the team created a simple computer model consisting of a hot and a cold thermostat that roughly simulated an animal's warm body and the outside colder environment.
The light scattering properties of animals'coats can also have dual purposes Simonis notes. With the right structure fur and feathers can generate efficient thermal insulation in the far infrared range
This is particularly useful to animals such as mammals and birds that live in snowy areas Simonis says as it provides them with both warmth and camouflage against the white snow.
while the majority of the animals were fed a diet high in fat. They were divided then into groups where all except a control group were fed a type of berry--lingonberry bilberry raspberry crowberry blackberry prune blackcurrant or aã§ai berry.
and levels of fat in the liver were also lower than those of the animals who received a high-fat diet without any berries.
but making these discoveries was a valuable contribution to understanding why some animals become so invasive.
Although seldom seen in the daytime these animals breathe using their wet skin and forage at night.
We're finding that population fluctuations depend on the animal's behavior like their ability to disperse following a major event like logging a forest
In the opinion of Dr Vanesa De Pietri of Flinders University in Australia it is a further impressive example that the South american avian fauna contains numerous relicts that were once much more widespread.
when numerous new animal species migrated from Asia to Europe during the so-called Grande Coupure around 34 million years ago.
These included tree-dwelling carnivorous mammals who may have posed a threat to hoatzin nestlings which are raised in open nests.
In Africa by contrast similar tree-dwelling carnivorous mammals are shown to have existed much later. Digestion specialist and climbing artistthe present-day Hoatzin exhibits a special mode of digestion.
These herbivores predigest their food in this crop before further processing in the stomach and intestines.
which enable the hatchlings to climb trees. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural history Museum.
although it would be required further trials of these two molecules with animal to verify its effectiveness in the treatment for allergy to peach.
and herbivorous insects and with them diversification of their insect predators including these bigheaded flies.
The ants return this favor by protecting the plants against herbivores. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena Germany have now found that ants also keep harmful leaf pathogens in check.
In return for room and board mutualistic Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus ants become bodyguards protecting their host against herbivores and competing plants.
Intriguingly the leaves of acacia colonized by parasitic ants showed more leaf damage from herbivores
The researchers are part of the Modelling Animal Decisions team at the University of Bristol which aims to understand mental mechanisms from an evolutionary perspective.
However Merck Animal health manufacturer of Zilmax voluntarily suspended sales of the product last September when major U s. meat packer Tyson announced it would stop buying cattle fed Zilmax due to an animal welfare concern
are trained the truckers to properly transport these animals? How long do they wait at the slaughter facility?
However Merck Animal health manufacturer of Zilmax voluntarily suspended sales of the product last September when major U s. meat packer Tyson announced it would stop buying cattle fed Zilmax due to an animal welfare concern
or muscle damage in these big heavily muscled animals. Regardless of beta-agonist use in feeding pigs Thomson said the swine industry went from having about a 250-lb. average out weight to a 300-lb. average out weight on market hogs.
and work in a particular management system to improve efficiency of animals and profitability then it is fine to use them he said.
if any airborne chemicals affect the animal's behaviour.''Working with Dr Donald Edmonds from Oxford university's Department of physics Professor Vollrath showed that webs like that of the garden cross spider also cause local distortions in Earth's electric field
animals fed a fiber-rich diet become less fat and are less likely to develop diabetes than animals fed a fiber-free diet.
Nevertheless the mechanism behind this effect has remained until now a mystery. The team headed by Gilles Mithieux CNRS researcher in the Nutrition et Cerveau unit (Inserm/Universitã Claude Bernard Lyon 1) wondered
They showed that the intestine of these animals used propionate as precursor to increase the production of glucose.
#And that is how the desert locust lost its memorythe desert locust (a type of grasshopper) much like Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde goes from being an innocuous solitary-living individual to become a voracious gregarious animal
Although gregarious animals later recover this capacity their diet is affected not because at this point the food taste is no longer an important deciding factor.
since food is a crucial survival tool and an adaptation to the animal's specific life story and ecology.
Although the new diet improved the survival chances of the animal in the swarm by increasing the range of food available
but already show the behaviors of gregarious animals). They used a protocol similar to the one in Pavlov's dog experiments (where a dog is conditioned to associate a bell with being fed) using vanilla (the locusts'favourite) and lemon odours.
although it took much longer to gregarious animals transiens locusts could not do it. In contrast all 3 stages gained without problems the positive/appetitive memories (to link the lemon odour to nutritious food.
On the other hand if the animals were trained first then crowded and only after tested crowding had no effect on (old) memories
This showed that during the locusts'initial period of gregarization/crowding (transiens form) the animals can not acquire new negative memories.
but they still did not explain how the gregarious animals changed their diet so fast.
To start the animals were taught to associate vanilla with hyoscyamine but this time while solitarious locusts learned to avoid vanilla--so gained the negative memory--neither transiens nor gregarious locusts could do it.
After training animals were divided into two groups--one half was kept in a cage the other half crowded
In fact while solitarious locusts acquire aversive memories in about 4 hours most probably through a taste-controlled mechanism gregarious animals take 24 hours to show a reaction
Simå es and colleagues'research shows for the first time how the same animal can adapt its learning
A robust animal it is now found on every continent with an estimated worldwide population of around 40 million.
With artificial insemination male breeding animals can produce more than one hundred thousand offspring. Infertility caused by a single gene This practice is fraught with risk however:
If the genetic make-up of any animal contains an unidentified defect this characteristic will be passed on to future generations.
Otherwise the animals are perfectly healthy and normal points out Dr. Hubert Pausch lead author of the study.
It is only in this case that the animals should be excluded from breeding. Routine genetic testing for all breeding bulls has been underway since August 2012.
Findings of interest for human medicineas part of their study the researchers compared the genome of 40 subfertile animals with 8000 breeding bulls with normal fertility levels.
They discovered that the genetic defect can be traced back to one Fleckvieh animal born in 1966.
and also the diseases that animals pass on. With this knowledge we can not only improve yield
and ensuring that they are passed not on to future animals. One example is a genetic defect
and African Vulture Technical Advisor with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and colleagues have discovered that vultures rather than aggregating where animals are most abundant as previously thought
and conditions where animals are most likely to die. For decades scientists have assumed that vultures would follow the largest food source available.
or roughly the size of the entire United kingdom. As one of the only obligate scavengers in the animal kingdom vultures are adapted specially to feed on dead animals or carcasses.
and other animals killed by lions or hyenas. You can imagine how difficult it is to protect a species that uses not just multiple parks
But protecting these critical scavengers which help to keep the African savannas clean and reduce the risk of rabies
and the dynamic techniques biologists utilize to ensure the survival of threatened animals. Often scientists study biodiversity at all levels--from genes to entire ecosystems.
Many times analyzing dangerous animals with a hands-on approach is risky so genetic samples and traces collected through hair samples fecal samples
This is bad news for the animals in that ecosystem upon which ravens prey. Common raven populations have increased more than 300 percent over the last 40 years in the western United states
That the bone represents the height of exotic food is underscored by the fact that this is thought to be the only giraffe bone ever recorded from an archaeological excavation in Roman Italy says Ellis. How part of the animal butchered came to be a kitchen scrap in a seemingly standard Pompeian restaurant not only speaks to long-distance trade in exotic
and wild animals but also something of the richness variety and range of a non-elite diet.
Of course, raising animals for meat is another matter, and if you're going to go there,
At airports such as Atlanta â¢s Hartsfield-Jackson International, officials have added the animals to their grounds crew as a low-cost way to cut down on weeds
the animals had eaten through nearly half of the high-flying weeds in the area. Since the airport has about 3
and other animals that might endanger airport activities, WXIA of Atlanta notes. Hartsfield-Jackson isn â¢t the only airport catching on to the idea of animals as lawnmowers.
Seattle and San francisco have tried similar methods in the past and officials at Chicago O â¢Hare are currently contemplating the use of goats to cut down on weeds.
deer and â on overseas U s. military bases â animals including goats and pigs. Strikes also happen at all altitudes;
along with conservation of habitat for plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act. Here's what Weikko Jaross
include mandates such as working with the seasons, no artificial ingredients, no antibiotics for animals, cage free birds and no GMO ingredients or hormones.
because farmers cram animals into a packed farm and give them unnecessary antibiotics to promote their growth.
and likely came from the food animals themselves, is troubling, and demands attention to how antibiotics are used in food-animal production today,
And last year though, the Food and Drug Administration recommended that farmers only administer antibiotics to sick animals to minimize the use of the drugs, reports CBS. One country at least,
and have quit giving their animals low-dose antibiotics. Scientists hope they won't be the only one. via TGEN News Photo:
Humanely-raised animals; using nose-to-tail: Weland works with Bev Eggleston, who sources his meats from small family farms In virginia Shenandoah valley.
He extra committed to raising animals humanely, Weland said. It makes a difference in the end product.
If you have a good animal and feed it well, it translated to a good dish.
Weland said using the whole animal is ecological because it means no waste. We split a carcass with Proof.
Within the park, you'll find a zoo, lakes, botanic gardens, ice-skating rinks, concert venues--and priceless views of the surrounding skyscrapers.
which has two museums, a zoo, and summer music festivals. The smaller but decorative Parc Laberint (Labyrinth Park) is an 18th-century maze of hedges, pavilions, ornamental railings,
Lincoln Park is another Chicago institution, with a lakefront theatre, a zoo, a bird sanctuary, and a lagoon with paddleboats.
The animal is distinctive because it creates a shiny silicon-based material that bonds together,
Unlocking these biological secrets--how an animal cools itself, such as using its body to absorb water in a hot,
The practice of modeling structures after those of nearby animals is a time-honored tradition with ancient roots,
and it's a wholesome meal full of nutrition for vegetarians and carnivores alike. Now there's yet another reason to order the extra large:
Anthocyanin has been shown to help fight cancer in animals. The BBC quoted John Innes'Prof Cathie Martin:
The study also tracked milk production because of concerns the LED lights could harm the animals by interfering, for example, with their feeding schedule.
The world's largest animal welfare group, PETA, gave scientists a challenge five years ago.
either sounds or chemicals to drive the animals away without harming them. According to The Scientist, The final version is due to be tested in France and Switzerland in 2013,
Human breast milk gives human babies unique immunological defenses that they can't get from other animal's milk.
Pheromones, those chemicals produced by animals and released into the environment, are used by moths for finding mates.
losses of flora, fauna and ocean's ecosystems will impact food supply and the livelihood of millions who depend on these resources.
I think, stems from our simultaneous obsession with pork and animal-centric cooking in general. Ramen perfectly encapsulates our hedonistic pleasure in eating--it's comforting
Bio-acoustics has been the study of the vocalization of animals, studying behavior, physiology, anatomy related to that.
so the sounds can be propagated in a way that helps promote the animal. Will you return to these locations to record how the soundscapes evolve?
This will help reveal the long term effects of radiation on animals as well as how radiation spreads in the forest as it transfers between animals and plants.
it is important to set a baseline of knowledge to see how it affects humans and animals in the long run,
I prefer that the animals I do eat lived in an at least somewhat healthful and respectful fashion,
which can disturb the animals. The concern is so great that the Royal Institute of British Architects is offering a course, in conjunction with the Bat Conservation Trust, on designing bat roosts.
Of course, there are native animals that are edible too (such as kangaroos, crocodiles and emus), but Weatherhead prefers to educate us on the wonders of Australias native flora world.
(which have been cloned common among animals to date). Moreover, all those cloning efforts crucially relied on the use of egg cells
Many animal species learn essential survival behaviors from their parents, for example. Bereft of good role models and the ecological interactions they would have had naturally,
Since 1976, the Frozen Zoo at the San diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research has collected cell specimens form more than 800 animal species and subspecies.
A lack of grass is also dramatically raising the costs to farmers in animal Feed in addition, cities with seemingly endlessly-growing levels of pollution, like Madrid, Barcelona,
He is a board member of the Ohio Environmental Council and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
Sometime this summer or soon after, the federal Food and Drug Administration may finally approve the first-ever genetically modified animal for human consumption--a fast-growing Atlantic salmon that has taken 17 years to reach the threshold of American consensus. The man to thank
I have no doubt the FDA will approve a genetically modified animal at some point, says Kakha Bendukidze,
Whether it's this fish or some other animal, it has to do this, or it risks America losing its biotechnology edge to countries like China.
Aquabounty is the only animal biotechnology company in the United states trying to gain approval for a gene-altered animal to enter the human food chain.
if the United states can't approve a gene-altered animal for consumption, U s. industries will lose out to nations that will.
has said one factor in moving the study was that it took the FDA a decade just to decide how to regulate bioengineered food and dairy animals.
is try to make a more efficient animal, Bendukidze says. Itã¢â â¢s like selective breeding in cattle to increase milk production or produce more beef per pound.
In fact, the botanists speculate that one possible explanation for the fern's arsenic storage ability is to discourage animals from dining on fern salad.
creating a habitat for animals and better quality water for residents. Scientists are recreating natural elements, such as riffles and pools,
With 1. 2 billion methane-burping animals on the planet today, the digestive systems of livestock are worthy of examination.
By dropping electronic devices into cows stomachs, researchers hope to monitor what it is that makes the animals so gassy
scientists hope to alter the cows diets to produce Šlow methane  animals. CSIRO is also researching exactly how diet
he is fed up with eating the same animals day after day. Everywhere I travel it's the same.
But if you say'all this animal has eaten ever is honey, 'it can be a real game changer.
governments are trying to implement  20 targets to save the world's fast disappearing flora and fauna.
But with loud screams or shouts, the tree will then adopt the behavior of a skittish animal,
Jack Hanna on the one word in global warming that everyone's avoidingjack Hanna is an animal expert, director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium,
ŠJungle Jack  and his animals are regular guests on The Late Show with David Letterman, Good morning America, Larry king Live, The Ellen Degeneres Show and The Maury Povich Show.
 I spoke with Hanna recently about zoos conservation, and the obvious cause of global warming that he said no one wants to discuss.
When you arrived at the Columbus Zoo in 1978, what did the habitats look like? It was on the verge of being closed,
like a lot of zoos. A lot of the animals were in cages, and it didn t resemble natural habitats.
This is totally a conservation field that has turned around a million percent. Last year, 182 million people went to zoos and aquariums.
It s the largest recreation activity in America not NASCAR, not football. Today, in some cases the habitats are built better than
It s the human beings, not the animals. Is it not obvious or what? I tell people what happens to our resources water, air,
Why is educating people at zoos so important? Kids don t get outside anymore. When folks see the zoo;
they re calling giraffes camels and camels giraffes. You can t blame them for that.
Some kids are afraid to see the chickens in the petting zoo. Teachers ask what can we do,
That s why it s important for people to go to the zoo and see the elephant
When people go to the zoo, they learn things like the giraffe has the same number of vertebrae as a human being.
Zoos will play a major role in conserving the earth s wildlife
Japan to grow human organs inside pigsâ Japanese researchers are seeking less conventional methods to ensure transplant waiting list patients can receive the organs they need--by growing them inside pigs.
in order for the piglets to grow into chimeric animals. The animals have been modified genetically to switch off natural genes with instructions to create particular organs.
Stem cells from other animals are introduced then to replace the missing instructions with organ growth from different pig species. For example
as a modified white pig grew, so did the animal's pancreas --which is genetically a black pig's. The ultimate objective of this research is to eventually develop a method for human organs to be grown inside pigs.
Not only this, but Professor Hiro Nakauchi from Tokyo University has taken things a step further. Nakauchi wants to be able to take skin cells from human adults
and can grow in to any organ in an animal's body --and so it may be possibleâ to grow genetically identical organs for humans who need a transplant inside other animals.
So far the scientists has managed to successfully utilise IPS cells to grow a brown rat's pancreas inside of a white mouse,
So not only do the animals get the job done, but they are much less expensive to feed than a power mower is to fuel.
communities of plants and animals that exist in a specific climate. The report focuses on the temperate broadleaf forest biome
and animals coordinate resources and create redundant, distributed life-support systems. An oak tree and a jay, for example, have a strong alliance in
either become new oak trees or food for other animals. Energy and nutrients are moved through the ecosystem this way,
These genetically modified animals lactate the vaccine proteins. At this point the milk has to be treated to isolate the vaccine for injection,
If you produce these proteins in goats and other transgenic animals, it s way more efficient,
and say we shouldn t be using animals for anything. You know, blah, blah, blah. Westhusin's betting that impoverished countries will give more weight to their health
These animals live in places that don't produce a good fossil record. So we have virtually no fossil record for these modern apes.
Animals should be off the menu. The affirmative side (animals should be off the menu) comprised of controversial philosopher Peter Singer, Citibank vice president and philanthropist Philip Wollen,
and newspaper editor Veronica Ridge. The negative team (animals should be on the menu) was made up of agriculture lecturer and pig farmer Fiona Chambers, animal scientist Bruce Mcgregor,
and chef and author Adrian Richardson. This Intelligence Squared debate, co-hosted by the Wheeler Centre
We can live a healthy life with animals off the menu. Citing a recent Harvard paper on red meat,
People who do have animals off their menu are likely to live healthier and longer life than those who have animals on their menu,
our environment and the eco system including our animals. A skilled farmer works in harmony with the eco system so that the environment truly stays in balance,
Food security Peter Singer argued that we waste most of the food value of the grains and soybeans we feed to animals.
the animals may return to us somewhere between one-tenth and one-third of the food value of the grains
In contrast Bruce Mcgregor, the third member of the negative team, said that removing animals off the menu threatens our food security and the livelihood of at least two billion people.
Fiona Chambers also agreed that taking animals off the menu would pose an ecological and food security disaster.
and that animals are a fundamental part of cultural biodiversity Firstly, animals are a vital link in the global ecological and,
as such, are linked inextricably to the environment and the future of our food. Secondly, because they serve many important social
She contended that taking animals off the menu encouraged innovation and creativity. At the world s top restaurant today, you can have a wonderfully entertaining
you can eat brilliantly without slaughtering animals. Join the debate According to the Wheeler Centre, 65%of the Melbourne audience supported the proposition,
Animals should be off the menu. Photo: thskyt, Flickr; Wheeler Centre
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