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Invasive 'Crazy Ants' Are Displacing Fire Ants in Areas Throughout Southeastern U.S.
May 16, 2013 Invasive "crazy ants" are displacing fire ants in areas across the southeastern United States, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. It's the latest in a history of ant ... > full story -
Fishing for Memories: How Long-Term Memories Are Processed to Guide Behavior
May 16, 2013 In our interaction with our environment we constantly refer to past experiences stored as memories to guide behavioral decisions. But how memories are formed, stored and then retrieved to assist ... > full story -
Coral Reef Fishes Prove Invaluable in the Study of Evolutionary Ecology
May 16, 2013 Coral reef fish species have proven invaluable for experimental testing of key concepts in social evolution and already have yielded insights about the ultimate reasons for female reproductive ... > full story -
X-Ray Tomography of Living Frog Embryo
May 16, 2013 Classical X-ray radiographs provide information about internal, absorptive structures of organisms such as bones. Alternatively, X-rays can also image soft tissues throughout early embryonic ... > full story -
Paleontology: The Eloquence of Otoliths Seen in a 23-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil
May 16, 2013 Fish fossils that are about 23 million years old give unprecedented insight into the evolutionary history of the gobioid order, one of the most species-rich groups among the modern bony ... > full story -
Crickets' Calling Song Hits the High Notes
May 16, 2013 Research has detailed how acoustic communication has evolved within a unique species of cricket which exploits extremely high frequency harmonics to ... > full story -
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Who's Your Daddy? Infidelity and Paternity in Reed Warblers
May 16, 2013 Researchers recently carried out experiments with reed warblers to see how a situation of potential infidelity affects later paternal investment in the chicks and whether it does in fact lead to ... > full story -
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Malaria Infected Mosquitoes More Attracted to Human Odor Than Uninfected Mosquitoes
May 15, 2013 Female mosquitoes infected with malaria parasites are significantly more attracted to human odor than uninfected mosquitoes, according to new research. Scientists will now attempt to find out how ... > full story -
Frog Once Imported for Pregnancy Testing Brought Deadly Amphibian Disease to U.S.
May 15, 2013 African frogs, originally imported for early 20th century pregnancy tests, carried a deadly amphibian disease to the US, according to new findings. African Clawed Frogs have long been suspected of ... > full story -
Developmental Genetics of Space and Time
May 15, 2013 Scientists have conducted a study that reveals important and useful insights into how and why developmental genes often take inputs from two independent “morphogen concentration ... > full story
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