Mar. 15, 2024 Scientists tested several hypotheses on the drivers of social aging in free-living Assamese macaques in Thailand. The researchers collected data on the social behavior of females for eight years and ...
Mar. 14, 2024 In examining the mating rituals of roundworms, researchers uncovered a unique approach to reproduction that maximizes genetic ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Females of some whale species have evolved to live drastically longer lives so they can care for their families, new research ...
Mar. 12, 2024 A new study of rice paddy snakes in Southeast Asia gives key details to their diversification and natural history, adding molecular evidence that the rise of the Khorat Plateau and subsequent ...
Mar. 12, 2024 Giraffes, with their bizarre body plan, have always held a special place in the minds of evolutionary biologists and non-experts alike. In a new study whole-genome sequencing data was used to ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Scientists reveal new lineages of giant sea anemones in Japan and their surprising associations with ...
Mar. 8, 2024 Researchers have discovered a mechanism steering the evolution of multicellular life. They identified how altered protein folding drives multicellular ...
Mar. 8, 2024 Biologists present groundbreaking research shedding new light on the evolution of social bonds and cooperation among group-living ...
Mar. 7, 2024 All modern Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite in humans, are descendants of one initial infection and so are very closely related, with relatively limited genetic differences. A ...
Mar. 6, 2024 Early experiences in an animal's life can have a significant impact on its capacity to thrive, even years or decades later, and DNA methylation may help record their effects. In a study of 256 ...
Mar. 6, 2024 New research has found that rubisco -- the enzyme that fuels all life on Earth -- is not stuck in an evolutionary rut after all. The largest analysis of rubisco ever has found that it is improving ...
Mar. 6, 2024 Some of our genes can be expressed or silenced depending on whether we inherited them from our mother or our father. The mechanism behind this phenomenon, known as genomic imprinting, is determined ...
Mar. 6, 2024 'Random DNA' is naturally active in the one-celled fungi yeast, while such DNA is turned off as its natural state in mammalian cells, despite their having a common ancestor a billion years ...
Mar. 5, 2024 A new study finds that exposure to chronic radiation from Chornobyl has not damaged the genomes of microscopic worms living there today -- which doesn't mean that the region is safe, the ...
Mar. 4, 2024 Scientists provide fresh insights on the origins of life, presenting compelling evidence supporting the 'RNA World' hypothesis. The study unveils an RNA enzyme that can make accurate copies ...
Mar. 4, 2024 Plant biologists have uncovered an evolutionary mystery over 100 million years in the making. It turns out that sometime during the last 125 million years, tomatoes and Arabidopsis thaliana plants ...
Mar. 4, 2024 You'd probably walk past a chiton without even seeing it. These creatures often look like nothing more than another speck of seaweed on the crusty intertidal rocks. But it sees you. At least, if ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Researchers succeed at generating 3D visualizations of chloroplasts' copying ...
Mar. 1, 2024 An invasive Asian honeybee colony in northern Australia has defied expectations, displaying emergent genetic variation in a short period of time. While bad news for biosecurity agencies, it could be ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Researchers identified the proteins of a CO2-fixing organelle, namely, 'pyrenoid,' in the marine algal group Chlorarachniophyta and revealed various pyrenoid-associated proteins among algal ...