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African Starlings: Dashing Darlings of the Bird World in More Ways Than One
June 10, 2013 — It's not going to happen while you're peering through your binoculars, but African glossy starlings change color more than 10 times faster than their ancestors and even their modern relatives, say ... > full story -
Mating and Breeding
Evolutionary Biology
Dolphins and Whales
Animals
Biology
Insects (including Butterflies)
Sperm Wars Ruled by Females? Females Play Active, Pivotal Role in Postcopulatory Processes
June 10, 2013 — Females play a larger role in determining paternity than previously thought, say biologists. The findings have major implications for the study of sexual selection, sexual conflict and the ... > full story -
Bridge Species Drive Tropical Engine of Biodiversity
June 10, 2013 — New research sheds light on how the tropics came to be teeming with species while the poles harbor relatively few. Furthermore, it confirms that the tropics have been and continue to be the ... > full story -
Agriculture and Food
Land Management
Genetically Modified
Food and Agriculture
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Pests and Parasites
Biotech Crops Vs. Pests: Successes and Failures from the First Billion Acres
June 10, 2013 — A landmark study analyzes why pest resistance to genetically modified crops evolved quickly in some cases, but not others. The global assessment could help to gauge the risk of resistance for new ... > full story -
How Does Inbreeding Avoidance Evolve in Plants?
June 10, 2013 — Inbreeding is generally deleterious, even in flowering plants. Since inbreeding raises the risk that bad copies of a gene will be expressed, inbred progeny suffer from reduced viability. A case study ... > full story -
Self-Fertilizing Plants Contribute to Their Own Demise
June 10, 2013 — Many plants are self-fertilizing, meaning they act as both mother and father to their own seeds. This strategy -- known as selfing -- guarantees reproduction but, over time, leads to reduced ... > full story -
How Similar Are the Gestures of Apes and Human Infants? More Than You Might Suspect
June 6, 2013 — A new study used naturalistic video data for the first time to compare gestures in a female chimpanzee, bonobo and human ... > full story -
Genetics
Evolutionary Biology
Developmental Biology
Life Sciences
Biology
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
How Young Genes Gain a Toehold on Becoming Indispensable
June 6, 2013 — Scientists have, for the first time, mapped a young gene’s short, dramatic evolutionary journey to becoming essential, or indispensable. The researchers detail one gene’s rapid switch to ... > full story -
Predicting the Future of Coral Reefs in a Changing World
June 6, 2013 — Scientists have described for the first time the biological process of how corals create their skeletons, which form massive and ecologically vital coral reefs in the world's oceans. They identified ... > full story -
How Birds Lost Their Penises: Programmed Cell Death
June 6, 2013 — In animals that reproduce by internal fertilization, as humans do, you'd think a penis would be an organ you couldn't really do without, evolutionarily speaking. Surprisingly, though, most birds do ... > full story
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