Mating and Breeding News

Posted November 4, 2009:

• Calm Before The Spawn: Climate Change And Coral Spawning
• New Insights Into Australia's Unique Platypus
• Hormone That Affects Finger Length Key To Social Behavior

Posted November 1, 2009:

• A Solution To Darwin's 'Mystery Of The Mysteries' Emerges From The Dark Matter Of The Genome

Posted October 30, 2009:

• Why Do Animals, Especially Males, Have So Many Different Colors?
• Inconspicuous Leaf Beetles Reveal Environment's Role In Formation Of New Species

Posted October 29, 2009:

• French Male Bears In Immediate Need Of More Females

Posted October 28, 2009:

• Secrets In A Seed: Clues Into The Evolution Of The First Flowers

Posted October 27, 2009:

• Junk DNA Mechanism That Prevents Two Species From Reproducing Discovered

Posted October 26, 2009:

• Male Australian Redback Spiders Employ Courtship Strategies To Preserve Their Life

Posted October 24, 2009:

• Female Choice Benefits Mothers More Than Offspring

Posted October 22, 2009:

• Reproduction: Why Having A Mate Provides An Evolutionary Advantage Over Self-fertilization

Posted October 21, 2009:

• Scientists Discover Largest Orb-weaving Spider

Posted October 15, 2009:

• Absent Pheromones Turn Male Flies Into Lusty Lotharios

Posted October 13, 2009:

• Sex In The Caribbean: Environmental Change Drives Evolutionary Change, Eventually

Posted October 12, 2009:

• Opportunity To Usurp Reproductive Power Of Royal Throne Keeps Worker Termites Home

Posted October 8, 2009:

• Loyal Alligators Display Mating Habits Of Birds

Posted October 5, 2009:

• Bees Fight Back Against Colony Collapse Disorder: Some Honey Bees Toss Out Varroa Mites

Posted October 2, 2009:

• Killer Bees May Increase Food Supplies For Native Bees
• Parasite Bacteria May Help Fight Spread Of Mosquito-borne Diseases
• Genetic Conflict In Fish Led To Evolution Of New Sex Chromosomes

Posted October 1, 2009:

• Monkeys' Grooming Habits Provide New Clues To How We Socialize

Posted September 29, 2009:

• Mother Knows Best: Females Control Sperm Storage To Pick The Best Father
• Fish Go Mad For Ginger Gene

Posted September 28, 2009:

• Draft Potato Genome Based On Unique Potato Variety
• Fruit Fly Sperm Makes Females Do Housework After Sex

Posted September 17, 2009:

• Live Birth -- Key To Much Marine Life -- Depends Upon Evolution Of Chromosomal Sex Determination

Posted September 15, 2009:

• When You've Doubled Your Genes, What's One Chromosome More Or Less? How Polyploidy And Genomic Change Can Lead To Evolutionary Change

Posted September 11, 2009:

• A Boy For Every Girl? Not Even Close: Scientists Trace Evolution Of Butterflies Infected With Deadly Bacteria
• Worker Bees In 'Reproductive Class War' With Queen, New Research Discovers

Posted September 10, 2009:

• Imitate To Communicate: Even Singers In The Bird World Have To Deal With Cover Artists

Posted September 7, 2009:

• Why Solitary Reptiles Lay Eggs In Communal Nests

Posted September 3, 2009:

• Early 20th Century Evolutionist May Have Discovered Epigenetics
• Protein Modifier SUMO Helps Set Apart Females And Males

Posted September 1, 2009:

• Zebrafish Cloning Methods Improved

Posted August 31, 2009:

• Creating The Ultimate Drought-Resistant Lawn/Pasture Grass
• Disease Threat May Change How Frogs Mate

Posted August 28, 2009:

• Turning Back The Clock: Fasting Prolongs Reproductive Life Span

Posted August 27, 2009:

• Primates With Donor Eggs' Mitochondria: Breakthrough Could Help Prevent Some Maternally-based Diseases

Posted August 26, 2009:

• Global Priority Regions For Carnivore Conservation

Posted August 25, 2009:

• Ant Has Given Up Sex Completely, Report Researchers

Posted August 22, 2009:

• New Pheromone Helps Female Flies Tell Suitors To 'Buzz Off'

Posted August 19, 2009:

• Social Networking Study Reveals Threat To Tasmanian Devils

Posted August 18, 2009:

• Model Explains Disorders Caused By Improper Transmission Of Chromosomes
• Speciation Through Genome Duplication More Common In Plant Evolution Than Previously Thought

Posted August 16, 2009:

• Fungus Found In Humans Shown To Be Nimble In Mating Game

Posted August 8, 2009:

• Males Of High Genetic Quality Are Not Very Successful At Fertilizing Eggs

Posted August 2, 2009:

• Radio Telemetry Used To Track Movement And Habitat Of Roadrunners

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