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Common antimicrobial agent rapidly disrupts gut bacteria (Oregon State University)

Edit Public Technologies 18 May 2016
(Source. Oregon State University). CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new study suggests that triclosan, an antimicrobial and antifungal agent found in many consumer products ranging from hand soaps to toys and even toothpaste, can rapidly disrupt bacterial communities found in the gut ... This study showed it was quickly associated with shifts in the microbial community structure and can alter the abundance of specific taxa ... (noodl. 33625192) ....

Only two kinds of sexual arrangements are possible among social animals

Edit Ars Technica 17 May 2016
"The proportion of breeders in societies with more than one reproductive female appeared to be dependent upon the total number of females in the group; when societies with multiple breeding females from all taxa (ants, wasps, mammals, birds) were pooled, we found that the proportion of breeders decreased significantly with the total number of females in the group," the researchers wrote in their paper....

Asian waterbird census data causes mixed feelings

Edit The Hindu 16 May 2016
A quarter century of ornithological observations of wetland birds of Kerala come with a mixed bag of joy and despair for birders ... The brightly coloured purple swamphen is one species that have thrived amidst widespread destruction of its habitats ... Same is the case with blackheaded Ibis ... Reclamation of wetlands and the aquatic ecosystems, which are often considered as wastelands, is spelling trouble to several taxa ... Keywords....

Mitigating Problematic Bycatch in Tuna Fisheries (ISSF - International Seafood Sustainability Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 10 May 2016
(Source. ISSF - International Seafood Sustainability Foundation). Accounting for Conflicts between Species Groups. 9 May 2016. Posted by Eric Gilman ... Changes in gear designs and fishing methods and other methods can mitigate problematic bycatch ... Click here for a recent article in the journal Fish & Fisheries on cross-taxa conflicting effects of longline hook shape ... A cross-taxa assessment of pelagic longline bycatch mitigation measures ... 568....

Narrow-Spectrum Antibiotic Could Spare the Microbiome

Edit The Scientist 09 May 2016
Researchers at St ... aureus ... Jude ... At the taxa level, Debio1452 caused one bacterial family called S24-7 to drop from making up 30 percent to 50 percent of the bacteria to just 0.2 percent after 10 days of treatment ... All of the other antibiotic-treated groups experienced substantial changes in major and minor taxa, which persisted anywhere from one to four weeks after the treatment ended ... J ... ....

Study highlights impact of drought upon UK's aquatic invertebrates (Nottingham Trent University)

Edit Public Technologies 06 May 2016
New research involving Nottingham Trent University found that just three types, or 'taxa', of invertebrate remained at temporary stream sites which experienced long periods of drying during a severe drought - compared with 24 types at sites which witnessed shorter dry phases ... They found that multiple individuals of just three taxa - worms, ......

Most Gut Microbes Can Be Cultured

Edit The Scientist 04 May 2016
Microbes thrive in nearly every Earthly environment, but surprisingly few are known to flourish when grown in labs. As a result, studies of the human gut microbiome have primarily utilized genomic approaches ... H.P. Browne et al., “Culturing of ‘unculturable’ human microbiota reveals novel taxa and extensive sporulation,” Nature, doi.10.1038/nature17645, 2016. ....

Dopamine pathway divergence in social primates [Anthropology]>

Edit PNAS 02 May 2016
In the endeavor to associate genetic variation with complex traits, closely related taxa are particularly fruitful for understanding the neurophysiological and genetic underpinnings of species-specific attributes. Similarity to humans has motivated research into nonhuman primate models, yet few studies of wild primates have investigated immediate causal factors of evolutionarily diverged... ....

Turtles senesce in the wild [Evolution]>

Edit PNAS 02 May 2016
Lifespan and aging rates vary considerably across taxa; thus, understanding the factors that lead to this variation is a primary goal in biology and has ramifications for understanding constraints and flexibility in human aging. Theory predicts that senescence—declining reproduction and increasing mortality with advancing age—evolves when selection against harmful mutations... ....

This Week@WesternU, May 2-6, 2016 (Western University of Health Sciences)

Edit Public Technologies 02 May 2016
(Source. Western University of Health Sciences). WesternU pilot tests Anatomage Navigator. Western University of Health Sciences is the first university to utilize the Anatomage Navigator, a volumetric inner anatomy visualization tool with tracking stylus ... Dr ... Dr ... Dr ... The research was conducted with collaborators from the EPA to identify bacterial taxa associated with fecal contamination of streams and rivers due to agricultural activities....

What’s the Most Painful Sting? An Interview with ‘the King of Sting’

Edit Newsweek 30 Apr 2016
I met entomologist Justin Schmidt by chance in an Arizona ghost town. I was there to write a story about how the monsoon brings out tons of bizarre-looking creatures and the naturalists who chase them. Schmidt, one of those colorful bug-lovers, was relaxing with his family and, of course, running after insects ... Bullet ants ... No ... No ... There is a correlation, and it took about 30 years of collecting data, from about 60 taxa, to find that out ... ....

Australia's Giant Penguins Outlasted Those On Other Continents

Edit IFL Science 29 Apr 2016
The adorable little penguins (Eudyptula minor) of southern Australia, the continent's only surviving penguin species, manage to support a large tourism industry single-flippered ... “There is no evidence suggesting that any of the Australian taxa are more closely related to each other than to other taxa, although more complete remains of these taxa may reveal a sister group relationship between some species,” the paper reports ... ....

Kudzoo the western lowland gorilla is expecting (Atlanta Fulton County Zoo Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016
(Source ... A birth is expected in September 2016 ... King, President and CEO ... Zoo Atlanta is the headquarters of the Great Ape Heart Project, the world's first effort to understand, diagnose, and treat cardiac disease across all four great ape taxa ... America ... Zoo Atlanta is the headquarters of the Great Ape Heart Project, the world's first coordinated effort to understand, diagnose, and treat cardiac disease across all four great ape taxa ... ###....
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