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How cells correctly choose active genes

Phys Dot Org 05 Nov 2021
The Junior Professor for Systems Biology/Bioinformatics at the Zoological Institute (ZOO) of KIT also heads a working group at KIT's Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems—Biological Information Processing (IBCS-BIP) ... This is reported in Molecular Systems Biology ... 10.15252/msb.202110272 Journal information. Molecular Systems Biology.
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Evidence of convergence toward a social gut microbiome among vampire bats

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes their study of fecal samples collected from vampire bats from several zoos and in several wild locations ... Karthik Yarlagadda et al, Social convergence of gut microbiomes in vampire bats, Biology Letters (2021). DOI. 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0389 Journal information. Biology Letters.
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Male nursery web spiders may be adding chemicals to silk to make nuptial gifts more ...

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, Michelle Beyer, Julia Mangliers and Cristina Tuni, describe their study of Pisaura mirabilis, also known as the nursery spider, and its mating habits ... Michelle Beyer et al, Silk-borne chemicals of spider nuptial gifts elicit female gift acceptance, Biology Letters (2021) ... Biology Letters.
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A brain switch that helps worms keep their cool

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
How our bodies sense and respond to environmental changes are fundamental biological questions ... In research recently published in PLOS Biology, researchers from the Casanueva group used the tiny nematode worm C ... For invertebrates like C ... Dr ... In this study, Dr ... elegans, PLOS Biology (2021) ... 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001431 Journal information. PLoS Biology.
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Female finches are picky but pragmatic when choosing a mate

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
... mate, allowing them to avoid the fitness costs of being too selective when competition for males is high, report Wolfgang Forstmeier at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, and colleagues, in a study publishing November 4th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.
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Forests could be key to estuarine fish conservation

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
The finding, published in the journal Conservation Biology, could help improve estuary conservation and improve understanding of how to best develop and maintain sustainable coastal fisheries ... Lavergne Edouard et al, Effects of forest cover on richness of threatened fish species in Japan, Conservation Biology (2021) ... Conservation Biology.
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Hunting for human obesity genes in fat fruit flies

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
Fruit flies provide an effective platform for screening new obesity genes, and fat flies implicate a neuronal signaling pathway in weight gain, according to a new study publishing November 4th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sadaf Farooqi and Andrea Brand of the University of Cambridge, UK, and colleagues ... PLoS Biology.
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Coral bleaching impacts 98% of Great Barrier Reef: study

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
The paper in the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology found that just two percent of the vast underwater ecosystem had escaped impacts since the first mass coral bleaching event in 1998—then the world's hottest year ever, a record that has repeatedly been broken as climate change accelerates ... Explore further ... Journal information. Current Biology ... ....
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Researchers develop novel 3D printing technique to engineer biofilms

Technology Org 04 Nov 2021
Meyer, an associate professor of biology at the University of Rochester, and her collaborators at Delft University of ... In their latest research, published in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology, Meyer and her colleagues show that engineered biofilms can behave like natural ones.
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Revealing the ramifications of ocean acidification for coralline algae

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
In a new study published in Global Change Biology, an international team, including researchers from the University of Tsukuba, revealed that lower seawater pH is associated with decreases in the abundance, calcification rates, and recruitment of coralline algae ... Meta‐analysis and synthesis, Global Change Biology (2021) ... Global Change Biology.
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Using microbes to make carbon-neutral fuel

Technology Org 04 Nov 2021
The results are reported in the journal Communications Biology. The study was led by Arpita Bose, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, and co-authored by members of her laboratory and engineers from the McKelvey School of Engineering, also at Washington University.
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Impaired wild mice survive and thrive as well as unimpaired counterparts

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
"This study is both powerful—more than 27,000 wild mice over 26 years—and surprising," says Doug Levey, a program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology, which provided grant support for the work ... Biological Sciences (2021) ... 10.1098/rspb.2021.1942 Journal information.
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Quantum Physics in Proteins

Technology Org 04 Nov 2021
The team of developers, led by Abbas Ourmazd from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Robin Santra from DESY, is presenting its clever combination of quantum physics and molecular biology in the scientific journal Nature.
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Pangolin trafficking: Iceberg tip of Nigeria's illegal trade revealed

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
The study, published in Biological Conservation, cites experts suggesting that detected wildlife seizures are anywhere from 30% to just 2% of the overall illegal trade ... Temporal and spatial patterns and the effectiveness of wildlife trade regulations, Biological Conservation (2021) ... 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109365 Journal information.
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What sponges can tell us about the evolution of the brain

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021
Despite its central importance, the brain's origins have not yet been uncovered. The first animal brains appeared hundreds of millions of years ago ... Their latest findings are published today in the journal Science ... Schwab explained ... DOI ... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj2949 Journal information ... Provided by European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

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