Goetze: A natural advantage — greater biodiversity has benefits | Opinion
Goetze: Diversity is a much discussed and debated, and biologists have observed and studied various aspects of natural ...
‘Large’ fanged creature found lurking in dark swamp in Vietnam. It’s a new species
As night fell across a swamp in southern Vietnam, a “large” fanged creature sat in the murky water. Its reddish eyes scanned ...
Leaf beetles' evolutionary success linked to gene transfer and symbiosis
With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of ...
Four new tarantula species identified in Western Ghats
A researcher described four new species of tarantulas, including one new genus, from India’s Western Ghats, a chain of ...
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Symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer shape leaf beetle evolution
With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores.
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Reading the genome and understanding evolution: Symbioses and gene transfer in leaf beetles
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, the Max Planck Institute of Biology in Tübingen, ...
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‘Large’ fanged creature found lurking in dark swamp in Vietnam. It’s a new species
The region “harbors great species richness,” including some native ... But when they compared the newly caught frogs to other “true” examples of the known species, the animals didn ...