News tagged with aquatic rodents


Natural-born divers and the molecular traces of evolution

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An aquatic lifestyle imposes serious demands for the organism, and this is true even for the tiniest molecules that form our body. When the ancestors of present marine mammals initiated their return to the oceans, their ...





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How mice and humans differ immunologically

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Edith Hessel and colleagues, at Dynavax Technologies Corporation, Berkeley, have identified the reason that humans and rodents respond differently to a molecule that is being developed to treat allergic diseases.


Small rodents encourage the formation of scrubland in Spain

Small rodents encourage the formation of scrubland in Spain

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

After two years of research over five degraded landscapes in the National Park of Sierra Nevada (Granada), scientists have established for the first time that field mice base their diet on holm oak and pine ...


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Antarctic lake home to diverse community of viruses

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of the genetic structure of viruses in an Antarctic lake has revealed an astonishing genetic richness in the large number of viral families discovered.


Libya records 13 cases of bubonic plague

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Thirteen cases of bubonic plague have been recorded in eastern Libya, near the border with Egypt, Health Minister Mohamad Hijazi told AFP on Wednesday, stressing the situation was under control.


Early detection sought for aquatic invasive weed Eurasian Watermilfoil

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Battling invasive plants is nothing new to Montanans, but a newcomer on the scene dwells in the water. This aquatic invader is called Eurasian watermilfoil. Fortunately, Montanans can take preventive action ...


A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tom Parker has made an unusual find. In California forests and shrubland that burned in 2008, he has spotted Manzanita seedlings sprouting in tight clusters, suggesting that the young shrubs emerged from underground ...


Bush rats fight back

Bush rats fight back

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce ...


City rats loyal to their 'hoods, scientists discover

Scientists find city rats are loyal to their 'hoods'

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the rat race of life, one thing is certain: there's no place like home. Now, a study just released in Molecular Ecology finds the same is true for rats. Although inner city rodents appear to roam freely ...


Plague on their house, but bush rats fight back

Plague on their house, but bush rats fight back

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce ...


Rodent size linked to human population and climate change

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 5

You probably hadn't noticed -- but the head shape and overall size of rodents has been changing over the past century. A University of Illinois at Chicago ecologist has tied these changes to human population density and climate ...



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