News tagged with invertebrate biology
Scientists help decode mysterious green glow of the sea
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Many longtime sailors have been mesmerized by the dazzling displays of green light often seen below the ocean surface in tropical seas. Now researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego ...
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The Worm That Turned Evolutionary Key
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Keelworm, widespread in the seas and tide-pools around Scotland and the rest of the UK, is unwittingly helping scientists at the University of St Andrews to understand the evolution of modern animals.
Researchers go underground to reveal 850 new species
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Australian researchers have discovered a huge number of new species of invertebrate animals living in underground water, caves and "micro-caverns" amid the harsh conditions of the Australian outback.
Researchers find the root of the evolutionary emergence of vertebrates
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Feb 11, 2008 |
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Dartmouth College researchers and colleagues from the University of Bristol in the U.K. have traced the beginnings of complex life, i.e. vertebrates, to microRNA. The researchers argue that the evolution of microRNAs, which ...
The bizarre lives of bone-eating worms
Nov 09, 2009 |
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The females of the recently discovered Osedax marine worms feast on submerged bones via a complex relationship with symbiotic bacteria, and they are turning out to be far more diverse and widespread than scientists expected. ...
Gene decides whether coral relative will fuse or fight
Mar 19, 2009 |
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When coral colonies meet one another on the reef, they have two options: merge into a single colony or reject each other and aggressively compete for space. Now, a report in the March 19th Current Biology, a Cell Press public ...
New research on octopuses sheds light on memory
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Jun 17, 2008 |
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Research on octopuses has shed new light on how our brains store and recall memory, says Dr. Benny Hochner of the Department of Neurobiology at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew ...
New portal for plant genomics will support research into improved crops
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Today sees the launch of Ensembl Plants - a freely available web resource for plant genomics research - by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), in partnership with the ...
New research may help to design better gene therapy vectors
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Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published by scientists from the University of Reading may offer an insight into ways of making safer and more specific gene therapy vectors. The research, published in the journal Nature Structural an ...
Worm-like marine animal providing
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Jun 18, 2008 |
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[B]The marine invertebrate amphioxus offers baseline information for genetic roots of vertebrate innovation such as the adaptive immune system[/B] Research on the genome of a marine creature led by scientists at ...
Tool use in an invertebrate: The coconut-carrying octopus
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Scientists once thought of tool use as a defining feature of humans. That's until examples of tool use came in from other primates, along with birds and an array of other mammals. Now, a report in the December 14th issue ...
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