Schlagwort: evolutionary
A two-step adaptive walk in the wild
New social organization evolved in one species of fire ants before spreading to other species
James W. Lightfoot commended with the Heidelberg Academy Award
Neuroscientist and Max Planck Research Group Leader James Lightfoot is awarded the Academy Award of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanity. Lightfoot is recognized for his scientific findings on how a predatory nematode species is able to recognize its own offspring and kin. This turned out to be dependent on a small peptide that provides an identification signal. The Academy Award will be presented at a special ceremony on May 22.
When synapse building blocks became scarce: Bayreuth biologists explain protein exchange during vertebrate evolution
Why do we age? The role of natural selection
Microorganism sheds new light on cancer resistance
Inflammation promotes evolutionary innovation in “pregnant” ricefishes
The Honeybee originated in Asia – social behavior helped to colonize vast areas of the globe
The hub of Africa: Bayreuth study traces tropical origins of the Apocynaceae
More than sex: Kiel researchers propose expanded evolutionary concept
Researchers uncover evolutionary forces at play in the aging of the blood system and identify people at increased risk of blood cancer
The rise and fall of elephants
Stoneflies: Youth influences adulthood
Living as a social parasite leads to genetic impoverishment in ants / Publication in Nature Communications
First description of a new octopus species without using a scalpel
In search of the first bacterium
What did the ancestor of all bacteria look like, where did it live and what did it feed on? A team of researchers from the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has now found answers to these questions by analysing biochemical metabolic networks and evolutionary trees. In the journal Communications Biology, they report on how they can now even infer the shape of the first bacterium.
The migration of Austrian blackcaps decoded
When synthetic evolution rhymes with natural diversity
Retracing the history of the mutation that gave rise to cancer decades later
Natural History Museum Vienna and Evolution
The lesser evil: Start of an evolutionary success story
CRC 1182 research team from Plön and Kiel proposes new explanation for the origin of the symbiotic coexistence of complex organisms and their microbial co-inhabitants