Ecology & Zoology

Pollen Makes Honey Bees More Resistant To Pesticides

Natural pollen makes honey bees significantly more resistant to pesticides than an artificial diet and pesticide exposure causes changes in gene expression related to diet and nutrition, according to a new study. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2014 - 10:53am

Bat Influenza Unlikely To Get You Sick If You Get Bit

If you see a bat zooming toward you this evening, cover your hair. But if you do get bit, you will probably not the flu. Halloween bats can be a little scary knowing they are not going to spread most viruses. A research project finds that influenza viruses ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2014 - 11:02am

Coffee Tree Gets Its Genome Sequenced

A reference genome for coffee trees has been sequenced for the first time. It improves understanding of the organization of the genome, which is academic, but it also offers new possibilities for selection or improvement of coffee tree varieties.  The rese ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 8:00am

The Inhabitants Of Your Bird Feeder In 2075 Could Be Much Different

In World War II, did people with bird feeders have substantially different chirping friends than we see today? Probably not, but a group of researchers warns than 2075 might look a lot less like then, or even 1975, or today. The distribution of birds in th ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 12:54pm

Tree Disease Helps Forests

When it comes to human life, we never think about culling the herd, instead the goal is to keep as many people alive and healthy as possible. But in nature, that isn't the best approach. Some plant diseases attack trees and crops and can hurt lumber ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2014 - 6:20pm

It's Time To Revise How We Classify Life On Earth

When is a cat not a cat? Biodiversity Heritage Library (adapted), CC BY By Ben Holt, Imperial College London and Knud Andreas Jønsson, Imperial College London ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 12 2014 - 6:00pm

Pretty Kitty: 'Friendly' Genes In Felines Mapped In Study

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Article - The Conversation - Nov 13 2014 - 6:34pm

FrankenTrees- Three New Dogwoods Created

Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) and various genetically modified relatives are the most popular and economically significant members of the genus Cornus in the nursery and landscape industries. These deciduous trees are hi ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2014 - 2:00pm

Stachys Caroliniana: Rare New Species Of Plant Discovered

Sometimes you don't need to travel to the unexplored corners of the globe to discover a new species of plant. Sometimes they can be really close to home, you just have to spend 40 years of your life looking. University of South Carolina Professor Joh ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2014 - 1:28pm

Not Neonics: Parasites Are Bad For Honey Bees

For a short window, it appeared that bees were dying off. Environmentalist were quick to blame a new kind of pesticide, Neonicotinoids, known in short form as neonics, but then it turned out that the die-offs were in just one geographical area, which woul ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2014 - 11:13pm