Complex algae, animals, fungi and plants all have predictable life histories that separate out three basic aspects of ...

The Messor ibericus is, as its name suggests, native to the Iberian Peninsula. But its colonies are found across the entire ...

Challenging the long-standing assumption that a cell’s nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes, recent research ...

What do you get when a tomato and a tuber-less plant meet in the Andes? A potato, nature’s starchy lovechild and one of humanity’s most vital crops. In a prehistoric twist of fate, a natural ...

If you eat fruits or vegetables, how often do you think about their history? Former University of Florida post-doctoral researcher Zhen Fan did, as he traced the strawberry back over centuries. In a ...

I have a diploid and synthetic autotetraploid plant with a haploid genome size of approximately 150 Mb. We know what the ploidy levels are of these samples (as the tetraploid is synthetically created ...

On-site doctors processed the sperm, which was then placed onto a microscopic racetrack while audiences followed along on the big screen. (Curtis Luong / Daily Trojan) In the last sperm race of Friday ...

On March 13, Greg Lang delivered a talk titled “Genome evolution in laboratory populations of yeast” to the Department of Biology. On Thursday, March 13, the Department of Biology hosted Greg Lang, ...

Ryleigh Sprague, Dr. Virginia Schweiss and Taylor Weynand place bags of oyster shells as a part of a project to create a living shoreline on private property in the Back Bay of Biloxi on Tuesday, July ...

What establishes the male or female sex of an ant? In humans, it is X and Y chromosomes that assume this function: women have two X chromosomes while men have one X and one Y chromosome. In ants, bees ...

There’s an old adage about oysters: in months without the letter r—May, June, July, and August—it’s best to stay away. An oyster eaten outside these months should have a satisfying snap, like al dente ...

Role of Minimally Invasive Techniques in the Management of Early-Stage Carcinoma of the Uterine Cervix What level of sensitivity is required is still unclear. Recently, Parsons et al 37 showed that ...