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Fast growth may be debilitating
Model organisms are used in many branches of the life sciences in order to render the study of particular structures or mechanism more amenable to experimental manipulation. Zebra finches have helped to address research loads of research questions related to … Continue reading
Deconstructing pyrophilous beetles
On December 14, we got a glimpse of the Northwest Crown Fire Modeling Experiment, one of the most detailed studies of forest fires. Today, we return to the subject of forest fires: pyrophilous insect species like the beetle Melanophila acuminata lay their eggs … Continue reading
Tail kinkiness varies among genetically identical littermates
Axin is a regulator of Wnt signaling, and a mutation in the axin gene can lead to cloned mice differing in the kinkiness of their tail, as shown in today’s Open Access File of the Day. Fig. 1 of the feature Human Epigenome … Continue reading
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Tagged 2003, CC BY, Creative Commons, epigenome, Feature, genome, Jane Bradbury, kinkiness, mice, model organism, PLoS Biology, PNG, tail, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktionary
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Did you know that you are a vector too?
Have you ever thought of yourself as a vector? To some life forms, you certainly are. Amongst them is the pepper mild mottle virus that transits your digestive tract before reaching target plants like pepper. In today’s Open Access File of the Day, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, Arabic, CC BY, Creative Commons, digestion, English, Liza Gross, Pamela Roberts, parasitology, pathogen, plant disease, plant virus, PLoS Biology, PNG, synopsis, Tao Zhang, UF/IFAS Pest Alert, vector, virus, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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A snapshot of versatility
Wolbachia is one of the favourite model systems in evolutionary biology and theoretical biology, as it has such a wide range of effects on the hosts it resides in. When the first Wolbachia genome was published in 2004, the paper was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004, CC BY, Creative Commons, electron microscopy, evolutionary biology, French, genome, Liza Gross, Martin Wu, model organism, model system, PLoS Biology, PNG, Scott O'Neill, synopsis, theoretical biology, Wikimedia Commons, Wikinews, Wikispecies, Wolbachia
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Gough Island – as remote as it gets on the planet
Few places on our planet are as remote as Gough Island in the Southern Atlantic, yet even there, invasive species are not uncommon, as pointed out in a feature article in PLoS Biology, from which today’s Open Access File of … Continue reading
[[Francis Crick]] expanded on the Sanskrit Wikipedia
On January 14, the entry about Francis Crick on the Sanskrit Wikipedia was expanded, and the article now includes a photo of him in his office. The image was originally published in an obituary and is the first file from … Continue reading
Critically endangered: Taudactylus eungellensis, the Eungella Torrent Frog
As explained on Saturday, Wikimedia Commons has three files (WebCite) categorized both under IUCN Critically endangered species and Open access (publishing). Following in the footsteps of Camarhynchus heliobates.png and Gyps bengalensis PLoS.png, today’s Open Access File of the Day shall thus be Taudactylus eungellensis.png. Fig. 1 of the synopsis (presumably by Liza Gross) of … Continue reading
Critically endangered: the Galapagos mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates), the rarest of Darwin’s finches
By definition, endangered species consist of low numbers of individuals, which also affects the probability of being able to take good images or recordings of the species, or to find such materials if they already exist. Wikimedia Commons has the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Bulgarian, Camarhynchus heliobates, CatScan, CC BY, Creative Commons, Critically endangered, Darwin's finches, endangered species, Galapagos, Henrik Brumm, IUCN Red List, Michael Dvorak, PLoS ONE, PNG, tools, toolserver, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikispecies
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