Depending on the composition of the defensive toxins of their host plants, the insects use two different complementary enzymes for detoxification
The thalamus acts as central communications hub for the brain, relaying information from the senses and other brain parts.
The TGF-ß cellular signaling network, essential to various functions in all metazoans and also involved in many severe human pathologies like autoimmune diseases and cancer, is more flexible than previously thought.
Genetically modified worms may make us rethink invertebrate evolution
An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the evolution of life on earth, revealing what the first animals to make skeletons looked like.
To better understand the evolution of flowers, a research team in biology from Université de Montréal, the Montreal Botanical Garden and McGill University have succeeded in using photogrammetry to quickly and precisely build, in three dimensions, a model of a flower from two-dimensional images.
550-million-year-old creatures’ message to the present
Sphingolipids are a type of fatty material (lipids) in cell membranes that are critical for membrane structure and cell signaling. When they malfunction, sphingolipids can cause human illnesses, such as Gaucher disease, a rare inherited metabolic disorder.
Research team analyzed genome-wide data for 33 Jewish individuals from 14th century Erfurt, Germany
Dinosaurs — and birds — wouldn’t have been able to stand on their own two feet without some radical changes to their upper thigh bones. Now, a new study by Yale paleontologists charts the evolutionary course of these leggy alterations.
A study of the mitochondrial DNA of the common wall lizard shows that their spread from Italy into southeastern Europe was probably aided by human influence.
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Helsinki, has demonstrated that image databases can be used as an alternative to museum collections when studying long-term changes in human-nature interaction and as material in ecological and evolutionary research.
Proceeding from a concept called the proto-metabolism hypothesis, geneticists at the University College London (UCL) provide a new framework for the origin of the genetic code in protocells growing by CO2 fixation.
Acoustic communication is not only widespread in land vertebrates like birds and mammals, but also in reptiles, amphibians and fishes.
An international team of scientists who analyzed centuries-old DNA from victims and survivors of the Black Death pandemic has identified key genetic differences that determined who lived and who died, and how those aspects of our immune systems have continued to evolve since that time.
Researchers from Université de Montréal and the University of Minnesota have developed a fast, nondestructive way of estimating how millions of dried plant specimens interacted with their environment.
Baboons borrowed a third of their genes from a closely related species
New analysis of chimpanzee stone tools shows diverse material culture
Due to the change of a single amino acid, brain evolution has proceeded differently
Ancient genomes of thirteen Neandertals provide a rare snapshot of their community and social organization