Monday, November 26th, 2007
Honey bees with pupal brood cells. Honeybee larvae produce silk to reinforce the wax cells in which they pupate. (Credit: Nick Pitsas, CSIRO)
Moths and butterflies, particularly silkworms, are well known producers of silk. And we all know spiders use it for their webs. But they are not the only invertebrates ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
A giant peccary in the wild. (Credit: Naturfilm/Roland Gockel)
Dutch biologist Marc van Roosmalen has discovered a new species of peccary, a member of the pig family, in the basin of the Rio Aripuanã in the south-eastern Amazon region. The divergence time from the already known peccary species (the time ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society and other institutions declare that improvements in management of existing protected areas in South Asia could double the number of tigers currently existing in the region.
Specifically, the study examined 157 reserves throughout the Indian subcontinent--comprising India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal. It found that 21 ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
The DNA of a 4-year-old Abyssinian cat named Cinnamon, whose well-documented lineage can be traced back several generations to Sweden, has been sequenced. Cinnamon is one of several mammals that are currently being analyzed using "light" (two-fold) genome sequence coverage. To make sense of Cinnamon's raw sequence data, a multi-center ...
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