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Deep beneath the Hyrcanian forests of northern Iran and the flowstone chambers of Montenegro's Dinaric Karst, two tiny white creatures have been quietly demonstrating one of biology's most striking phenomena: convergent evolution. Taxonomists have described two new species of subterranean…
Italy's botanical map has just been redrawn at its smallest scale.
Researchers in Germany report the first known infestation of newt mouths by sessile Apiosoma ciliates, which may disrupt the animals' suction feeding.
A single sequencing run decoded three complete genomes from the snow fungus and its partner, revealing strict genomic isolation, accessory chromosome dynamics, and a molecular toolkit for fungal breeding. Subject of Research: Holistic genome assembly and analysis of the Tremella…
A single female bug collected in Madagascar in 1972 has been described as Dismegistus madagascariensis sp. nov., the first representative of the family Parastrachiidae ever recorded from the island, closing a chapter in one of entomology's longest taxonomic travels.
On the tropical island of Sri Lanka, a group of small, brightly striped freshwater fishes known as giant danios has quietly been rewriting the rules of island evolution. A new study, published in the journal Evolutionary Systematics, has untangled the…
Deep inside the cells of quails, partridges, chickens and one of North Africa's most endangered birds, a team of cytogeneticists has been reading a molecular archive that stretches back to the age of dinosaurs. In a study published in Comparative…
Deep in the forests of Japan, a group of tiny rove beetles has been quietly living one of biology's most fascinating double lives.
Deep in the arid zones of Andalusia, a microscopic fungus living quietly on the surface of an endemic plant has delivered a surprise that could ripple through the worlds of drug discovery and fungal taxonomy. Researchers investigating a fungal epiphyte…
A dual proteomics and glycoproteomics study of Nannochloropsis oceanica maps 5,136 proteins and 459 N-glycosylation sites, showing that sugar modifications on central metabolic enzymes help the microalga rewire its metabolism to survive low CO2.