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Italian Botanists Map New Native Plant Records
Italian botanists have published new data on the distribution of native vascular flora, including new records, confirmations, and exclusions across various regions.
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New Cordyceps Species Found in Yunnan Forests
Researchers have identified two new species of parasitic fungi and documented a new geographic record for a third within the genus Ophiocordyceps, all found in the subtropical forests of Yunnan Province, China.
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New Horned Toad Species Reveals Complex Mating Rituals
Researchers document the first pre-amplexus reproductive behavior in the genus Boulenophrys, revealing complex mating rituals and sexual dimorphism in the montane toad Boulenophrys elongata.
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New Fly Species Redefine Neotropical Genus Armillipora
Entomologists have expanded the known boundaries of the Neotropical fly genus Armillipora by describing two new species and proposing a revised classification system that divides the group into two distinct lineages. Published in the journal Evolutionary Systematics, the study represents…
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New chromosome atlas maps the genetics of water scavenger beetles
More than four decades after a young lecturer at Royal Holloway College first coaxed readable chromosome preparations out of beetle embryos, an updated atlas of Helophorus chromosomes has arrived, doubling the number of species it covers and offering one of…
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Daniel Wu Fong, Biologist Who Proved Selection Shapes Cave Animals, Dies at 70
Cave biologist Daniel Wu Fong, whose decades of quantitative genetic and molecular work on the amphipod Gammarus minus demonstrated that natural selection drives regressive evolution in subterranean animals, died on April 25, 2025 at the age of 70. The cave biology community has…
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Three Hohenbuehelia mushroom species recorded in Pakistan for the first time
In the forests and gardens of Pakistan, a group of small, fan-shaped mushrooms has been quietly growing on decaying wood, largely unnoticed by science.
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Hidden lichens of the Italian Alps and Northern Apennines reveal hundreds of new records
A large survey combining new field collections and herbarium revisions reports 518 occurrences of 288 lichen taxa in the Italian Alps and Northern Apennines, including 33 species new to Italy and 255 new regional records.
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Costa Rica’s Marine Nematodes Remain Largely Unknown, Review Finds
A new review finds that only ten marine nematode species have ever been identified from Costa Rica, despite the phylum dominating meiofaunal communities along both coasts. Costa Rica's Marine Nematodes Remain Largely Unknown, Review Finds Subject of Research: Diversity and…
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Purple Guava Leaves Trace Their Color to a Molecular Switch Between Pigment Branches
Researchers have identified the metabolic and genetic basis of purple leaf coloration in guava by comparing flavonoid profiles and gene expression between purple- and green-leaved cultivars.