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Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (792+ words) PhD candidate in Biology, Lund University Lila Maladesky's PhD project is funded by the European Research Council Lund University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the colour of their…...
Songbirds swap colorful plumage genes across species lines among their evolutionary neighbors
3+ week, 6+ day ago (973+ words) Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State David Toews works for Pennsylvania State University. He receives funding from The National Science Foundation. Penn State provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. People typically think about evolution as a…...
Gene editing technology could be used to save species on the brink of extinction
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (722+ words) Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, University of East Anglia Cock Van Oosterhout receives funding from the Royal Society for conservation genomics work on threatened bird species in Mauritius, and a donation by the Colossal Foundation for conservation genomic research on the…...