9+ hour, 47+ min ago   (681+ words) Across the flooded fields and scrubby foothills of South Asia lives a frog that most people, including many biologists, would struggle to tell apart from its close relatives. The burrowing frog Sphaerotheca maskeyi, a medium-sized member of the family Dicroglossidae,…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (748+ words) In the world of biological pest control, few organisms are as commercially important as the entomopathogenic fungi of the genus Beauveria....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (530+ words) A human, an octopus, and a coral may appear to belong to entirely different worlds, yet their chromosomes preserve traces of a shared genomic past....

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1087+ words) Decoding Sumatra’s “King of the River”: First Complete Mitogenome of the Enigmatic Mahseer Traces an Ancient Maternal Line Through Sunken Worlds Deep in the fast-flowing headwaters of northern Sumatra glides a fish that local communities have revered for generations as…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (713+ words) In the most comprehensive survey of natural selection across our closest living relatives to date, an international team of researchers has mapped the genomic landscapes of adaptation in six great ape lineages, revealing new candidate genes tied to senses, immunity,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (594+ words) A new range-wide genetic study of the freshwater mussel Venustaconcha ellipsiformis has revealed how ancient glaciers, changing river systems, and limited dispersal have combined to shape the species’ genetic landscape across North America....

2+ week, 4+ min ago   (905+ words) From Glass Jar to Open Water: The First Complete Lab Recipe for Rescuing Poland’s Critically Endangered Pondweed In the quiet of a tissue culture laboratory in Szczecin, Poland, a rescue operation is underway, and every one of its patients fits…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (85+ words) One of the most basic assumptions in neuroscience data analysis is quietly being overturned. A new study published in the journal Neuroinformatics shows that two groups of neurons can appear to divide their labor in the brain for no reason…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (759+ words) Antarctic soils harbor microbes found nowhere else on Earth, revealing a hidden world of life uniquely adapted to the continent’s extreme conditions. A new study has found that there are microbes in Antarctica’s soil that don’t exist anywhere else on…...

7+ hour, 9+ min ago   (640+ words) The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has unveiled an ambitious new fellowship designed to reshape how the next generation of animal science professionals is trained. Known as F.U.S.E....