PROF. RUGGLES GATES introduces hybridity with chromosome incompatibility as a possible source of polyploid series in plant genera. In my note I deliberately refrained from referring to this ...

J. W. Heslop Harrison (NATURE, January 9, p. 50) that he has found a single pair of sex chromosomes in certain polyploid species of Salix will, if confirmed, add to our knowledge of sex ...

Algae don't get the credit or attention they deserve. They are responsible for much of the oxygen we breathe, play pivotal ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

Feb. 25, 2025 — An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert -- and researchers have ...

Effect of Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens L.) on Growth Performance, Carcass Characteristics, Meat Quality, and Caecal Microbiota in Broiler Chickens ...

Narrated by a horse, "Black Beauty" encouraged readers see the world from an animal's point of view. "The story of 'Black Beauty' is about coming home, and feeling free and safe, and so ...

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A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

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Other isolated areas of Africa, southern Europe, and Asia show an abundance of bees and bee species. Like most other plants and animals, bees are not found in Antarctica. For one thing, it is far too ...