A new study led by Prof. Tan Zhiliang from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Passiflora or passion flower is a genus of more than 550 species which are members of the Passifloraceae family. The genus, which contains vines, lianas, shrubs and trees, is predominantly distributed ...

2009) with condensed partial inflorescences. All flowers are formed in a continuous ontogenetic (developmental) series as found in regular racemes of other members of the bean family. The meristem of ...

A new study led by Prof. TAN Zhiliang from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

In squids, autogenic photophores probably arose in a pelagic common ancestor and eventually diversified considerably in both morphology and position. In octopods, on the other hand, it appears that ...

Innate immunity has a long phylogenetic history, encompassing species as diverse as sea anemones, insects and mammals. By contrast, adaptive immunity, which involves lymphocyte-like cells and the ...

Sponges host dense and diverse communities of microbes (known as the microbiome) beneficial for the host nutrition and defense. Symbionts in turn receive shelter and metabolites from the sponge host, ...