Tiny microbes, big ecological impact—our latest study reveals what’s happening on conifer leaves 🌲🧬

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Why sequence all vertebrate genomes? 🧬
💡 Vertebrate genomes can help answer complex questions — for example: how did speech evolve, and which genes govern longevity and cancer resistance in long-lived species like the Blue Whale?
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Scientists Are Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life

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How to publish your scientific results

and an informal Meet and Greet with the Biotropica Editorial Board.

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Periodic Mangrove Growth Induced by Water Salinity Fluctuations Under Tropical Monsoon Climate, Thailand Salinity fluctuations were influenced by monthly rainfall and geographical location in two monsoonal mangrove forests with different rainfall intensities in Thailand. Stem growth and leaf phenology o...

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Images capture the timeless beauty of America's ancient forests Photographer Mitch Epstein's years-long project highlights the majesty and vulnerability of old growth forests across the US

Photographer Mitch Epstein's years-long project highlights the majesty and vulnerability of old growth forests across the US

The nitroplast: A nitrogen-fixing organelle A bacterial endosymbiont of marine algae evolved to an organelle

Move over mitochondria, a new organelle called the nitroplast is here.

In a Science study last year, researchers reported that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga.

Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/49GjClc #ScienceMagArchives

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Differences in Plant–Pollinator Network Structure and Pollinator Importance Between a Continental and an Oceanic Island Community The oceanic island networks had higher network connectance, nestedness, and specialization than the continental island networks. Plant niche overlap was higher on the oceanic island than on the conti...

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The shocking discovery that our gut microbiome drives ageing

A new understanding of our relationship with our "friendly" gut microbes shows they actually have a dark side and help cause ageing. Here's how to fight back

www.oikosjournal.org/blog/call-pa...

First Evidence of Fluorescence in Bornean Terrestrial and Freshwater Crabs This study reports the first evidence of blue fluorescence in four species of terrestrial and freshwater crabs from Sarawak, Borneo. Fluorescence was observed in all examined individuals, with detail...

Fluorescing crabs?? Cool!!

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🧬 February's most-read Genetics paper looks at how #RNA travels between cells to control genes across generations #epigenetics: buff.ly/ulMGsBH

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An ESA member describes his poster to another attendee of the 2024 Annual Meeting. The background is full of other attendees observing poster presentations. Superimposed text reads "Inspire Solutions, submit your contributed talk or poster abstract by February 27"

Contributed abstracts due Thursday at 5:00 PM ET! #ESA2025 in Baltimore is themed *Ecology Is Everywhere* and we're excited about a large, diverse program covering ecology at micro and macro scales. Have your work be part of it! esa.org/baltimore202...

a young woman speaks at a lecture at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Long Beach. Superimposed text on the image reads "Inspire solutions: submit your contributed talk or poster abstract by February 27"

Funding applications available! ESA members who organize or present at #ESA2025 but lack institutional support to attend can apply for a registration and/or dependent care grant. Submit an application at the same time as your abstract -- both due 2/27! esa.org/baltimore202...

Partial recovery of primary rainforest bird communities in Amazonian secondary forests Secondary rainforest (S1, S2, S3) at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, near Manaus, Brazil, recovers much of the avifauna of primary forest (P1, P2, P3) after 31–36 years. Despite ...

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Seeing the Savanna Through the Trees: Vegetation Structure, Composition and Function Along a Forest‐Savanna Boundary in Cambodia In the seasonally dry landscapes of continental Southeast Asia, deciduous dipterocarp vegetation (DDF), which resembles savanna, and semi-evergreen forests (SEF) form patchy landscape mosaics, with a...

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Darwin Exhibition | American Museum of Natural History Did you know that for 21 years Darwin kept his theory secret? Learn more about this brilliant observer of nature and how he transformed our understanding of the living world.

The American Museum of Natural History's exhibit on Darwin. www.amnh.org/exhibitions/... #DarwinDay2025

Evolution 2025 Registration Evolution 2025 - the joint conference of the SSE, ASN, and SSB

Registration for Evolution 2025 is now open! Come join us virtually from May 29-30, and/or in-person in Athens, GA from June 20-24.

@sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025

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Perspectives: International Day of Women and Girls in Science Today we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To help commemorate this awareness day, this perspectives article showcases 6 women scientists from different counties that talk…

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (#IDWGS)! 👩‍🔬 🔬 🌍 #WomenInScience

Now more the ever, we value the importance of raising the profile of women and girls engaging with and contributing to science.

Join us at Itasca Biological Station this summer for Craft School

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