. All of these examples have one thing in common—exploiting the unique biological features of a special organism to address questions of general importance. These organisms aren’t being studied because they ar
The complexity of marine metabolomics is intrinsic to both the organisms and the environment that they inhabit. Marine organisms establish tight relationships in order to survive the harsh conditions of the marine environment. Thus, when designing an experiment, it is important to bear in mind that ...
terrestrial ice. As major emphasis has been placed on the cryosphere by the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report, this is a key time to understand the dynamics of these microbially-driven processes as well as whether there is a way to counteract the resulting n...
volcanoes are apart of their everyday life. Volcanoes may affect humans but they also affect other organisms. Depending on how big the eruption is, the magma from the volcanoes can spread and kill plant life and animals. “Mount St. Helens provides an example. The Washington Department of Gam...
as well as molecular toolkits and extensive collections of techniques and methods, accumulated over the years by legions of researchers. The development of these resources happened for model organisms because so many people were working on them, and because they were already so convenient. Why spend...
This change from predominant gametophyte to sporophyte was a major evolutionary advancement, which along with the development of vascular tissue facilitated the ultimate success of plants in a diversity of terrestrial habitats. In order to accomplish sexual reproduction, bryophyte gametophytes produce ...
And the theory of evolution suggests that, as environments change—and inevitably they do—some organisms will have characteristics that allow them to adapt to those changes successfully … characteristics that help these organisms develop and survive and reproduce. And when environments become more ...
While several cleaner fish removal experiments [6, 8, 9] show that reef fish can survive without access to cleaning organisms, our endocrine data indicate that they may not be as fit. And this view is supported by recent evidence that if removal experiments are conducted over periods of ...
as its relative change when the gene is deleted. Let us call genes whose deletion reduce fitness potential by more than 3% essential, and the remaining genes nonessential. We investigated contributions of genes to fitness potentials in a number of evolved organisms, with highly consistent results....
in the organisms environment via "learning" (see article below) -or to put it another way, take most species out of their natural habitat and they tend to go extinct but throw a group of even ancient humans nearly anywhere on land on the planet and they just may survive-, is ...