In the tropics, many plant species benefit from hosting ant “partners” which protect them from herbivores in return for food and shelter.
The publication describes use of carabids as a surrogate for the detection of unintended environmental effects of GM crops during the general post-market environmental monitoring (PMEM). The surveillance is required by EU legislation and aims to identify risks that did not become evident during the pre-market risk assessment.
IDGF2 has similar overall homeostatic and protective effect as mammalian serum and chitinase-like glycoproteins recently associated with pathogenic processes related to inflammation, extracellular tissue remodeling, fibrosis and solid carcinomas.
A geneticist Lenka Bittová won a prestigious European reintegration fellowship for scientists returning after a long stay abroad. Last year she came back to the Czech Republic after twenty years in the US, where she worked as a scientist in biochemistry at several prestigious universities - University of Illinois, Stanford University, University of Wisconsin and the last five years she was a...
In this study, by combining behavioral and genetic approaches, we provide the first unambiguous evidence to our knowledge of a Cry-dependent sensitivity to the direction of GMF in two cockroach species.
The cryopreservation techniques proposed for embryos of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are not yet ready for practical use. Alternative methods for long-term storage of D. melanogaster strains, although urgently needed, do not exist.
Publication in Chromosoma supports the hypothesis that the enormous longevity of honeybee queens is associated with high activity of telomerase
Species diversity changes with elevation, but differently for each plant and animal taxon. New model combining environmental preferences of organisms, changing with the environment and with physical limitations of habitable areas, caused by the fact that the mountains tend to be spiky, can predict the actual distribution of species remarkably well.
Publication in Biomacromolecules describes five sericin genes from a wild silkmoth, A. yamamai; provides whole gene structures and assigns them to major sericin proteins extracted from A. yamamai cocoon.
The debate between two conflicting hypotheses on the origin of tropical species may no longer be reasonable. Tropical hyperdiversity is likely the result of complex evolutionary history, and no single age nor single event seem alone to be important ...
