The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is a highly invasive species and a vector of multiple pathogens including various viruses, such as chikungunya, dengue, and Zika. […]
Far from just being the product of our parents, scientists have now shown that widespread transfer of genes between species has radically changed the genomes of […]
Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tons of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other anthropods per year. The research […]
Researchers have identified a naturally occurring lipid — a waxy, fatty acid — used by a disease-causing bacterium to impair the host immune response and increase […]