She said: "This is exciting to us because it confirms that the genes and gene families that we identified using our comparative genomics approach really do cause an animal to have a woolly coat ...

These data will be a resource that is of value to behavioral neuroscientists. Animals display an astounding variety of behaviors that they perform instinctively without needing prior experience. But ...

Beyond arthropods and mollusks, IgSF also functions in other animal phyla, such as protozoa, plankton ... evolutionary trajectory of immunity and their influence on subsequent higher organisms. The ...

Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed animal owner. “I’ve always had them growing up, I had a big fantasy life with ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the animal kingdom's most curious youngsters. Sumatran tigersPanthera tigris ...

Burdon-Jones (1998) stated that there are 94 described species in 16 genera in the world, with many more undescribed, and 12 species in seven genera in Australia. Cameron (2008) lists 108 species for ...

Nematodes are one of the largest groups of animals on the planet. Many of them are major pathogens of humans, animals and plants, and cause destructive diseases and socioeconomic losses worldwide.

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