Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

The Appendices of the Convention provide the lists of wild species that are protected by the Convention. In the introductory text here we should add : Appendix I includes wild flora species and ...

Biologists have now discovered a widespread and relatively abundant bacterial phylum, named CSP1-3, in deep soils and evaluated its phylogeny, ecology, metabolism, and evolutionary history. “The ...

This finding establishes the phylum Porifera (sponges ... lithistid sponges, Calathium, and echinoderms. These reef ecosystems exhibit remarkable ecological complexity—comparable to those ...

In 1887 he entered the Department of Geology in the British Museum (Natural History), where his care was chiefly the fossil echinoderms, and notably the crinoids. In 1892 he gained the Rolleston ...

For brittle stars, a class of echinoderms that dominate the megabenthos in various marine systems due to their often large populations, including those on Arctic soft bottom shelves, growth and ...

Mammals are a quite well known group, however estimates for the numbers of described species still vary considerably, ranging from 4 300 in Biodiversity: the UK Action Plan (Anon. 1994), through 4 630 ...

By analysing the genomes of invertebrate animals, they discovered genes encoding bombesin-like neurohormones in the common starfish (Asterias rubens) and other echinoderms, such as sea urchins and ...

Srivastava noted that studying this rearrangement can provide important insights about the role of this gene cluster in echinoderms. “Hox genes seem to have a lot of constraint across evolution,” said ...

Hormones are evolutionarily ancient regulators of physiology and behaviour across the animal kingdom. Due to their unique physiology and phylogenetic relationship to other animals, starfish and other ...

Endemism is high in some groups. For example, 41.3% of the chordates are endemic (including 87% of mammals, 45% of birds, 93% of reptiles, 94% of frogs) and some 92% of the vascular plants. Nationally ...