Revolutionary genomics project launched
...genomics research. Today and tomorrow, recruitment ads for the first new Genome Center faculty members will appear in the journals Nature and Science. The new positions include the center director, a chair of medical pharmacology and toxicology, an associate director of bioinformatics and two positions ...Parasitic cowbirds thrive with a less ruthless strategy than cuckoos
...hy don't cowbirds kill their nestmates?" He placed ads in local newspapers in search of backyard nests of the Eastern phoebe (Sayornis phoebe), a migrant flycatcher that is a common host of the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater). From nearly 100 responses, he and his colleagues found 81 phoebe nests w...