Careful Honeybee Breeding Combats Tracheal Mite Pests
... from otherhives invade these weakened colonies to steal honey, and they carry trachealmites back with them.” Since the 1980s, bees in the United States have begun to develop theirown resistance -- slowly. Cobey said the process normally takes decades. “What we’re trying to do i......ument this phenomenon in nature. Some male fishes steal eggs from another nest, perhaps "priming the pump" for spawning by their own mates. This amazing behavior was genetically documented in the euphoniously named fifteen-spine stickleback. Egg thievery, Avise notes, might seem to be counterproductive be...Study provides new details of 'the birth of a virus'
...ly a small portion of their genetic programming to steal away from the cell where they were born and infect other cells. A study published this week by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute provides new details of how retroviruses make their escape and cloak themselves in the cell's membrane to avoid...Monogamy appears to be unnatural in the natural world
...do all kinds of natural nasty things - lie, cheat, steal and kill - but it doesn't mean those things are good." "The Myth of Monogamy" grew out of the authors' experiences as a zoologist and a psychiatrist. Lipton said psychiatrists often get disaster calls from clients who have found that their part...A little larceny comes naturally to Northwestern crows
...ow that is constantly looking for opportunities to steal food from other members of its flock. In fact, th...." "Crow vigilance is based on the opportunity to steal food," said James Ha. "The over-riding factor in their vigilance behavior is 'who's got food I can s...Tick saliva genes key to Lyme disease vaccine
...ir saliva, many of which have evolved to help them steal blood from a host animal by inactivating specific factors of the immune system," explained Mather. "Were attempting to identify, purify, and learn the function of these various proteins, because by disrupting their function we may be able to prevent......y cues but sometimes, it appears, other organs may steal the scene. In an article published in the January 2003 issue of Ecology Letters, scientists from the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique have found that the European dwarf palm, which grows on the Mediterranean coasts, attracts its specialised ...Crows alter their thieving behavior when dealing with kin or other birds
... distinctly alters its behavior when attempting to steal food from another crow, depending on whether or no...d from kin but becomes aggressive when it tries to steal a morsel from a non-related crow. This is believed to be the first time that such a behavior patter...When predators attack (each other)
NEW YORK (MAY 5, 2002) -- Lesson one: don't steal a bear's dinner. Last week, a wolverine - a ferocious member of the weasel family able to kill a caribou - learned this the hard way, according to a team of researchers from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Scientists Kristine...Rising ozone levels pose challenge to U.S. soybean production, scientists say
... doesn't sound like very much, but it is enough to steal profits away. Ozone levels are highly variable, depending on weather, so with this variability a 20 percent increase in ozone could occur next year." Ozone enters plants through stomata (tiny pores in the epidermal layer of leaves) and reduces photos...Snowy plover 'nursery' success earns Resource Stewardship Award
...eash dog walking, and scaring away crows trying to steal eggs from the nests to eat. On a beach where only a few years ago almost no beach-goers could identify a snowy plover, almost everyone walking the beach can now recognize the shorebird. According to Stroh, "The program helped beach goers understand...Scientists, lawyers discuss decision-making amid uncertainty
... and political debates are a shrill sideshow" that steal attention from the scientific consensus, he says. But Schneider doesn't just point his finger at the media. "Scientists invite such trouble unwittingly," he writes in a 2002 American Scientist article. "We often project the appearance of being locked...Discovery could lead to better treatment for cryptosporidum infections
...parasite depends on so-called "salvage enzymes" to steal away nutrients from its host to survive. This discovery provides new targets for drugs designed to treat victims of this parasitic disease for which there is currently no effective cure. The findings were published today in the Proceedings of the Na...Study: Mimicking viruses may provide new way to defeat them
...ch smaller, meaning they can grow a lot faster and steal away even more resources from the virus. Plus, they don't encode any virus proteins, which renders them powerless inside a cell, says Yin. Although the diversionary molecules do need resources from the cell to work, Yin clarifies, "they essentially s...Scientists discover new intricacies in how ulcer bugs stick to stomach
...ells lining the stomach wall, from which they also steal nutrients. BabA, one of several "adhesins" that help H. pylori stick to the stomach wall, binds to a carbohydrate structure known as the Lewis b antigen receptor. In humans with different blood types, this receptor either stands alone (blood ty...