Fossils reveal direct link between global warming and genetic diversity in wildlife
... reduction. Pocket gophers, on the other hand, are subterranean rodents. They dig underground burrows that are very energetically expensive to build, and they kind of stick in one place." Subtle message These results have important implications for wildlife biology and conservation, Hadly observed. "There's a ...Pocket gophers serve as 'ecosystem engineers'
...American pocket gophers, entitled "Bioturbation by subterranean mammalian herbivores and its impact on ecosystems," at the annual meeting of the Ecology Society of America in Portland, Ore., the first week in August. Eric Seabloom of NCEAS is a co-author. Pocket gophers are named for their fur-lined pouches locat...Scientists question reports of massive ant supercolonies in California and Europe
...est insect colonies in the world - a 600-mile-long subterranean network of Argentine ants stretching from Northern California to the Mexican border. According to the researchers, this "supercolony" is made up of billions of closely related workers - all direct descendants of a small group of Argentine ants that w...Too good eyes for living below ground
...t in contrast to previous assumptions, the eyes of subterranean African mole-rats have a rather well-structured re...ision of our current views on the visual system of subterranean mammals. A remarkable number of mammals have turned to a completely or partially subterranean mode o...Brood X cicadas will cause limited damage to trees, yard plants across eastern U.S.
...cking tree roots, Brood X cicadas arise from their subterranean chambers sated with most of the energy they'll need to breed. Many adult cicadas don't feed at all. Rather, the damage cicadas cause occurs when females use a special, razor-sharp appendage to cut open branches and twigs, into which they insert their...New approach limits damage after heart attack and improves survival, say Scripps Research scientists
...line the body's blood vessels like bricks lining a subterranean tunnel. Through the work of Cheresh and other b...EGF. Just as removing mortar between bricks in a subterranean tunnel might cause the tunnel to become permeable to groundwater, blood vessels become leaky when th...Microbe's trick provides a template for willowy crystals
...recent years, scientists have unearthed a trove of subterranean microbial oddities, bugs that live and thrive in bizarre and extreme environments, and that accomplish remarkable feats to survive there. Now, the flooded depths of an abandoned iron mine in southwestern Wisconsin have yielded yet another novelty: mi...Soldier or worker what do the genes say?
...ults depending on the colony's needs. The eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes, exists in colonies, whose members share work and resources among themselves. Different castes of termite have evolved to do different jobs: worker termites dig tunnels and eat wood; soldier termites defend the colony...Catnip stops termites dead in their tracks
...ed States. In New Orleans, the aggressive Formosan subterranean termite now found in at least 11 states is believed to infest about 30 percent of the area's live oak trees and costs home owners more than $300 million a year. "One of the aims of looking at natural products is to find something that is less toxic...Antarctic ice seals life's fate
...chniques to search for signs of life locked in the subterranean ice on Mars, and provide a model for what lakes on Earth may have looked like during severe glacial periods. The findings were reported in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Dec. 16. A team of resea...Mole-rat Methuselahs push evolutionary theory of aging
... from sources of extrinsic mortality by inhabiting subterranean burrows in extremely hard soils. Protection is enhanced by cooperative defense against predators. As a result, naked mole-rats have evolved genetic traits that make them more resistant to senescence than similar-sized, solitary, surface-dwelling rode...Genistein-containing supplements may stop tamoxifen
...ts. Dietary isoflavones also can be found in both subterranean and red clover supplements. Isoflavones in soy are believed to be responsible for anti-cancer effects observed in numerous human and animal studies. For example, in Asia, where cancer rates are low, people often consume diets rich in soy products t...Bug vs. bug: scientists use microorganisms to target destructive termites
...s are developing a new weapon against the Formosan subterranean termite, a highly destructive species that has cau...on dollar national program to control the Formosan subterranean termite. Known for its voracious appetite and massive colonies up to 10 million in a single colony...Spinal cord injury and Alzheimers risk among topics at American Chemical Society meeting
...ganisms (bacteria and fungi) to fight the Formosan subterranean termite, a highly destructive species that has caused millions of dollars in damage to houses and trees in the United States. (I&EC 319, Thursday, April 11, 1:40 p.m., Convention Center, Room 304F, Level Three. Embargoed for 1:45 p.m., April 11 ....Children's book explores why animals stay home to help
...he nearly sightless and hairless creatures -- from subterranean tunnels in northeastern Africa to laboratories at Cornell -- could he study at close range an animal society where all the "helpers" are physically able to breed, but most never will. "For a juvenile naked mole-rat, sticking around the natal burrow ...Neuroscientist studies brains of bizarre-looking mammals
...er-sized mole to literally feel its way around its subterranean environment. Since coming to Vanderbilt, Catania has determined that the star-shaped nose is connected to the moles brain by some 100,000 nerve fibers, six times the number that connect the human hand and brain. By studying the development of the mol...Wood preservation: stopping termite destruction and making safer wood preservatives
...eeding and nesting habits of the infamous Formosan subterranean termite, which has destroyed homes in New Orleans and Hawaii and whose range of expansion now threatens San Diego. The researchers hope that their studies will lead to better termite control methods: • J. Kenneth Grace, Ph.D., of the...Microbial transport at Yellowstone: by land, sea or air?
...igin." The microbes may have been present in the subterranean source waters before percolating to the surface, or they may have hitched a ride on the steam arising from surrounding springs. To test the latter possibility, Bonheyo and his colleagues condensed steam from a nearby active vent on sheets of steriliz...Blind, naked mole-rats not the inbreeders biologists once thought
...ty lecturer in biology, studied 54 colonies of the subterranean rodents in Kenya since 1986. Braude has captured, tagged and released more than 8,000 mole- rats, in whole colonies -- some as large as 290 animals. Over a 12-year time span, Braude caught 21 of the tagged animals that had dispersed from their orig......vels of nitrates and pesticides. Other sources of subterranean water contamination include accidental spills, gasoline storage tank leaks and illegal dumping into sinkholes. Culver's co-authors are: Lawrence Master of The Nature Conservancy in Boston, Massachusetts; Mary Christman of the Department of Mat...