Where have all the butterflies gone?
...alifornia butterflies, including the large marble, sooty wing, Lorquin's admiral and the mourning cloak, suffered major declines in 1999 and have not yet recovered, Shapiro said. Shapiro compared the decline of the butterflies to similar declines in populations of frogs and other amphibians. While there ma...HIV-1's high virulence might be an accident of evolution
...at infects long-tailed relatives of baboons called sooty mangabeys. While HIV and SIV strains all infect T cells that are critical for a functional immune response, SIV usually does so without causing serious damage in their natural primate hosts. Of more than 30 SIVs that have been molecularly characteri...Study documents marathon migrations of sooty shearwaters
Santa Cruz, CA -- Every summer, millions of sooty shearwaters arrive off the coast of California, th...nsist of seabirds. Scientists have long known that sooty shearwaters breed in New Zealand and Chile and migrate to feeding grounds in the Northern Hemisphere...Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
...: Jeremy Pickett-Heaps) Farthest Tracking tagged sooty shearwaters by satellite, Census researchers mapped the small birds 70,000 km search for food in a giant figure eight over the Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand via Polynesia to foraging grounds in Japan, Alaska and California and then back. Making th......pathogens with an unusual name that comes from the sooty black masses of spores that they form on infected ...t busy studying fungi for a long time keeping the sooty black smut and the smell of rotting fish from Canada's wheat fields. ...