Biologists find regions of rice domestication
...and Thailand (Oryza sativa indica) and in areas in southern China (Oryza sativa japonica). A paper describing the research was published June 9, 2006, in the on-line issue of the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Science. "We look where the genetic signature of clusters on a haplotype tree (family...Harmful Algal Blooms monitored from space in Chile
...f annual losses to the 360 fish farms found in the southern region of Chile. They deplete the concentration of...culation patterns in the major aquaculture area in southern Chile. Aquaculture has become a capital-intensive industry in Chile, worth nearly 1 billion Euros a...Cornell researchers find serious fish virus in Northeast for first time
...ence River and in Irondequoit Bay, which is on the southern shore of Lake Ontario near Rochester, N.Y. VHSV was also found in a muskellunge from the St. Lawrence River in May. VHSV is classified as a reportable disease by the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE), which means it must be reported to OIE i...Liquid Jungle Lab environs -- home to five new species
... Panama form the steep and deeply faulted lands of southern Veraguas. Average rainfall is thought to be ~3500mm per year. Roughly 2,000 inhabitants subsist by fishing and livestock farming. Most of the area is accessible only by boat. Subsequent chapters offer literature reviews and photographs of higher p...Scientists to employ Arctic ice and polar bears to protect diversity of world's crops
...ly important threats to apple trees in central and southern Europe. In addition, many beloved apple varieties are susceptible to fire blight, which has become increasingly resistant to the two major antibiotic pesticides used to protect the trees. The disease reappeared in Italy in 2005 after six years of abs...Global patterns of geographic range sizes: A bird's eye view
...ound on islands and mountain ranges, mostly in the southern hemisphere. The researchers collated published da...defined as the difference between the northern and southern limits of the vector maps for each breeding range. Species richness was calculated by adding all the...A candidate gene for familial idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis identified
...The prevalence was two times higher in eastern and southern Savo (45/100 000 inhabitants) compared to the prevalence in Finland (16-18/100 000). The researchers identified multiplex families with IPF and noticed that familial IPF patients clustered within Savo and Carelia, the same areas with the high prev...Increased risk of hantavirus forecast for US southwest
...other institutions. They also warn that parts of southern Colo. and north-central N.M.--previously at low-risk for hantavirus compared to the Four Corners region--are at increased risk in 2006. The study is among the first to forecast the location and extent of an infectious disease outbreak. The foreca...Wild meerkats school their young
... of three to 40 individuals in the arid regions of southern Africa. Each group includes a dominant male and female who produce over 80% of the pups. However, helpers (meerkats older than 90 days) and parents of both sexes aid in rearing the young. Pups (meerkats younger than 90 days of age) are initially...It's 2025. Where do most people live?
...obal warming. The map also projects that much of southern and Eastern Europe and Japan will experience significant and wide-spread population decline. Surprisingly, the map further suggests small areas of projected population decline for many regions in which they might be least expected: sub-Saharan Africa...Pine plantations may be one culprit in increasing carbon dioxide levels
...- The increasing number of pine plantations in the southern United States could contribute to a rise in carbon...sissippi and that the results can apply across the southern United States, suggesting that carbon dioxide emissions could be as much as four times higher. The...Invasive plants prefer disturbance in exotic regions over home regions
...chers conducted their research over three years in southern Turkey, where the weed is native, and in California and central Argentina, two regions where the weed is non-native and remarkably abundant. Their findings, published in the August issue of The American Naturalist, question the assumption that distur...Mosquito spray increases toxicity of pyrethroids in creek, study finds
...third night's application of the pesticide. In the southern creeks, samples were collected on Aug. 14, six days before the first application, and Aug. 22, about 10 hours after the second night's application. The insecticide contained a mixture of pyrethrin, a natural pesticide found in a type of chrysanthem...Gene variations may increase stroke risk for younger women
...re from Maryland, Washington D.C., and portions of southern Pennsylvania and western Delaware. The Stroke Prevention in Young Women study also provided the researchers with a control group for comparison purposes that consisted of women who had not suffered a stroke. The new study also associated the geneti...The Midas Bug -- the bacterial alchemy of gold
...rom the Tomakin Park and Hit or Miss gold mines in southern New South Wales and northern Queensland, respectively, led to a series of discoveries, which showed that specific bacteria present on these gold grains precipitate gold from solution. "The origin of secondary gold grains is a controversial topic th...Ecosystem services and invasive species
...and at the wildland-urban interface on Tennessee's southern Cumberland Plateau. Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 8 11:30 AM, Chickasaw, Cook Convention Center The southern Cumberland Plateau supports some of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, but m...Case Western Reserve University paleontologist discovers South American mammal fossils
...nd a hare which once roamed the Andes Mountains in southern Bolivia around 13 million years ago was discovered by Darin A. Croft, assistant professor of anatomy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a research associate at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. With Federico Anay...Mussels evolve quickly to defend against invasive crabs
...native to the northern above mid-coast Maine and southern New England to both Carcinus and the Hemigrapsus. ...posed to waterborne cues of Carcinus, but only the southern mussels Freeman describes them as "more worldly" expressed inducible shell thickening in the prese...Biological pest control becomes an economic reality
...any, Bio-Bee Sde Eliyahu in Israel. A northern and southern European collaboration, Koppert from the Netherlands contributed its experience of northern European insect pests and its knowledge of technologies for coating nutrient and other liquids. New encapsulation technology Project partners used new e......imited by a lack of iron, the researchers say the southern ocean around Antarctica, the sub-arctic north Pacific below Alaska, and a huge area in the tropical Pacific centered on the equator. With their newfound knowledge of fluorescence, the scientists believe they now can use satellite imagery to identify ...