Lost forest yields several new species
...nts, leopards, several types of monkey including a subspecies of colobus only found here, and others, although most of these large-bodied species were found at low densities, probably due to poaching. The survey also found a high diversity of birds, reptile, and amphibian species. The expedition may also yie...'The Man Who Saved The Sea Turtles'
...nts and animals. He described numerous species and subspecies that were new to science. However, he went on to teach biology in Honduras from 1945 to 1949. This gave him the perfect opportunity to study Central American wildlife -- and to encounter sea turtles, which became his lifes work. From a conservation...Strains of laboratory mice more varied than previously thought
...me has unexpected levels of variation within their subspecies origin. The common laboratory mouse is not what we thought it was, said coauthor Gary Churchill, Ph.D., a Jackson Laboratory senior staff scientist. Weve established that laboratory mice are derived almost entirely from a single subspecies, not thr...UCR biologist receives $1.75 million grant to study plant-threatening bacteria
...Nunney said. Among the North American varieties, subspecies fastidiosa , the one that causes Pierces disease, is found on grapes and almonds; subspecies sandyi on oleanders, day lilies, magnolias, and jacarandas; subspecies multiplex on almonds, bri...UF scientists discover new genus of frogmouth bird in Solomon Islands
...th." Originally, the bird was misclassified as a subspecies of the Australian Marbled Frogmouth, Podargus ocellatus. The blunder went undetected for decades, until a collecting trip led by Kratter in 1998 turned up a specimen on Isabel, a 1,500-square-mile island in the Solomons. Today, the only museum specim...Endangered shortnose sturgeon saved in Hudson River
...government currently protects 149 fish species and subspecies and a total of 1,311 species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. "Endangered and threatened U.S. fish outnumber mammals, reptiles, birds, etcetera," said Bain. Since 1966 when the federal government started identifying threatened species, only 16,...The new form of trypanosomiasis discovered in India stems from a deficiency in apolipoproteinL-1
...e destruction of the trypanosome. However, the two subspecies T. brucei rhodesiense and T. b. gambiense have, wi...e gene coding for the SRA protein, specific to the subspecies rhodesiense, was not detected in the trypanosome that had infected the Indian patient, as could be e...Technique quickly identifies bacteria for food safety, health care and homeland security
...ty acids, in the bacteria. "We can determine the subspecies and glean other information by looking at the pattern of chemicals making up the pathogen, a sort of fingerprint revealed by mass spectrometry," Cooks said. "Conventional wisdom says quick methods such as ours will not be highly chemically or biologi...Africa's least-known carnivore in Tanzania
...urnal. "These mongooses may represent a separate subspecies from the one that exists in Kenya," said Dr. De Luca of WCS' Tanzania Program. "Given the fragmentation and small sizes of the forest patches in which they live, full protection of nearby forests would improve conditions for conserving this species."...NASA ice images aid study of Pacific walrus arctic habitats
...c walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) is the only subspecies of walrus that inhabits U.S. waters. Native Alaskans rely on a bountiful walrus population for their food, clothing and shelter, and as a spiritual totem, making it an important part of Alaskas economy and cultural subsistence. Because the walrus is ...Research upsetting some notions about honey bees
...r the Advancement of Science, the four most common subspecies of honey bee originated in Africa and entered Euro...re is changing with the introduction of the fourth subspecies from Africa in 1990. The form that was Italian mixed with other strains has been crossbreeding with ...Wild gorillas carriers of a SIV virus close to the AIDS virus
...University of Montpellier 1, showed the chimpanzee subspecies living in the Congo Basin (2) to be the reservoir of HIV-1 virus group M, the source of the world pandemic and that of another, very rare variant, HIV-1 group N. However, the reservoir of the third HIV-1 group, group O which infects humans (3), remai...Out of Africa: Scientists uncover history of honey bee
...introductions of the western and northern European subspecies A. mellifera mellifera began in North America as e...owed by introductions of at least eight additional subspecies from different parts of Europe, the Near East and northern Africa. In 1956, a subspecies from the sa...Origins, spread of honeybees determined
...hich includes the widely cultivated Italian bee, a subspecies used extensively for agricultural pollination. These European subspecies are now breeding with Africanized bees in North and South America, and resulting in genome-level cha...Secrets revealed in sequencing of honey bee genome
...introductions of the western and northern European subspecies began in North America as early as 1622. In 1956, the African "killer" bee was introduced to Brazil in an attempt to increase honey production. Descendants of these African honey bees have spread northward and southward, hybridizing with and displaci...Study suggests evolutionary link between diet, brain size in orangutans
...kingly from Pongo pygmaeus morio, one of the three subspecies occupying the island of Borneo. The morio subspecies lives in the northeastern part of the island where soils are poorer, access to fruit is most iffy an...Asia's odd-ball antelope gets collared
...zakhstan, and Mongolia, but the genetically unique subspecies found only in Mongolia numbers perhaps less than 2,000. Ten thousand years ago saigas roamed from the northern Yukon and Alaska to England, but the species was lost from North America and Britain as climate and vegetation shifted. With the collapse...Use of stone hammers sheds light on geographic patterns of chimpanzee tool use
...h involve the most endangered and least-understood subspecies of chimpanzee, are reported by Dr. Bethan Morgan and Ekwoge Abwe of the Zoological Society of San Diego's Conservation and Research for Endangered Species (CRES) and appear in the August 22nd issue of the journal Current Biology, published by Cell Pr...Species unique to tidal marshes face threats
...teristics have led to the evolution of species and subspecies that are endemic (found nowhere else). These endemic species and subspecies, which seem to be largely restricted to North America, have adaptations that suit them to life in a harsh environment in which seed abundance is low, salinity is high, and fl...Discovery of genetic mutation in Florida beach mice suggests extinct mammoth had light and dark fur
... of the populations has resulted in eight distinct subspecies of beach mice, each with distinctive coat patterns...ir color. In laboratory mating of the different subspecies to produce genetic crosses, the UCSD scientists report in their paper that the variations of this ge...