Seems Darwin was right Filed work ahead.
Ecological Niche Dimensionality and the Evolutionary Diversification of Stick Insects: ”
by Patrik Nosil, Cristina P. Sandoval
The degree of phenotypic divergence and reproductive isolation between taxon pairs can vary quantitatively, and often increases as evolutionary divergence proceeds through various stages, from polymorphism to population differentiation, ecotype and race formation, [...]
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Hier Avant-hier matin Claire m’a demandé ce que je pense de la biologie synthétique. J’ai été un peu étonné, Claire n’étant pas du genre ni à s’intéresser à ce genre de sujets, ni à me causer avant que j’ai fini mon premier café, mais je me suis abstenu de lui demander d’où venait ce soudain [...]
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Posted in GMO, ecology on janvier 15, 2008 | Aucun commentaire »
Fighting Pollution The Poplar Way: Trees To Clean Up Indiana Site: “ScienceDaily (Jan. 15, 200 - Purdue University researchers are collaborating with Chrysler LLC in a project to use poplar trees to eliminate pollutants from a contaminated site in north-central Indiana.”
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Sympatric speciation by allochrony in a seabird
V. L. Friesen, A. L. Smith, E. Gómez-Díaz, M. Bolton, R. W. Furness, J. González-Solís, and L. R. Monteiro
PNAS | November 20, 2007 | vol. 104 | no. 47 | 18589-18594
The importance of sympatric speciation (the evolution of reproductive isolation between codistributed populations) in generating biodiversity is highly controversial. [...]
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Posted in ecology on janvier 8, 2008 | Aucun commentaire »
No Convincing Evidence For Decline In Tropical Forests: “Claims that tropical forests are declining cannot be backed up by hard evidence, according to new research from the University of Leeds.”
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