The scale of the Megaloceros horns is incredible (Zoology museum of the Jagellonian University). They grown them in a single year and then shed it, and repeated the cycle next year. How on Earth they acquired sufficient amount of minerals and nutrients?
By Greg Priest Read the full companion article in this quarter’s Journal of the History of Ideas. A new biography of Charles Darwin is coming out. Styled as a “radical reappraisal,” the book, by A.N. Wilson, condemns Darwin, accusing him... Continue Reading →
Okay, I put off watching the latest ZeFrank video because it seemed to be about honeybees, which are boring (sorry bee people), but it's actually an amazing journey through geometry, evo-devo, the other, cooler Hymenoptera such as wasps, solitary bees, and ants, the evolution of eusociality, "stigmergy" (a new one for me), and more!
#bugstodon #entomology #insects #bees #wasps #ants #EvolutionaryBiology #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Formicidae
IAP proteins play central roles in regulating apoptosis - Lopes et al. show that IAP expansion in animals has repeatedly emerged through lineage-specific duplication events
Goff et al. measure collateral fitness landscapes of TEM-1 β-lactamase in conditions expected to alter protein aggregation or stability, proposing that mutational destabilization is associated with deleterious collateral fitness effects.
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