... , the hotness in chili peppers has always been something of an evolutionary mystery. A plant creates fruit in order ... hot, said University of Florida zoology professor and evolutionary ecologist Douglas Levey. But according to new research ...
... long ago for scientists to observe the transition. However, Tia-Lynn Ashman, a plant evolutionary ecologist in the Department of Biological Sciences in Pitt ...
... major cause for biodiversity may be biodiversity itself, says evolutionary ecologist Andrew Forbes of the University of California ... that the wasp D. alloeum is undergoing the same evolutionary changes. "The research shows the process of speciation ...
... set of resources. However, specialization doesn't come without costs. "A lot of evolutionary ecologists have pondered the advantages of being a specialist, and there are presumably ...
... predators and form the basis of economically significant commercial fisheries," said Dr Sven Thatje, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean ...
... of researchers led by Dr. Michael Tobler, an evolutionary ecologist at Oklahoma State University, and Dr ... activity." Rosenthal contends that the idea of imposing evolutionary divergence on a species at an extremely localized spatial ...
... PhysOrg.com) -- Evolutionary ecologists Michael Coslovsky and Heinz Richner of the University of Bern in Switzerland, have published a study in Functional ...
Evolutionary ecologist Claire Spottiswoode studies how birds are learning to fight off parasite species ... for humans in our battle with pathogens?Claire Spottiswoode is an evolutionary biologist studying "arms races" in nature ...
... is a fundamental problem that goes far back in evolutionary history and is dealt with by creatures that don't ... threshold, Platt said. This all fits with a 1976 theory by evolutionary ecologist Eric Charnov, called the Marginal ...
... Series in Artemia Franciscana and published in Evolution, evolutionary ecologist Nicolas Rode from the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology looked at the sexual behavior of the sea monkey ...
... through its gills and skin," says Dr Ord, who is an evolutionary ecologist with a special interest in animal behaviour ... or entirely aquatic. Remarkably, representatives of all these types can be found on or around Guam, making it a unique evolutionary laboratory ...
... Zebra Finch males particularly attractive. A Swiss-Australian research team lead by evolutionary ecologists at the University of Zurich has challenged the theory ...
... Foundation to continue his work in Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico, with Valeria Souza, a microbial evolutionary ecologist with National Autonomous University of Mexico ...
... force behind the rare phenomenon in insects of large males and small females. This is what evolutionary ecologists discovered when they compared North American ...
... has delayed the animals' emergence from hibernation by 10 days over the last 20 years. U of A Evolutionary Ecologist Jeff Lane explained that Columbian ...