Science news articles about 'evolutionary pathway'

  • Platypus genome unravels mysteries of mammalian evolution

    ... -defensins. Interestingly, this finding mirrors an independent evolutionary pathway in reptiles. "Snake venom crotamines ... , G.J. Conservation of small RNA pathways in platypus. Genome Res. doi:10. ...
  • Living fossils have long- and short-term memory

    ... complex central nervous systems; which makes Nautilus ideally suited to discover the ‘evolutionary pathways that led to the development of the complex coleoid [soft bodied cephalopod] brains’ say ...
  • Feather color is more than skin deep

    ... for conversion of carotenoids. Understanding inter-specific variation in mechanisms of color production may be the key to comprehend the different evolutionary pathways involved in color signaling."
  • At long last, how plants make eggs

    ... pathway that flowering plants took 135 million years ago when they split off from gymnosperms, ... team have opened the door to new work into the evolutionary pathway between these two major plant groups ...
  • Long-standing Mystery Of How Plants Make Eggs Solved

    ... acting as a morphogen and offers tantalizing new insights into the evolutionary pathway that flowering plants took 135 million years ago when they split off from gymnosperms.
  • Dynasty: Influenza virus in 1918 and today

    ... part to advances in medicine and public health measures, he says, but this trend also may reflect viral evolutionary pathways that favor increases in the virus's ability to spread from host to host, ...
  • Genetic sex determination let ancient species adapt to ocean life

    ... of extinct sea creatures suggests that the transition from egg-laying to live-born young opened up evolutionary pathways that allowed these ancient species to adapt to and thrive in open oceans. The ...
  • Evolution of extinct sea creatures studied

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. and British scientists say they've determined the transition of extinct sea creatures from egg-laying to live-born opened up evolutionary pathways.
  • Chinese and American paleontologists discover a new Mesozoic mammal

    ... of the jaw hinge in their reptilian relatives. Paleontologists have long attempted to understand the evolutionary pathway via which these precursor jawbones became separated from the jaw and moved ...
  • New insights into the physiology of cockroaches

    ... with very specialized diets, such as aphids. These studies show that, by completely independent evolutionary pathways and most likely due to their omnivorous habits, cockroaches and ants have arrived ...

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