Lex talionis
Punishment enforces cooperation in the fig-wasp mutualism: The exception proves the rule
Agosto 02, 2021
Mutually beneficial relationships are common, but what happens when one partner stops enforcing the other’s good behavior?
Mutually beneficial relationships are common, but what happens when one partner stops enforcing the other’s good behavior?
Join us to explore a few examples showcasing the spectrum of relationships among tropical organisms and their consequences from the genome to the global level. How does being in relationship change with time and what triggers tipping points that radically change the partners’ lives?
A disrupted mutualism sheds light on the dark web underneath the forest floor.
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Celebrating International Bat Week, come learn about real vampires!
My colleagues and I bring field-collected leaf beetles (principally Cassidinae sensu lato) into the lab to more carefully observe and photograph feeding behavior and to archive the various immature stages for systematic morphological study. Insects are labeled and stored in ethanol at -20C and...
New fossil mammals in Caribbean Panama suggest ongoing marine interchange during the final stages of formation of the isthmus.
The first winner of the D. Ross Robertson Postdoctoral Fellowship for Field Studies on Neotropical Reef Fishes, Floriane Coulmance, tests a new, underwater camera system to study the connection between hamlet color patterns and genetics in fish from four countries around the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
Avoiding predators at all costs.
Paleontologists discover possible DNA remains in fossil turtle that lived 6 million years ago in Panama, where continents collide