Bound by blood
Vampire bat bonding persists from the lab to the wild
October 31, 2019
Bats moved from a captive colony back to a tree stayed with their friends.
Bats moved from a captive colony back to a tree stayed with their friends.
Hubert Szczygieł recently arrived at STRI in Panama and is already becoming one of Gamboa’s most awesome natural historians.
Unrelated butterflies may have the same wing patterns. These patterns warn off predators and help suitors find the right mate. But if wing patterns in each species evolved the same way, knocking out an important gene should have the same effect in both. Carolina Concha and her team discovered that knocking out the WntA gene results in different effects in co-mimics, so the two species evolved the same pattern via different pathways.
A unique project, integrating river and oceanic data, aims to shed light onto the drivers of marine hypoxia