Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and Kiel University (CAU) led by Professor Sebastian Fraune use the example of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis to investigate the ...

Overall Count and Share for 'Communication Molecules and Adaptation of Micro-organisms (MCAM)' based on the 12-month time frame mentioned above. Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

A fundamental prerequisite for life on earth is the ability of living organisms to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

April 20 (UPI) --Scientists have adapted an optics technique used by astronomers to render biological processes at both the cellular and sub-cellular level in unprecedented detail. Researchers at the ...

In the heart of the scorching desert of Death Valley in California, a modest plant defies the laws of nature by thriving where most living organisms wouldn't survive. This species, ...

Long before the appearance of plants or animals, primitive multicellular organisms had developed an effective strategy to survive arsenic, a notoriously deadly poison. A recent study reveals that ...

As the scientific distinction between climate and weather suggests, knowledge about climate is supposed to be beyond indigenous peoples' everyday experience of the environment in that it requires a ...

From a huge spread of honey fungus in Oregon to a gigantic grove of aspen trees with a single root system in Utah, the world is home to some objectively large living organisms. And thanks to the U.S.

A research team has now shown for the first time where and how potassium is sensed in the root and which signalling pathways coordinate the adaptation of root growth and potassium uptake to maintain ...