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TESTING THE USE OF CAMERA TRAPS IN TREE CANOPIES TO DOCUMENT ARBOREAL SPECIES
The Western Ghats rainforests harbor many elusive and rarely spotted species such as the Nilgiri Marten and the Malabar Spiny Dormouse among many others. However, information on such elusive or rare species are limited, making it difficult for scientists and researchers to study and conserve them.
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Shifting the Balance
How mutation spectra reversals increase the odds of evolutionary success
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Alternative fuel for string-shaped motors in cells
Researchers from Bangalore and Dresden discover a unique two-component molecular motor that uses a kind of renewable chemical energy to pull vesicles toward membrane-bound organelles. -
Growing, fast and slow
Why are there so many tRNA and rRNA copies in bacterial genomes?Parth K Raval, Wing Yui Ngan, Jenna Gallie and Deepa Agashe look at the fitness costs and benefits of redundancy in the bacterial translation machinery in their latest paper published in eLife journal. -
THE ART OF SUBTERFUGE
HOW BUTTERFLY COMMUNITIES EVOLVE INTO A GAME OF WARNING AND DECEIPT!
Students from Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte's Biodiversity Lab have discovered some secrets of a long evolutionary game through which butterflies come to warn, fool and escape their predators using traits such as wing colour patterns and flight
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Yeast, vesicles and genome duplication – A model for understanding eukaryotic evolution
Researchers at NCBS gain key insights into the role of whole genome duplication in the evolution of the vesicle trafficking system
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New hypothesis for evolution of different species!
Rate of brain development and changes in neurochemicals can lead to the formation of new species.
