Milkweed has found a new strategy in its epic evolutionary battle with monarch butterflies: structurally upgrading its toxins to outmaneuver monarchs' resistance.

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Chemical defenses are fundamental in organismal biology and widely used in medicine and agriculture. Plant defense chemistry evolves in response to...

Modified metal-organic framework glows when it captures perfluorooctanoic acid

Phenotypic plasticity occurs when a genotype can produce more than one phenotype under different environmental conditions. Genetic accommodation allows plastic phenotypes to be tuned to new environmen...

Researchers have mapped the chemical pathway for 4-vinylanisole that causes locusts to swarm and figured out how to inhibit it

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Open letter in <i>Science</i> says federal policy decisions ‘threaten the strength of the US research enterprise’

Biofluorescence is widespread in fishes. Here, the authors compile data on biofluorescence presence across teleost fishes and demonstrate that it may have originally evolved in eels 112 million years ...

The metabolism of ergosterol shapes this lipid to allow the formation of fluid membrane domains in yeast cells.

Podcast Episode · Voyage to the Wild · 22/04/2025 · 21m

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

Background: With their charismatic nighttime flashes, fireflies are a classic organismal system for studying visual mating signal evolution. However, across their diversity, fireflies employ a variety...

Dogs are great at detecting things that are hard for humans to smell. But we don’t always know which chemicals are responsible for the scents that our four-l...

Get to know more about Dr. Baskin's work and career in this exclusive interview.

Although crop leaf traits associated with acquisitive life strategies might largely be the result of inherence from their wild progenitors, more research is still needed to understand the roles that g...

Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...

It is already known that endophytic fungi can influence plant defence against natural enemies such as herbivorous insects. However, our understanding of the underlying mechanisms is still limited. We...

It's official. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust's national bumblebee monitoring scheme BeeWalk reveals 2024 worst year for bumblebees since records began.