Protected sex: study records grouper mating calls in marine managed areas
A couple of months each year, groupers (Epinephelidae) gather in the hundreds and even thousands to mate under the full ...
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Lizards may miss out on mating opportunities and pick partners more hastily under warming temperatures
Lizards may miss out on mating opportunities and pick partners more hastily under warming temperatures Credit: Nicola Rossi, CC-BY 4.0 ...
Boy fly meets girl fly meets AI: Training an AI to recognize fly mating identifies a gene for mating positions
A research group at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University in Japan has used artificial intelligence to determine that ...
What constitutes a paradigm shift? An olive shrub’s mating system as a case study of Kuhn’s theory
Philosopher Thomas Kuhn’s influential theory of how scientific knowledge is built introduced the term “paradigm shift” to explain a transformation ...
Air pollution impairs successful mating of flies
Insect sexual communication relies to a significant extent on pheromones, chemical attractants that specifically allow males and females of a ...
Sex changes the biological clock of female fruit flies, through a “sex peptide” which is transferred from the male during mating
Sex changes the biological clock of female fruit flies, through a "sex peptide" which is transferred from the male during ...
News tips from UCLA Health: New hope for deadly brain cancer; Mating patterns vs genetics; Do housing interventions improve health? Air pollution and neurodegenerative disease
UCLA Health Tip Sheet Nov. 28, 2022 Below is a brief roundup of news and story ideas from the experts ...
Cross-trait assortative mating may bias genetic correlations and pleiotropic effects
Some observed genetic correlations between human traits can be explained by cross-trait assortative mating – an individual’s tendency to choose ...
Observing different mating tactics in the Japanese scorpionfly
Owing to the high competition and the prevalence of natural selection, many male insects must develop alternative tactics to mate ...
When male buddies become less important than female mating partners
Male friends may provide emotional support; they can help in the defense of females against rivals or the acquisition of ...
Fruit flies prioritize mating over survival
Fruit flies continue to mate with each other even when infected with deadly pathogens – reveals a study by researchers ...
Fossil discovery reveals that trilobites had clasper-like limbs used for mating
Boulder, Colo., USA: Thanks to their easily fossilized exoskeleton, trilobites largely dominate the fossil record of early complex animal life. ...
Clasper appendages discovered in mid-Cambrian trilobite show horseshoe crab-like mating behavior
Fossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their environment, and where to place them ...
Mosquitoes’ mating game discovery provides new clues to combat malaria
Male mosquitoes beat their wings faster when swarming at sunset to better detect females and increase their chance of reproducing, ...
Dopamine plays key role in songbird mating
In humans, the dopamine system has been tied to rewards and pleasurable sensations. As well as to memory and learning. ...
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Ohio State survey finds Americans struggle to maintain healthy habits during the holiday season
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Investigation of degradation mechanism for all-solid-state batteries takes another step toward commercialization
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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Needle-free ultrasound vaccine delivery #Acoustics23
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