Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 19, No. 3 (1986), pp. 221-232 (12 pages) During a two year study of the moorhen, Gallinula chloropus, a quarter of the nests found had two or more females ...

Behavior in eusocial insects likely reflects a long history of selection imposed by parasites and pathogens because the conditions of group living often favor the transmission of infection among ...

Today, 150 years after Darwin’s epochal “On the Origin of Species,” many questions about the molecular basis of evolution are still waiting for answers. How are signaling pathways changed by genes and ...

One of the most interesting topics discussed in my Ornithology class was about the “con artists” found in nature… Brood parasitism occurs when a female bird (the parasite) lays her eggs in the nest of ...

HYDERABAD: A genomic study by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Indian Institute of Science Education ...

Molecular biologists have decoded the genome of the Pristionchus pacificus nematode, thereby gaining insight into the evolution of parasitism. They have shown that the genome of the nematode consists ...

The blood fluke may be the ultimate parasite. This ingenious flatworm comes of age inside a tiny snail host before entering its real host—humans—directly through the skin and burrowing into the ...

IN these lectures the late Prof. Theobald Smith reviewed the knowledge and experience of nearly fifty years of fruitful devotion to research on infective disease in man and animals. The book contains ...

Avian brood parasitism is a fascinating reproductive strategy wherein parasitic birds, such as the common cuckoo, lay their eggs in the nests of other avian species. This deceptive tactic forces ...

As the planet’s most expansive ecosystem, the deep sea can be a tough place to find a mate. Though, scientists say, some deep-sea anglerfishes evolved a unique method of reproduction that ensures that ...