Endosymbiosis refers to a remarkable biological process where one organism resides within another. This unique arrangement is ...

A keystone in an arch's crown secures the other stones in place. Keystone species play the same role in many ecological communities by maintaining the structure and integrity of the community.

Future Microbiol. 2014;9(5):683-695. Identification of the causative agent to species level from cultures based on morphological characteristics requires training; strains collected from patients ...

The fungi in black oncom, however, were dominated by a range of Rhizopus species that depended on where it was made. It also contained many bacteria. Tempeh, another ancient and popular Javanese ...

Such combined strategies may result in a species-specific diagnosis of the causative agent. [63,64] A detailed overview on so far published molecular tools is given in Table 2. The majority of the ...

This plant family comprises around 34,000 species, some of which are well-known, such as artichokes, ... Even Marine Animals in Untouched Habitats Are at Risk from Human Impacts Sep. 18 ...

The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...

The fungi in black oncom, however, were dominated by a range of Rhizopus species that depended on where it was made. It also ...

So many places on Earth still remain a mystery to us, even after all this time — but researchers are often discovering new species. Better access to genetic testing, as well as technological ...

In nature, species will sometimes form unexpectedly close bonds and work to their mutual benefit. Symbiotic relationships are the close associations formed between pairs of species. They come in a ...

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...