Ulrich K Schliewen,Barbara Klee
Ulrich K Schliewen
BACKGROUND: Traditionally the rapid origin of megadiverse species flocks of extremely closely related species is explained by the combinatory action of three factors: Disruptive natural selection, disruptive sexual selection and partial iso...
Asa Berggren,Juha Merilä
Asa Berggren
BACKGROUND: The colour of animals' skin, fur, feathers or cuticula has been estimated in a large number of studies. The methods used to do so are diverse, with some being costly and not available to all researchers. In a study to measure pl...
Jürgen Heinze,Diethard Tautz
Jürgen Heinze
As a biological discipline, zoology has one of the longest histories. Today it occasionally appears as though, due to the rapid expansion of life sciences, zoology has been replaced by more or less independent sub-disciplines amongst which ...
Clash of kingdoms or why Drosophila larvae positively respond to fungal competitors [0.03%]
王国之争：果蝇幼虫为何会对真菌竞争对手产生正向反应
Marko Rohlfs
Marko Rohlfs
BACKGROUND: Competition with filamentous fungi has been demonstrated to be an important cause of mortality for the vast group of insects that depend on ephemeral resources (e.g. fruit, dung, carrion). Recent data suggest that the well-known...