August 2011
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Movement and function of the pectoral fins of the larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) during slow swimming. Green MH, Ho RK, Hale ME. J Exp Biol. 2011 Sep 15;214(Pt 18):3111-3123.
95% of biology is quantification of cuteness. Take, for instance, the adorable little larval zebrafish. This munchkin is less than a few millimeters in length, has massive eyeballs that take up most of its pudgy face, and...
Integration of Nonphaselocked Exteroceptive...
For some scientists, banal situations can offer profound things to wonder about. Take for example flight in insects. When an insect is flying and a gust wind throws it off course, it has the ability to steer itself back on track. Of all the natural phenomena out there, this might not strike you as far-reaching to contemplate. But when you think about what the nervous system has to do in order to...
Far Infra-red Emission and Detection by...
Before the discovery of pheromones, it wasn’t obvious to some biologists how a female moth could attract a male from great distances in the dark. Some correctly believed that the attractant was chemical, while others posited more eccentric explanations. Entomologist Philip Callahan was a notable figure in the latter group.
Callahan hypothesized that the aphrodisiac signal in moths is in the form...
WatchSiebert, S., Robinson, M. D., Tintori, S. C., Goetz, F., Helm, R. R., Smith, S. A., Shaner, N., et al. (2011). Differential Gene Expression in the Siphonophore Nanomia bijuga (Cnidaria) Assessed with Multiple Next-Generation Sequencing Workflows. (J. Jaeger, Ed.)PLoS ONE, 6(7), e22953. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022953.g007
Some sick papes walk right up, look you in the eye, and say, “How do...
