Perhaps you’d also like to believe that humans are more complex than a worm that is used precisely for its simplicity. For ...

In a succession of studies published this week and last month in the journals PeerJ and Zootaxa, researchers at Hawai'i ...

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health.

The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of the most widely recognized examples of symbiosis. Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how anemonefish can live safely among sea ...

The map contains the most complete classification of essential genes in any Plasmodium species and can be used to identify ...

The management of Leishmania donova ni (LD), responsible for fatal visceral leishmaniasis (VL), faces increasing challenges due to rising drug-unresponsiveness, leading to increasing treatment ...

Researchers at an Auburn University lab collected a mole-like animal that was found with a new species of henipavirus named after the Alabama town where the specimen came from, according to the ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...

In this report we describe the preparation and evaluation of the antimalarial and antitrypanosomal activities of known and new derivatives of betulinic acid and some kaurene and beyerene tetracyclic ...

From venomous spines to spike-covered genitalia, creatures around the world have unique features that set them apart.

An alien bird species has landed in large parts of northern Italy, putting local wildlife at risk. The African sacred ibis is an invasive species that is thought to have invaded after it escaped ...