This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Microbes must adapt to the presence of other species, but it can be difficult to recreate the natural context for these interactions in the ...

Nitrogen is essential for all plants and animals, but despite being surrounded by it—the element constitutes 79% of air on earth—only a few bacteria can absorb it directly from the environment. All ...

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular ...

Takema Fukatsu (Prime Senior Researcher and Leader of Symbiotic Evolution and Biological Functions Research Group) of the Bioproduction Research Institute (BPRI; Director: Tomohiro Tamura), the ...

Symbiotic relationsandrange ofhost usage are prominent in coral reefs andcrucial to the stability of such systems. In order to explain how symbiotic relations are established and evolve, we used ...

A laboratory evolution experiment involving squids and bioluminescent bacteria sheds light on the origins of bacterial symbiosis. Hawaiian bobtail squid and its light organ (1). Bacteria can be our ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores. Leaf beetles can be found to feed on ...

Takema Fukatsu (Prime Senior Researcher and Leader of Symbiotic Evolution and Biological Functions Research Group) of the Bioproduction Research Institute and collaborators have analyzed the ...