Magical wildlife of Borneo experienced by actress Judi Dench, Bond's M28. 8. 2019 Explore the lush rainforests, magical wildlife and spectacular coastlines of Malaysian Borneo, where our researchers also work. The British documentary JUDI DENCH'S: 2019 Wild Borneo Adventure,...
Conversion of tropical forests to oil palm plantation decreases the bioturbator diversity, but not the total amounts of translocated soil.21. 8. 2019 The article in Applied Soil Ecology shows that although diversity of bioturbating organisms varies greatly among differently degraded tropical forests, the amount of soil brought by them to surface...
Scientists ask the EU to enable the use of new methods of plant genome editing25. 7. 2019 Today marks one year since the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that organisms treated with precision breeding techniques (CRISPR) are genetically modified organisms (GMO). However, it also...
Biparental care recorded for the first time in bees7. 7. 2019 The article in PNAS provides the first evidence of biparental care for offspring in bees.
Biology Center researcher leads the first survey of insects on a remote South Pacific island6. 7. 2019 During the last three months, Dr. Milan Janda (Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, www.antlab.mx) together with Jacob Yombai and Ali Posman from the research and conservation NGO,...
Indigenous soil microorganisms are essential to prevent dissemination of risky genes in soil from animal manure24. 6. 2019 The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotic drugs is one of the major challenges facing human and veterinary medicine in the 21st century. Both research and practice recognize that...
Researchers map symbiotic relationships between trees and microbes worldwide20. 5. 2019 Data collected from over 1 million forest plots reveals patterns of where plant roots form symbiotic relationships with fungi and bacteria. In its current issue, the prestigious journal Nature has...
New ERC-CZ grant to uncover some secrets of multicellularity23. 4. 2019 Almost each cell of single animal or a plant contains the same DNA. However, there is a wide variety of cells with different shapes or functions. How is it brought about? What is it that enabled...
Lux in tenebris lucet: Casting light on Asgardarchaeota metabolism in a sunlit microoxic niche17. 4. 2019 Asgardarchaeota, a phylum-level division within the Archaea domain of life, comprises the closest extant relatives of the eukaryotes (discovered to date). Known only from metagenomics-based...
Life on Earth 750 million years ago was much more diverse, than expected12. 3. 2019 Brazilian researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history of amoebae and demonstrated that at the end of the Precambrian period, at least 750 million years ago, life on Earth was much more...