The room was filled with nondescript wooden drawers full of rows and rows of preserved insects suspended with pins through their thoraxes. The minute changes of each insect’s evolution can be observed ...

A program at the Smithsonian’s Bocas del Toro Research Station, in Panama, allows marine invertebrate experts to pass down their very specific knowledge to aspiring taxonomists. Vanessa Crooks ...

New data on the taxonomy, karyology, reproductive biology and secondary metabolites of Hypericum dubium Leers (=H. maculatum subsp. obtusiusculum (Tourlet) Hayek) are given. The neotypification of the ...

WHEN Peter Camper, the great Dutch anatomist, was proposed for election as a foreign member of the Linnean-Society of London in 1788, he wrote refusing in very emphatic terms to be associated with a ...

Dinemandra and Dinemagonum, the only two genera of Malpighiaceae in Chile, have calyx glands borne on stalks rather than appressed to the surfaces of the calyx lobes as is typical of malpighs. It is ...

Some of the most abundant viruses in our microbiome have now been classified and can be cultured for further study. Research on the bacteria living in the human gut has blossomed in the past decade.

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