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Coastal waters are unexpected hotspots for nitrogen fixation
Published: 21/02/2019Nitrogen fixation is surprisingly high in the ocean's coastal waters and may play a larger role than expected in carbon dioxide uptake, a new study shows. The findings -- based on thousands of samples ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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How coral bleaching threatens Caribbean communities
Published: 21/02/2019A new study uses environmental, socioeconomic and management data from 30 Caribbean islands to identify which communities may be most at risk from the social and ecological effects of coral bleaching, ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Researchers discover a flipping crab feeding on methane seeps
Published: 20/02/2019Researchers have documented a group of tanner crabs vigorously feeding at a methane seep on the seafloor off British Columbia -- one of the first times a commercially harvested species has been seen u ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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Antibiotic resistances spread faster than thought, aquaculture study reveals
Published: 19/02/2019By studying fish raised in aquaculture, researchers have shed new light on the mechanisms by which antibiotic resistance genes are transferred between bacteria. According to their study, those mechani ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Fishing and pollution regulations don't help corals cope with climate change
Published: 19/02/2019A new study reports that protecting coral reefs from fishing and pollution does not help coral populations cope with climate change. The study also concludes that ocean warming is the primary cause of ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Why North Carolinian boats are fishing off New Jersey's coast, and how a CSF might help
Published: 19/02/2019By studying the logbooks of fishing boats, researchers found that some fishing boats travel more than 250 miles to catch the fish that used to be in local waters. In response, researchers began invest ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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Ocean acidification harms cod larvae more than previously thought
Published: 19/02/2019The Atlantic cod is one of the most important commercial fish species in the world. Recent studies have shown that ocean acidification threatens the early life stages of this species. So far it was ho ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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20-million-year-old tusked sea cow is Central America's oldest marine mammal
Published: 19/02/2019A researcher searching the shoreline of the Panama Canal for fossil plants instead found an ancient sea cow. An 'emergency fossil excavation' due to rising water levels yielded a remarkably complete s ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Total synthesis of marine antitumor agents trabectedin and lurbinectedin
Published: 19/02/2019With its vast numbers of different lifeforms, the sea is a largely unexplored source of natural products that could be starting points for new pharmaceuticals, such as the antitumor drugs trabectedin ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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Virus-infected bacteria could provide help in the fight against climate change
Published: 17/02/2019Understanding the relationship between microbes and viruses is beneficial not only for medical research and practical applications but also in marine biology, say researchers. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks; Designing Antibiotic Cocktails and Modelling Synaptic Depression
Published: 13/02/2019Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the January issue of PLOS Computational Biology. The first one of 2019! Multi-study inference of regulatory networks for more accurate ... Read moreSource: blogs.plos.org -
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Ecosystem changes following loss of great white sharks
Published: 13/02/2019A new study has documented unexpected consequences following the decline of great white sharks from an area off South Africa. The study found that the disappearance of great whites has led to the emer ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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Re-establishing oyster beds to maximize their ecological benefits
Published: 11/02/2019Researchers have developed a mapping tool that identifies sites for re-establishing oyster reefs that maximize their ecological benefits -- such as water filtration. This Geographic Information System ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Aquaculture does little, if anything, to conserve wild fisheries
Published: 11/02/2019New research finds that aquaculture, or fish farming, does not help conserve wild fisheries. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Marine scientists find toxic bacteria on microplastics retrieved from tropical waters
Published: 11/02/2019A team of marine scientists had uncovered toxic bacteria living on the surfaces of microplastics (which are pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters in size) collected from the coastal areas of Si ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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Climate change may destroy tiger's home
Published: 11/02/2019A scientist says the last coastal stronghold of an iconic predator, the endangered Bengal tiger, could be destroyed by climate change and rising sea levels over the next 50 years. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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On the land, one-quarter of vertebrates die because of humans
Published: 11/02/2019Humans have a ''disproportionately huge effect'' on the other species of vertebrates that share Earth's surface with us, causing more than 25 percent of the deaths among an array of species all over t ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Fish Appear to Recognize Themselves in the Mirror
Published: 7/02/2019The cleaner wrasse fish (Labroides dimidiatus), responds to its reflection and attempts to remove marks on its body during the mirror test -- a method considered the gold standard for determining self ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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Speciation: a Few Big Genes or Many Little Ones?
Published: 7/02/2019by Simon Martin, Richard Merrill and Chris Jiggins NOTE: This blog post has been substantially abridged and edited by PLOS Biologue. For the full-length text, please see Heliconius.org. ... Read moreSource: blogs.plos.org -
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AAAS award misstep could be an opportunity
Published: 7/02/2019AAAS awards glyphosate researchers then recants amid outcry. How did this happen and how can AAAS change for the better? Read moreSource: biofortified.org -
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Unusual microbes hold clues to early life
Published: 7/02/2019A new study has revealed how a group of deep-sea microbes provides clues to the evolution of life on Earth. Researchers used cutting-edge molecular methods to study these microbes, which thrive in the ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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