Insect smuggling rarely grabs headlines, yet it has real consequences. The trades draw far less public concern than big‑animal crime.
We’re all familiar with vertical gene transfer (whether you know it or not). Vertical transfer describes the way you inherit genes from your parents, for example. What about horizontal (or lateral) ...
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Praying mantises spotted in mainland England for the first time ‘may have blown over from Europe’
Breeding populations of praying mantis exist on the Isle of Wight and in the Channel Islands, but not in mainland England ...
image: A young Australian stick insect (Extatosoma tiaratum) hangs upside-down on a houseplant at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. view more Plant cell walls are comprised of many ...
Plant cell walls are comprised of many complex polymers that require multiple different enzymes to fully break down, such as cellulase to digest cellulose and xylanase to digest xylan. For decades ...
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