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A rock, a piece of paper and a pair of scissors, each formed from a mass of microbes, are arranged in a cycle.
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Biodiversity May Thrive Through Games of Rock-Paper-Scissors

By Carrie Arnold
March 5, 2020
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Recent findings add weight to the evidence that the intransitive competitions between species enrich the diversity of nature.

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Biodiversity Alters Strategies of Bacterial Evolution

By Jordana Cepelewicz
January 6, 2020
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In evolution, context is everything: Bacteria with neighbors evolve to rebuff viruses in a different way.

Cichlid fish of diverse colors and shapes swim together.
evolution

New Hybrid Species Remix Old Genes Creatively

By Jonathan Lambert
September 10, 2019
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Clues from fish diversity suggest that interbreeding between species could be a major mechanism of fast speciation.

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What’s in a Name? Taxonomy Problems Vex Biologists

By Christie Wilcox
June 24, 2019
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Researchers struggle to incorporate ongoing evolutionary discoveries into an animal classification scheme older than Darwin.

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Rapid Oxygen Changes Fueled an Explosion in Ancient Animal Diversity

By Jonathan Lambert
May 9, 2019
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Skyrocketing animal diversity a half-billion years ago was linked to spikes and dips in marine oxygen levels, according to a detailed geological study.

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Scientists Discover Nearly 200,000 Kinds of Ocean Viruses

By Jonathan Lambert
April 25, 2019
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New work raises the estimated diversity of viruses in the seas more than twelvefold and lays the groundwork for a better understanding of their impact on global nutrient cycles.

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Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive Over Decades-Old Fire

By Carrie Arnold
April 16, 2019
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In harsh ecosystems around the world, microbiologists are finding evidence that “microbial seed banks” protect biodiversity from changing conditions.

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She Finds Clues to Future Sustainability in Old Food Webs

By Elizabeth Preston
March 21, 2019
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By reconstructing prehistoric food webs and analyzing the diverse interactions of humans with other species, the ecologist Jennifer Dunne is developing a new understanding of sustainability through network science.

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A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate

By Jordana Cepelewicz
May 7, 2018
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New modeling studies suggest that birds migrate to strike a favorable balance between their input and output of energy.


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