PLANTMETALS - A new COST Action bringing together 110 labs from 30 countries launched 22. 10. 2020 Metals in plants - this is the issue that will be jointly tackled by experts from one hundred and ten laboratories from 30 European countries. A new project "TRACE METAL METABOLISM IN PLANTS...
Giant plant genomes are driven by the accumulation of repetitive DNA and its conversion into a „dark matter“19. 10. 2020 Nuclear genome size, corresponding to the total length of DNA molecules in cell nuclei, varies more than 2,000-fold between different plant species. The genome size is not proportional to the...
More caterpillars in the temperate forests than in tropical rain forests: Scientists compared the abundance of insects across three continents8. 10. 2020 Insect decline is one of the major environmental problems of today and affects the number of individuals in insect communities. But how many insect individuals are there? And does the number of...
Provide shady spots to protect butterflies from climate change, say scientists24. 9. 2020 Researchers have discovered significant variations in the ability of different UK butterfly species to maintain a suitable body temperature. Species that rely most on finding a suitably shady...
Inaugural meeting of the Czech Society for Stable Isotopes4. 9. 2020 Save the Dates: Nov 11-13th, 2020. The inaugural ČSSI 2020 workshop aims (i) to develop communication between stable isotope researchers [in the natural sciences] from Czechia and surrounding...
Fish stock discrimination using image analysis18. 8. 2020 Fish stocking is one of the most widespread and frequent management strategies in freshwater systems. However, the contribution of stocked fish to the population is seldom investigated, and hence...
Endangered common tern seabird nesting in South Bohemia22. 7. 2020 The common tern endangered bird has nested on the Lipno artificial lake, being attracted by experimental floating islands that scientists placed on the reservoir in 2017 to increase the species...
Photoparasitic algal ancestry of apicomplexan parasites17. 7. 2020 If we want to find the Achilles heel of parasites, we sometimes have to delve deep into their evolutionary history. Evolutionary biologist Miroslav Oborník from the Biological Center of the Czech...
A new Lyme vaccine is 100% effective in tests27. 5. 2020 Researchers from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Science say that a vaccine against Lyme disease has shown 100% effectiveness in tests. The results were published at the beginning of May...
We have increased our testing capacity by 50 percent11. 5. 2020 On Monday, May 11th, the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences has opened a new laboratory adapted for testing clinical samples for coronavirus. The current testing capacity of the...
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