Podcast: Look Up! Arboreal Tropical Ant Habitats with Petr Klimes22. 12. 2020 They’re everywhere, even the trees. Petr Klimes researches the ecological roles of insects, especially ants in Papa New Guinea, where many species are less accessible for research. He shares...
A new trademark „Proven in the tropics“ registered 17. 12. 2020 In December 2020, a new trademark of the Biology Centre CAS was entered into the trademark register – PROVEN IN THE TROPICS. The trademark will be granted to technologies and products that will...
Inaugural meeting of the Czech Society for Stable Isotopes10. 12. 2020 The inaugural meeting of the Czech Society for Stable Isotopes, organized by the Biology Centre of the CAS and the Faculty of Science of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, takes...
World Soil Day: Keep soil alive, Protect soil biodiversity5. 12. 2020 The theme of the United Nations World Soil Day on 5th December 2020 is "Keep soil alive, Protect soil biodiversity". Soil scientists of the Biology Centre CAS are joining this year's appeal of the...
Emerging digital tools for marine and freshwater conservation29. 10. 2020 The digital revolution in the age of big data is creating new research opportunities. Approaches such as culturomics and iEcology promise to provide huge benefits and novel sources of information...
A new version of RepeatExplorer pipeline introduced in Nature Protocols24. 10. 2020 RepeatExplorer is a computational pipeline designed to identify and quantify repetitive sequences in eukaryotic genomes. The pipeline was developed by scientists from the Laboratory of Molecular...
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...
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