Plant biology is biology, isn’t it?
Stranger than Fiction Plant biology: You can’t make this stuff up. By Mary Beth Aberlin | January 1, 2014 Excerpt: “Plants succeeded in dramatically expanding […]
chemical signals
Reese Jones or Bonnie Bassler?
“Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning […]
de novo creation times two
de novo is a Latin expression meaning “from the beginning,” “afresh,” “anew,” “beginning again.” Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps [subscription required] […]
Human Pheromones in Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology
The honeybee is a model organism for understanding the epigenetic link from food odors and social odors to neural networks of the mammalian brain, which ultimately determine human behavior.
Epigenetics, science fiction, and scientific fact
…he also said that chemical signals between organisms can change genetic expression. This allows the social environment to modify gene expression in individuals and in their offspring.