Physiology:
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently published an article discussing some progress in blue crab research and conservation, and mentioned a related report: The Chesapeake Bay blue crab population has stabilized, but at historically low levels according...
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Posted on December 19, 2007 12:28 PM • 0 Comments •
Heather finally printed the follow up to her cellular self portrait (links to the first print), this time using plant cells. I particularly like the difference in movement between the prints. A week from this Friday she's having her senior...
Posted on November 7, 2007 12:10 PM • 0 Comments •
Things will be a bit slow on TVG this week. My mother was pulling weeds a bit too hard, fell back and snapped both her radius and ulna in half. The doctors had to bolt and plate the bones, and...
Posted on October 9, 2007 2:00 PM • 0 Comments •
All about bacteriorhodopsin...
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Posted on October 6, 2007 12:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Heather just finished her self portrait assignment in printmaking, and while others studied pictures of their faces from all angles, she picked up a cell bio text and studied other aspects of self. Her rationale and a few of...
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Posted on October 4, 2007 8:15 AM • 2 Comments •
It's nice when you stumble across some scientific literature that answers a question that's been bugging you. Well, in this case, maybe half of a question. I've always wondered if there was some connection between an organism's intelligence and its...
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Posted on August 31, 2007 10:21 AM • 1 Comments •
Fairy rings are regarded in legends across Europe and North America. In Wales and much of Britain, people thought the rings were leftover from the merriment of fairies. In Ireland they are associated with leprechauns. In Germany, witches gathered around...
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Posted on August 3, 2007 10:40 AM • 2 Comments •
Last time we delved into some of the smallest components of spiders and insects, exploring their differences based on deviations in their genetic code through molecular homology. But there is one particular unifying element to these creatures and their overall...
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Posted on July 17, 2007 10:30 AM • 1 Comments •
In the last post of this series, we established that spiders descended from marine arthropods called the eurypterids, distinct and separate from insects, appearing in the fossil record in the late Silurian/early Devonian, about 425 million years ago. The cladogram...
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Posted on July 16, 2007 11:40 AM • 0 Comments •
I started this series of posts almost a year ago, incorporating some basics about taxonomy, evolution, and a little genetics while exploring my fascination with the Chelicerates. I'll be reposting the series, which is included in the Basic Concepts list,...
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Posted on July 11, 2007 1:00 PM • 11 Comments •
Jeremy Bruno is a tech writer who blogs about ecology, evolution, conservation and culture at The Voltage Gate. Visit the old blog.
