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Large-bodied mammals play crucial roles in ecosystems. They create habitats, serve as prey, help plants thrive, and even influence how wildfires burn. But now, fewer than half of the large mammal ...

AMES, Iowa – Understanding how both environmental conditions and genetic makeup affect crops is essential to developing varieties that are more resilient and productive. But the intricate interplay ...

An individual’s genetics and their environment both shape their personality. However, opinions differ on the degree to which each of these factors influences personality, and how they contribute to ...

Mollusks appeared 540 million years ago, but almost half the unique traits of this group evolved in the first 96 million ...

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Their novel approach showed how mammal traits evolved with changing environments over time and revealed factors that contributed to biodiversity loss. Catherine Barzler, Senior Research Writer/Editor ...

The interplay between the genetic makeup of crops and the conditions in which they grow is difficult to untangle. A research team aims to help breeders analyze the interactions to make crops more ...