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Nice moves: First dancing, then mating in songbirds

Java sparrows are more likely to mate after dancing together, according to a study from Hokkaido University, contradictory to the belief that songs are the primary sexual signal. Songbirds are well-known to sing duets for…

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Plant’s parent genes cooperate in shaping their child

Discovery of parental factors that lead to asymmetric division of the zygote. [caption id="attachment_12113" align="alignnone" width="681"] SSP derived from the sperm cell activates the WRKY2 protein in the zygote. WRKY2 and HDG11/12, derived from the…

Lake MacKay Australia node full image 2

Lake MacKay, Australia

[caption id="attachment_12106" align="alignnone" width="700"] cREDIT: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by ESA , CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO[/caption] Brown hills speckle the eastern part of Australia’s Lake MacKay in this satellite image. Located on…