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Wolbachia
By: Karine Prevot
| Published: Jan 29, 2015
Bacteria of the genus Wolbachia are bacteria that live within the cells of their hosts. They infect a wide range of arthropods (insects, arachnids…
WolbachiaBacteriaHost-bacteria relationshipsHost-parasite relationshipsArthropods
The Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog
By: Christopher Rojas
| Published: Jan 26, 2015
The Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog (Rheobatrachus silus) was an aquatic frog that lived in south-east Australia. In 2002, the International Union…
Sexual behavior in animalsReproductive BehaviorExtinction (Biology)Extinct animalsCloning
Intraspecies Chimeras Produced in Laboratory Settings (1960-1975)
By: Sarah Taddeo
| Published: Nov 25, 2014
When cells-but not DNA-from two or more genetically distinct individuals combine to form a new individual, the result is called a chimera. Though…
ContextChimerismEmbryosEmbryonic Stem CellsMosaicism
Oviraptor philoceratops Dinosaurs
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Feb 11, 2015
Oviraptor philoceratops was a small bird-like dinosaur that lived about seventy-five million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period. In 1923,…
OviraptorDinosaurs--EggsNatural history museumsPaleobiologyEvolutionary paleobiology
Mitochondria
By: Dorothy R. Haskett
| Published: Jul 05, 2014
All cells that have a nucleus, including plant, animal, fungal cells, and most single-celled protists, also have mitochondria. Mitochondria are…
CellsCell organellesMitochondriaPlant mitochondriaEndosymbiosis
Study of Fossilized Massospondylus Dinosaur Embryos from South Africa (1978-2012)
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Mar 31, 2015
In 1978, James Kitching discovered two dinosaur embryos in a road-cut talus at Roodraai (Red Bend) in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South…
ContextDinosaursDinosaurs--EggsMassospondylus carinatusMassospondylus
Apoptosis in Embryonic Development
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jun 08, 2017
Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a mechanism in embryonic development that occurs naturally in organisms. Apoptosis is a different process…
ApoptosisGenetic regulationCaenorhabditis elegansCellsGerm Cells