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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
Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960)
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Jan 22, 2015
Roy Chapman Andrews traveled the world studying fossils, from mammals to dinosaurs, during the first half of the twentieth century. Andrews worked…
WhalesWhales, FossilDinosaursNatural history museumsDinosaurs--Eggs
Edwin Stephen Goodrich (1868-1946)
By: Joe Brinkman
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
Edwin Stephen Goodrich studied the structures of animals in England during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Goodrich studied how animals…
ZoologyHomology (Biology)InvertebratesEvolution
A plant genetically modified that accumulates Pb is especially promising for phytoremediation (2003), by Carmina Gisbert et al.
By: Ernest Nkansah-Dwamena
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
In 2003, Carmina Gisbert and her research team produced a tobacco plant that could remove lead from soil. To do so, they inserted a gene from wheat…
PhytoremediationtobaccoLeadSoil Pollutioncadmium
Paul Kammerer's Experiments on Salamanders (1903-1912)
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
In the early twentieth century, Paul Kammerer conducted a series of experiments to demonstrate that organisms could transmit characteristics acquired…
Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926SalamandraLaboratory animals--Breeding--ExperimentsLamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829. Philosophie zoologique. EnglishHeredity
Paul Kammerer's Experiments on the Midwife Toad (1905-1910)
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
In the first decade of the twentieth century, Paul Kammerer, a zoologist working at the Vivarium in Vienna, Austria, conducted research on…
Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926Midwife toadsKammerer, Paul, 1880-1926. Streitfrage der Vererbung erworbener Eigenschaften. EnglishInheritance of acquired charactersAdaptation
Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association's suit against Monsanto, 2012 and 2013
By: Ernest Nkansah-Dwamena
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
In March 2011 the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and around sixty agricultural organizations (OSGATA et al.) filed a suit against…
ContextGenetic EngineeringPatent laws and legislationAgricultural biotechnologyTransgenic organisms
Theodora (Theo) Emily Colborn (1927-2014)
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
Theodora Colborn studied how chemicals affect organisms as they develop and reproduce during the twentieth and twenty first centuries in the US. By…
endocrine disruptorsEndocrine disrupting chemicalsPollutantsEndocrine toxicologyEndocrine System
Experimental Studies on Germinal Localization (1904), by Edmund B. Wilson
By: James Lowe
| Published: Dec 22, 2014
At the turn of the twentieth century, Edmund B. Wilson performed experiments to show where germinal matter was located in molluscs. At Columbia…
Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939EmbryosEmbryologyDevelopmental BiologyLarvae
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 22, 2014
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Anton Dohrn Zoological Station) is a public research institute focusing on biology and biodiversity. Hereafter…
OrganizationStazione zoologica di NapoliDevelopmental BiologyZoologyEmbryology