A team from the Wood Lab, a UW lab that researches aquatic parasite ecology, traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico this summer ...

A species of moss survived for 9 months on the outside of the International Space Station, new research reveals — and 80% of ...

UC Davis nematologists, including Valerie Williamson, professor emerita in the Department of Plant Pathology, and associate ...

Walk through an oak stand in late summer or fall, and you’ll spot leaves dotted with neat little spheres, also known as galls ...

Multicellular organisms (animals, plants, humans) all have the ability to methylate the cytosine base in their DNA. This process, a type of epigenetic modification, plays an important role in ...

This new research indicates that targeting of methylation on the adenine base in unicellular organisms could be a way in ...

A Western-led interdisciplinary research team is using artificial intelligence (AI) to target a potentially harmful enzyme found in the human body ...

Lasius orientalis and Lasius umbratus—invade and overtake a host ant colony. In both cases, the parasitic ant queen invades the nest and sprays the host colony queen with what is likely formic acid.

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.

They explained that in the ruthless world of parasitic ants, taking over a host colony is a matter of life and death. The ...

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on ...