This fungus shrinks in size to better infect the brain
Phosphate can trigger fungus size reduction, enabling further infection.
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Drought’s one-two punch
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Researchers look into the effects of repeated droughts on different kinds of forests.
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Long-term observations track Mojave Desert plants’ responses to climate change.
Read MoreSex, lice and videotape
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Biologists drove the divergence of different-sized feather lice from a single population. In four years the evolved lice had trouble mating with each other, a sign of speciation and they caught it on tape.
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