“Omics” refer to the study of specific type of biological process within an organism based on ... there is a danger that these species would end up being invasive alien species, a serious ...

Over successive generations, gene drives can cause a trait to spread across an entire species’s population, even if that gene doesn’t benefit the organism. In that way, gene drives do ...

An invasive tick species in Connecticut has been found to ... The invasive ticks are not native to the United States and are invasive to Australia, New Zealand, and some Pacific islands.

While several high-profile invasive ant species — such ... Of the world's 15,000 ant species, at least 1,500 are found in Australia. By comparison, the United States has 829 species, South ...

Remarkable research has unlocked new understanding of the mysterious ways trees communicate and share knowledge with each other – and much like in many animal species, the wisdom of age plays a ...

Here, at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam, workers are preparing a site for barriers to keep invasive bighead and ... two of the four Asian carp species, to clear algae from ponds in the 1970s.

sustainable and cost-effective way to control invasive alien species,” says Sankaran, echoing the views of most conservation ecologists in the world. In this mode of bioinvasion management, an exotic ...

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From cane toads in Australia to Eurasian weevils in the western U.S., underestimating the ecological risks of biocontrol—using one living organism ... are overrun by invasive species.) ...

Air potatoes are a species of yam native to Africa, Asia and Northern Australia. The air potato is considered an invasive species within parts of the Southeastern U.S. Air potatoes are commonly ...

the cane toad turned into a case study for invasive species. Today, an estimated 200 million cane toads are hopping across northern Australia with no signs of slowing down. Female cane toads lay ...

The University of Florida, in collaboration with IFAS, provides research on invasive species in Florida ... State of Victoria, Australia, 2010 ...