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Reality and illusion in magpie-lark song-and-dance duets
A new study shows Australian magpie-larks may use a ventriloquial illusion to make their vocal duets more threatening.
Wild animals are evolving faster than anybody thought
To measure the speed of adaptive evolution in the wild, we studied 19 populations of birds and mammals over several decades. We found they were evolving at twice to four times the speed suggested by earlier work.
Wild animals evolving much faster than previously thought
The raw material for evolution is much more abundant in wild animals than we previously believed, according to new research.Pages
E&E Seminar: Better together? Group decision making in velvet worms, social insects and giant amoebas
E&E Seminar: Our rather surprising highland grasslands and their future: the ecology and ecophysiology of an ecosystem
37th meeting of the Australian New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Event recordings
2 September 2022
Truc Nguyen, Gordon Group, E&E, RSB
Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains are responsible for the majority of extra-intestinal infections in humans, including urinary tract infections,...
31 August 2022
Yun Hsiao, Rowell Group, E&E, RSB
Cycads are subtropical and tropical palm-like gymnosperms, commonly known as “living fossils” as they arose in the late Paleozoic and were much more diverse and dominant during...
26 August 2022
Lauren Harrison, Head & Jennions Groups, E&E, RSB
Males compete against each other for female attention, for access to mating opportunities, and the sperm of multiple males can compete to fertilise a female’s eggs.
26 May 2022
Jeff Powell, Western Sydney University
The vast majority of plants are mycorrhizal, with two of the most dominant types (arbuscular [AM] and ectomycorrhizal [EcM]) existing at opposite ends of multiple spectra.
19 May 2022
Peter Unmack
Carp gudgeons in eastern Australia have evolved a complex and quirky system of hemiclonal unisexual reproduction.
12 May 2022
Erin Macartney, University of New South Wales
An individual’s environment can substantially impact its health, fitness, and the traits it invests energy to. This is something that I am particularly interested in and has been...
5 May 2022
Joanne Bennett, Fenner School, ANU
The majority of the world’s plants rely on animal pollination at least to some degree for reproduction.
28 April 2022
Simon Griffith, Macquarie University
The long-tailed finch, Poephila acuticauda provides a long-established example of sub-species divergence across the Top-End of Australia based on bill colour, with red-billed...
22 April 2022
Rocco Notarnicola, Nicotra Group, E&E, RSB
The climate is warming fast, threatening species persistence and biodiversity. Being sessile, plants must respond and adapt to changing environmental conditions in situ.
21 April 2022
Dr Laura Wilson, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU
Bat echolocation is considered one of the most complex and diverse modes of sensory perception in animals, but its origin and evolutionary history is a highly contentious issue...
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