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News

Monday, 19 Sep 2022

Spring isn't all it's quacked up to be. Pollen levels are high, magpies are terrorising cyclists and pedestrians alike, and protective duck parents are in attack mode.

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Saturday, 03 Sep 2022

Our new research unites genomic sequencing and museum collections to reconstruct the evolutionary tale of native rodents, including many extinct and elusive species – and they have a fascinating origin story.

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Thursday, 01 Sep 2022

If swooping season strikes fear into your heart, you're not alone. Fortunately, Dr Chaminda Ratnayake from the ANU Research School of Biology has the intel you need to navigate the great outdoors this spring.

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Magpie-lark pair duetting. Image: Pawel Rek
Thursday, 14 Jul 2022

A new study shows Australian magpie-larks may use a ventriloquial illusion to make their vocal duets more threatening.

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Friday, 27 May 2022

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.

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Friday, 27 May 2022

The raw material for evolution is much more abundant in wild animals than we previously believed, according to new research.

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Events

12 Nov 2020 | 10 - 11am

By nature of their conspicuousness, sexual signals can cause a conflict between natural and sexual selection, with natural selection favoring a decrease in exaggeration of an ornament and sexual selection favoring an increase.

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10 Nov 2020 | 5 - 6pm

The Peer Community in (PCI) project offers an alternative to the current system of publication - which is particularly expensive and not very transparent.

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Logo for the International Ion Channel Aquaporin Workshop, featuring the acronym "iCAQP" in stylized letters and a graphic of colorful spheres arranged around a cross.
10 Nov 2020 | 4pm

Workshop online webinar over 4 days:
Monday 2nd November 4-6pm
Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm
Monday 16th November 4-7pm
Monday 23rd November 3-7p

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6 Nov 2020 | 4 - 5pm

The cross-kingdom mimicry of female insect sex pheromones by sexually deceptive orchids has fascinated evolutionary biologists ever since the importance of chemistry in pollination by sexual deception was first recognised.

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Logo for the International Ion Channel Aquaporin Workshop, featuring the acronym "iCAQP" in stylized letters and a graphic of colorful spheres arranged around a cross.
2 Nov 2020 | 4pm

Workshop online webinar over 4 days:
Monday 2nd November 4-6pm
Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm
Monday 16th November 4-7pm
Monday 23rd November 3-7p

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29 Oct 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Any antagonistic interaction has the potential of favouring sex, just as predicted by the "Red Queen hypothesis" in the case of host-parasite interactions. Is it really the case?

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