Monthly Archives:July 2015

Behind the Image: Beautiful Sunbird

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Mohamed Shebl’s graceful shot of a Palestine Sunbird scoring some nectar from an Echinops flower was chosen as the overall winner for this year’s BMC Ecology image competition. In this Q&A we find out the “story behind the image”.

Biology

The secret hitch-hikes of a notorious worm

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This is a guest blog by Professor Hinrich Schulenburg of Kiel University, head of theDepartment of Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics和成员的研究焦点‘Kiel Life Science’. His group, together with members of theInternational Max-Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology, todaypublished an articleinBMC Ecologyon the ecology of nematodes that comes up with previously unknown insights into the lifestyle of these seemingly very well-known worms.

Biology