A new study reveals how diet shapes inherited behaviour.

 

Can Aztekin and his team have discovered how oxygen-sensing explains why amphibians regenerate limbs and mammals do not.

In an unprecedented series of global field experiments launched ten years ago at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, an international research team has tracked real-time evolution in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Across 30 locations worldwide — from the Alps to the Negev Desert — researchers sowed the plants, monitored their development, and analyzed genetic changes over several years.