News
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Call-induced water ripples put frogs at risk of bat predation 01 January 2014
Wouter Halfwerk and colleagues from Panama and the US published a paper on multisensory communication in Science. The authors provide compelling data ...
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Hypoxic Signalling and Tuberculosis 01 January 2014
IBL-researcher Phil Elks in the group of Annemarie Meijer won the Cell Observatory Publication of the Year 2013. He received the award for his paper i...
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Snake genomes revealed for King Cobra and Burmese Python 01 December 2013
Freek Vonk and Mike Richardson, with many collaborators, have published two snake genomes in two parallel articles in the prestigious journal PNAS. Th...
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PhD-vacancy at the IBL on the neurogenomics of vocal learning 01 December 2013
This project on the role of FoxPs in vocal perception and production learning is part of nine PhD-positions funded by the NWO Gravitation Programme wh...
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Queen Máxima inspects zebrafish embryos 04 September 2013
On Wednesday the 4th of September, Queen Máxima opened the renovated tropical greenhouse complex of the Leiden Hortus Botanicus. At the occasion Máxim...
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How insects conquered land 30 August 2013
IBL-researchers revealed in a new study that insects are successful on land because their eggs became protected against desiccation. An extraembryonic...
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New insights into evolutionary loss of digits 01 July 2013
Merijn de Bakker and colleagues of the IBL-research group of Prof. Mike Richardson provide a unique view on digit evolution in crocodiles and birds in...
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Zebra finches discriminate wit from wet 04 December 2009
Can Zebra finches learn to distinguish two very similar Dutch words? Research by behavioral biologist Verena Ohms proved that they can identify 'wit' ...
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Songbird passes grammar test using mnemonics 17 November 2009
Songbirds apparently use mnemonics rather than more complex grammatical rules to recognise structures in which they have been trained. Leiden behaviou...
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Low-quality females prefer low-quality males 13 October 2009
Marie-Jeanne Holveck and Katharina Riebel from Behavioural Biology at the Institute of Biology at the Faculty of Science published their research in P...
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Super-fast evolution 12 May 2009
Certain cichlid fish in Lake Victoria seem to have adapted super-fast to changing circumstances. Dr Frans Witte from the Integrative Zoology section h...