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  01.03.2018

  Ecology: Spider biology

  When male nursery web spiders go a-courting, they always bring a gift wrapped in silk with them. A new study shows that the attractiveness of the present plays a larger role in determining mating success than previously thought. more
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  19.01.2018

  Biophysics

  Review in Science Magazine: smFRET & Dynamic structural biology more
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  15.01.2018

  Zoology

  Chameleons are known to communicate with conspecifics by altering their surface coloration. Munich researchers have now found that the bony tubercles on the heads of many species fluoresce under UV light and form impressive patterns. more
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  09.01.2018

  Cell Biology

  LMU researchers have identified a signaling pathway that restricts cleavage furrow formation to the mid-plane of the cell more
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  16.11.2017

  Neurobiology

  Contrast has an impact on the optokinetic reflex, which enables us to clearly perceive the landscape from a moving train. LMU researchers have now shown that visual features that modulate this ability are encoded in the retina. more
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  13.11.2017

  iGEM 2017: Munich team receives 1st Runner Up Prize at iGEM Jamboree

  Great success for students at worldwide championship in Synthetic Biology more
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  10.10.2017

  Neurobiology

  The waggle dance of the honeybee is a classical paradigm in behavioral biology. LMU neurobiologists have now investigated how the neuronal circuits process and encode the information communicated during the dance. more
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  18.09.2017

  Plant physiology

  Later leaf emergence, earlier leaf loss: A new LMU study shows that the average vegetation periods of trees and shrubs in North America are intrinsically three weeks shorter than those of comparable species in Europe and Asia. more
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  11.08.2017

  ERC-Grants: Two new ERC-funded projects at Faculty of Biology

  Two early-career researchers from Faculty of Biology have received generously endowed Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) to carry out innovative projects at LMU more
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  02.08.2017

  Neurobiology

  An LMU study reveals that sound-evoked activity of neurons in the auditory system of the mouse increases the thickness of their myelin sheaths – and enhances the speed of signal transmission – both during development and in the adult brain. more
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  31.07.2017

  New Master’s program

  Advances in medicine are increasingly being made at the interface between cell and molecular biology and the clinical sciences. A new Master’s program at LMU, entitled “Human Biology – Principles in Health and Disease”, which is scheduled to begin in 2018, will focus on this nexus between basic biology, clinical medicine and healthcare. more
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  25.07.2017

  Genetics: Symbiosis

  Textbooks tell us that, in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses, the host plant supplies its fungal symbionts solely with sugars, in return for inorganic nutrients. New findings now show that lipids are also on the menu. more
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  20.07.2017

  Neurobiology: Spatial orientation

  Neurobiologists present a new theory for the origin of the grid cells required for spatial orientation in the mammalian brain, which assigns a vital role to the timing of trains of signals they receive from neurons called place cells. more
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  05.07.2017

  Zoology

  The bigger the host, the better for its guests. That certainly holds for parasitic barnacles. more
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  07.06.2017

  Microbiology

  New insights into the control of DNA replication and cell division in Corynebacterium glutamicum, a biotechnologically important microorganism, could help to optimize the industrial production of amino acids. more
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  16.05.2017

  Systematic Botany

  Biologists have identified two new genera of algae, and named them after well-known industrial musicians. In so doing, they hope to stimulate debate over the guidelines that currently constrain taxonomic nomenclature. more
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  27.03.2017

  Systematic Botany: Ant-plant symbioses

  Many ant species live in often highly specific symbiotic relationships with plants from which both partners benefit. LMU researchers now reveal that such selective interactions can break down over the course of evolution. more
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  16.03.2017

  Zoology: Evolution

  Biologists at LMU have identified two 168-million-year-old fossils as the oldest known parasitic representatives of the crustacean group Isopoda. The study sheds new light on the evolutionary history of isopods. more
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  10.03.2017

  Evolutionary Ecology

  In contrast to other members of the Drosophila family, the spotted-wing fly D. suzukii deposits its eggs in ripe fruits. LMU biologists have now elucidated the sensory basis of their ability to exploit a novel ecological niche. more
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  17.02.2017

  Molecular Biology

  Every cell has its own individual molecular fingerprint, which is informative for its functions and regulatory states. Researchers have now carried out a comprehensive comparison of methodologies that quantify RNAs of single cells. more
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  09.02.2017

  Developmental Biology

  Programmed cell death is an integral part of embryonic development. more
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  07.02.2017

  Zoology

  Fish-scale geckos in the genus Geckolepis are able to lose their skin at the slightest touch. more
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  07.02.2017

  Microbiology

  Ethambutol has long been part of the standard therapy for tuberculosis. MArc Bramkamp and his team now describe how the antibiotic acts on the bacterium that causes the disease: It specifically inhibits growth of the cell wall from the cell poles. more