Once a seed germinates, it is committed to one location. Plants are sessile—stuck where they started out—forced to cope with ...

Wildfire causes most living things to flee or die, but some fungi thrive afterward, even feasting on charred remains. New ...

Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental ...

Angiosperms display an enormous diversity of forms, functions and strategies when it comes to reproduction. This multiplicity has been translated into several terminological concepts and contexts, ...

Abstract: Artificial neural networks have been increasingly used in many problems of data classification because of their learning capacity, robustness and extendibility. Training in the neural ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death follows mating with such consistency that it can be predicted within a ...