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Undergraduate club supports local animal shelters
by Angelina Tang '28 Millions of pets in the United States enter animal shelters every year, putting facilities at capacity with no end in sight anytime soon. Couple that with a trend of dogs, particularly large dogs, spending more and more time...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
Infection

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Infection, diet reshape intestines differently

Diet changes and infection resize an organism’s intestines through different cellular strategies. In malnourished fruit flies, infectious microbes became a source of food, not just a threat.

  • Entomology
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
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Insights into bee biology could ease US rules for organic honey

Strict regulations have prevented continental U.S. beekeepers from participating in the lucrative organic honey market, but new findings could provide evidence to open organic markets to U.S. producers.

  • Entomology
  • Food
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Climate change leaves northern tree swallows most vulnerable

Tree swallows in the northern U.S. and Canada face the greatest risk from climate change despite responding to temperature the same way as tree swallows in the southern U.S.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
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There may be 3 times as many insect species than previously thought

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 to 14 million more species than people thought, with few of them discovered.

  • Entomology
  • Biodiversity
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