Biodiversity Archives - Page 4 of 4 - El·lipse

Choanoflagellates and friends: the unicellular organisms Salpingoeca rosetta (Arielle Woznica and Nicole King, UC Berkeley), Capsaspora owczarzaki (Helena Parra and Núria Ros, IBE) and Sphaeroforma arctica (Omaya Dudin, IBE) were some of the protagonists of this conference.

05.07.2019

Choanoflagellates & Friends, a meeting on our closest unicellular relatives

The Institute of Evolutionary Biology covers a wide range of topics. Credit: Tomàs Marquès-Bonet.

19.06.2019

IBE: 10 years of science to discover life, unravel evolution and preserve biodiversity

The use of fossil fuels induces an increase in CO2 levels. One of the consequences of this increase is global warming (Picture by Henry P. Gray from the Wikipedia).

04.04.2019

The “Sixth Extinction” caused by humans

18.01.2019

A new human ancestor, geckos, obesity and the genetics of risk-taking

Gerard Talavera is a member of the Butterfly Diversity and Evolution Lab at the IBE.

05.05.2018

Gerard Talavera (IBE): “When a species disappears it is like losing a UNESCO heritage artwork”

Nuclearia thermophila feeding on cyanobacteria.

04.04.2018

The other eukaryotes

Escherichia coli is one of the bacteria that form our microbiota, along with Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus.

07.09.2017

A microcosm inside you

18.11.2016

“The emergence of completely new genes surprised many scientists”

07.05.2014

Sun salutation

04.04.2013

“We don’t know why there are genes with multicellular functions in unicellular organisms”