Plant Ecology, Vol. 213, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2012), pp. 225-235 (11 pages) The influences of intraspecific competition on plant size inequality have been well documented, but interspecific effects on this ...

Halfway down the east slope of the Andes in Ecuador, sightings of the luminous yellow beaks of the chestnut-mandibled toucan are abruptly replaced by the colorful beaks of the white-throated toucan.

Interspecific hybridization is a key process in plant evolution and breeding that can lead to phenotypic changes and the formation of new species. The merging of different genomes in a hybrid often ...

Scientists successfully employed mutagenesis to identify the gene that causes hybrid sterility in rice, which is a major reproductive barrier between species. Scientists successfully employed ...

Microbiology investigates the complexities of interactions among different microbial species and their higher eukaryotic ...