'They achieve this by raising their abdomen to reduce drag so they can fly at high speeds while using less energy.' Why it matters: As well as helping scientists create tiny flying machines, this research reiterates how the honeybees' anatomy is perfectly designed to carry out its function in nature, to pollinate flowering plants, which it does by flying up to three miles from its hive.
Recent advances in proteomics have revealed the extent of regulation by PTMs and the different mechanisms used in nature to exert control over protein function via PTMs.
In nature, PBs function to stably accumulate large amounts of storage proteins in seeds.
We further restrict to chemical synapses excluding gap junctions, very different from the previous in nature and function.
In nature, many systems function similarly to tensegrities, at all scale levels.
Ureases (urea amidohydrolases, EC 3.5.1.5) are a group of highly proficient enzymes, widely distributed in nature, whose catalytic function is to catalyze the hydrolysis of urea, its final products being carbonic acid and ammonia.
In general, coevolved biotic signals in nature function explicitly as advertisements to other organisms.
Scientists have long thought that bright stripes in nature may function as optical illusions, helping animals avoid attacks by messing up how predators perceive motion.
Those proteins encoded by genes which were originally present in the endosymbiont's own genome are prokaryotic in nature and function internally within the chloroplast during the division process.
Unfortunately, there are no GsAG2-deficient mutants in nature; therefore, to show the function of the GsAG2, the suppression of GsAG2 by VIGS should be attempted in future studies.
