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- Plant discovered that neither photosynthesizes nor blooms
- What's that? New study finds jumping spiders can hear more than you think
- Virus carrying DNA of black widow spider toxin
| Plant discovered that neither photosynthesizes nor blooms Posted: 14 Oct 2016 06:21 AM PDT A new species of plant has been discovered on the subtropical Japanese island of Kuroshima (located off the southern coast of Kyushu in Kagoshima prefecture) and named it Gastrodia kuroshimensis. The new flowering plant species is a very rare event as the flora of this region have been thoroughly investigated. However, G. kuroshimensis was a particularly special discovery because it is both completely mycoheterophic, deriving its nutrition not from photosynthesis but from host fungi, and completely cleistogamous, producing flowers that never bloom. |
| What's that? New study finds jumping spiders can hear more than you think Posted: 13 Oct 2016 11:12 AM PDT While jumping spiders are known to have great vision, a new study proves for the first time that spiders can hear at a distance. A study describes how researchers used metal microelectrodes in a jumping spider's poppy-seed-sized brain to show that auditory neurons can sense far-field sounds, at distances up to 3 meters, or about 600 spider body lengths. |
| Virus carrying DNA of black widow spider toxin Posted: 11 Oct 2016 10:13 AM PDT Biologists sequencing the genome of the WO virus, which infects the bacterial parasite Wolbachia, have discovered that the phage carries DNA that produces black widow spider toxin: the first time an animal-like DNA has been found in such a virus. |
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