Posts Tagged ‘Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre’

Quebec forest. Photo by Mark Vellend.

What’s so unique about the tropics? UBC researcher says: “Less than we thought”

Sep. 22, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: , , , , ,

The temperate forests of Canada or Northern Europe may have much more in common with the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia or South America than commonly believed, according to a research group led by a University of British Columbia ecologist.

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Genomic ‘haircut’ makes world’s tiniest genome even smaller: UBC research

Sep. 20, 2010 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

The world’s tiniest nuclear genome appears to have “snipped off the ends” of its chromosomes and evolved into a lean, mean, genome machine that infects human cells, according to research published today by University of British Columbia scientists.

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