Additional or B-chromosomes are "mysterious" hereditary elements found in the genomes of many species of fungi, plants and animals.
12
December
News
In 2024, a series of papers was published that expanded our knowledge of the diversity of the fauna of oribatid mites in Ethiopia.
Mole voles live in large groups underground and rarely come to the surface.
The Russian Science Foundation has summed up the results of the priority area of activity "Conducting fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research by small individual scientific groups".
The results of the Russian project to restore the Amur tiger population by raising orphaned tiger cubs forcibly removed from the wild open up opportunities for the restoration of tigers throughout Asia.
The scientific work of the international Russian-Chinese laboratory for the study of the Amur tiger and the Far Eastern leopard was launched.
04
December
Corals in extreme habitats
The expedition of the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Center to the Vietnam, the main objective of which was to study the composition, distribution and condition of corals and related organisms, has been successfully completed.
Leading scientists from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and the People's Republic of China took part in the conference.
One of the unique pieces of evidence that allows us to judge the appearance of fossil animals of the late Pleistocene are their rock paintings left on the walls of caves by Paleolithic artists.
02
December
Over the past half century, rainbow trout has successfully naturalized in the waters of Central Asia
An international team of authors with the participation of B.A. Levin, an employee of the IEE RAS, and G.K. Khasengazieva, his postgraduate student, studied the current state of rainbow trout populations in Kazakhstan.
On November 21, a practical lesson was held at the IEE RAS as part of the Competition for schoolchildren of specialized classes, under the guidance of Anna Neretina, PhD in Biology, research fellow at the IEE RAS.
The researchers from the IEE RAS have been the first to verify an ecological (gradient) speciation model for three shrew species interchanging in adjacent altitudinal zones of the Bale Mountains.
28
November
90 year anniversary of IEE RAS
90 years ago, on October 5, 1934, at a meeting of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Laboratory of Evolutionary Morphology at the USSR Academy of Sciences was transformed into the Institute of Animal Evolution.
In the Moscow Region, scientists have discovered a new pest of a dangerous invasive plant – Heracleum sosnowskyi, which has spread widely across Russia.
Representatives of more than 20 scientific organizations of the Caspian states - Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Iran, as well as the United Kingdom, noted the high relevance of the conference.
26
November
How does long-term inbreeding affect the lifespan and reproductive performance of yellow steppe lemmings?
The study revealed the relative resistance of yellow lemmings to inbreeding depression in conditions where the artificial population is formed from only 7 animals.
Beavers are called ecosystem engineers because they rebuild aquatic ecosystems and have a significant impact on many aquatic and near-aquatic organisms.
The Caspian seal is endemic to the Caspian Sea. Over the past century, the seal population has significantly decreased, and the species is currently listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation.