/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1140/all en /newsroom/channels/news/origin-complex-life-form-revealed-324170 <p>Researchers from 平特五不中 have revealed the steps by which two very distinct organisms 鈥� bacteria and carpenter ants 鈥� have come to depend on one another for survival to become a single complex life form. The study, published today in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2653-6"><i>Nature</i></a><i>, </i>shows that the two species have collaborated to radically alter the development of the ant embryo to allow this integration to happen. Understanding how such grand unifications originate and evolve is a major puzzle for biologists.</p> Tue, 01 Sep 2020 19:42:22 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 237454 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-researchers-honoured-quebec-science-2019-list-top-discoveries-303926 <p>Research from 平特五不中 topped <i><a href="https://www.quebecscience.qc.ca/">Qu茅bec Science</a></i>鈥檚 annual list of the 10 most important scientific breakthroughs. This year, G眉nther Grill, Bernhard Lehner, Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰, Heidi M. McBride, Samantha Gruenheid, and Ehab Abouheif were recognized for their trailblazing work, by a jury of researchers and journalists reviewing the most influential discoveries made in Quebec.</p> <p>Here is a closer look at the selected discoveries:</p> Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:56:19 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 195275 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/making-soldier-ants-290511 <p> </p> Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:11:41 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 87919 at /newsroom /newsroom/ehab-abouheif Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 24116 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/honey-i-shrunk-ants-how-environment-controls-size-243448 <p>Until now scientists have believed that the variations in traits such as our height, skin colour, tendency to gain weight or not, intelligence, tendency to develop certain diseases, etc., all of them traits that exist along a continuum, were a result of both genetic and environmental factors. But they didn鈥檛 know how exactly these things worked together. By studying ants, 平特五不中 researchers have identified a key mechanism by which environmental (or epigenetic) factors influence the expression of all of these traits, (along with many more). Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:18:15 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 22232 at /newsroom