Articles by Sandhya Sekar

Sensory neurons in the tip of the zebrafish nose respond to molecular signals released from food sources.

E. coli that make indoles protect older worms, flies, and mice from frailty. 

Prey stick to orb-weaver spider webs because their waxy outer layers mesh with spider silk to form a matrix glue.

With the help of a virus that infects its prey’s nervous system, a parasitoid wasp coerces a lady beetle to protect its young.

Researchers pinpoint microRNAs that could play a role in how Wolbachia bacteria manipulate their arthropod hosts.

On islands off the coast of Florida, scientists uncover swift adaptive changes among Carolina anole populations, whose habitats were disturbed by the introduction of another lizard species.

Fossils of an extinct, armored fish challenge current understanding of when copulation and internal fertilization evolved in jawed vertebrates.

Chikungunya virus is transmitted through a three-way interaction that hinges on viral strain, mosquito genotype, and ambient temperature, researchers report.

Two island populations of male crickets independently evolved to evade parasites by keeping quiet, and have come up with a way to sneak matings with females that still seek the male courtship song.

Researchers uncover a self-recognition mechanism that prevents octopus limbs from becoming entangled, despite their powerful suction.

Researchers report the first evidence of cryopreservation by an overwintering insect in which stores of an uncommon lipid are critical.