Zoology Jottings

Zoology has a discipline: evolution; zoology is vertically integrated, concerned with biological organisation at the level of organisms in their environment, organs, tissues, cells and molecules. This blog meanders through the animal kingdom, from aardvarks and anoles, through mouse and man, to zorillas and zebras.

Sunday, 21 December 2014

Extinction of Pollinating Insects and the History of Agricultural Improvement

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There were numerous papers of interest in 12 December issue of Science . Amongst them was one on the history of the disappearance of pollina...
Friday, 19 December 2014

Update on Guy Aylmer (Donors of Reptiles to London Zoo 1915)

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Thanks to Professor Bryan Tyson I have am able to provide more information on Guy Aylmer about whom I wrote under the heading  Donors of Re...
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Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Giant Salamanders

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The arrival of a 1.3 metre Chinese Giant Salamander at London Zoo reminds me that I found two very useful papers that pulls together what...
Saturday, 13 December 2014

Bird Genomes, Bird Phylogeny—and Mesites

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Science  this week (12 December) carries a series of articles and eight papers on a major bird genome project. The  whole genomes of 48 s...
Friday, 12 December 2014

Hong Kong Newt

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I wrote about Asian salamanders, a new chytrid fungus, the amateur herpetologist and the pet trade (the last two being bulked to ‘pet’ trad...
Saturday, 6 December 2014

Galapagos: Does the Charles Darwin Foundation have a future?

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There may be more between the lines to the story that has hit the newspapers these past few weeks on the threatened closure of the Charles ...
Friday, 5 December 2014

Cell Signalling: Signals Within or Between Cells?

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When somebody tells me they work on cell signalling I have to ask them what they mean. They look shocked. That is because those who work ...
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Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1996, Malcolm Peaker is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A graduate of the University of Sheffield (BSc, DSc) and the University of Hong Kong (PhD, Hon. DSc), he was Director of the Hannah Research Institute and Hannah Professor in the University of Glasgow, Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London, Chairman of the, British Nutrition Foundation and a member of the Rank Prize Funds Nutrition Advisory Committee.
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