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UT Austin researchers have identified a brain circuit in mice that might enable the high-speed back and forth of human conversation.

More severe droughts caused by climate change and increasing water use in Central Texas have left groundwater salamanders “highly vulnerable to extinction.”

In five cases where vertebrates evolved monogamy, the same changes in gene expression occurred each time.

Urban sophistication has real sex appeal — at least if you’re a Central American amphibian. Male frogs in cities are more attractive to females than their forest-frog counterparts, according to a new study from Mike Ryan and others published in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

The world’s most widely used weed killer, Roundup, causes honey bees to lose some of their beneficial bacteria and are more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria.

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Mike Ryan, professor of integrative biology, has a new book that explores the intersection of evolution and aesthetics.

When it comes to sex between plants, tiny bees the size of ladybugs play a critical role in promoting the genetic diversity that protects against disease, climate change and other threats, according to a study by Shalene Jha, a faculty member in the Departent of Integrative Biology.

The fish are part of a project to monitor the overall ecological health of Central Texas aquifers and better understand how water flows through them.