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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.

Graduate student Spencer Fox and his colleagues found strong evidence that the late timing of flu pandemics is caused by two opposing factors.

Sap-sucking pests could deliver gene therapy to plants under attack from diseases, droughts or floods

The answer might provide clues for developing better drugs to fight pain and addiction