News: Integrative Biology
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Saving the Bees, Two Perspectives
How do you move 100,000 honeybees—a living laboratory for research on the gut microbiome—half way across the country?
![A busy hive of honeybees](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/bees-miller2400x1350.jpg)
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Sociable Chimps Harbor Richer Gut Microbiomes
Spending time in close contact with others often means risking catching germs and getting sick. But being sociable may also help transmit beneficial microbes, finds...
![Two chimpanzees interact in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Photo by Steffen Foerster, Duke University](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/gombechimps2-1000.jpg)
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Some Prairie Vole Brains Are Better Wired for Sexual Fidelity
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that natural selection drives some male prairie voles to be fully monogamous and others to...
![A pair of voles. One bears an ear tag that is used as a unique identifier for the vole. Photo by Aubrey Kelly/Cornell University.](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/pair-on-white-700.jpg)
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Fish Skin Provides Invisibility in Open Ocean
Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery about how some fish seem to disappear from predators in the open waters of the ocean, a discovery that...
![Diver measures polarized underwater light field](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/biological-response-to-the-polarized-underwater-light-field-1_5.jpg)
Engineering Bacterial Communities Improves Plant Growth
University of Texas at Austin scientists say there's a simple way for home gardeners and small farmers to give plants a pesticide-free boost: by harnessing...
![A row of 8 plants growing and flourishing at levels to varying degrees appear in front of a wall in an academic setting](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/screen_shot_2022-12-21_at_11.52.00_am.png)
Froggy Went a Courtin'
A graduate student and her advisor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin have discovered that female frogs are also prone to the...
![Two frogs sitting on moist ground](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/img_0462-2400x1600.jpg)
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Corals Are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say
Some coral populations already have genetic variants necessary to tolerate warm ocean waters, and humans can help to spread these genes, a team of scientists...
![A view of a coral reef underwater](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/coral-reef-4-credit-jordan-casey.jpeg)
2015 Summer Blockbusters: Meet Our Science Truth Detector
With summer movie season in full swing, cinema-goers are leaving theaters with one big question in mind: “Wait, could that really happen?”
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First Doctoral Degree at UT Awarded 100 Years Ago
In 1915, The University of Texas at Austin awarded its first Ph.D. ever to zoologist Carl Gottfried Hartman. Hartman would go on to become one...
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HIV Not As Infectious Soon After Transmission As Thought
People who recently have been infected with HIV may not be as highly infectious as previously believed, a finding from the lab of Lauren Ancel...
![Lauren Ancel Meyers at a podium in front of a projection of a global map with dots showing viral transmission](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/lauren-ancel-meyers-2400x1350.jpg)