Stasis in Biological News

Medicare coding for maggots and maggot therapy

...ggots were granted marketing clearance by the FDA in 2004 for treating neuropathic (i.e., diabetic) foot ulcers, pressure ulcers ("bed sores"), venous stasis ulcers, and traumatic and post-surgical wounds failing other forms of conventional therapy. There are now over 1,000 therapists using maggot therapy i...

Scientists find how amber becomes death trap for watery creatures

...ing changed a great deal through time, he said. Have amoeba and other microscopic organisms changed much? Or have they found a niche or what we call a stasis in which their evolutionary lineage persists for many hundreds of millions of years? We dont have the answers to those questions until we look at the ...

A bug's life: Exceptional genomic stability yet rapid protein evolution in a carpenter ant mutualist

...era, an aphid mutualist. Taken together, these results indicate that genome stasis may be a general feature of insect mutualists. Another important feature...d her colleagues explain in their Genome Research article, long-term genome stasis is a striking characteristic of insect mutualists, and it may severely cons...

Ocean climate predicts elk population in Canadian Rockies

...edator, cannot kill and eat fast enough to wipe out the whole population. Also, wolves tend to kill one another as their available prey dwindles, so a stasis is maintained naturally. Nevertheless, Hebblewhite is excited about his findings because they provide a deeper understanding of the complex relatio...