The offshore bird's secret, revealed for the first time in May by zoologists at Iowa State University, is in the storm petrel's telomeres, repetitive bits of DNA that sit on the ends of the chromosomes in each cell like protective caps. (discovermagazine.com)
The team of zoologists lead by Prof. Dieter Ebert has been studying the evolution of microsporidia for years. (sciencedaily.com)
These kinds of relationships have been drawn over the years by zoologists who painstakingly constructed evolutionary trees... (hhmi.org)