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American bullfrogs are native to eastern North America but have been transported by people to many other parts of the globe, and other parts of North America, where they have readily established populations and become an invasive alien menace to native ecosystems. In the largest study of its kind to date, the stomach contents of over 5,000 invasive alien American bullfrogs from 60 lakes and ponds on southern Vancouver Island were examined to identify the native and exotic animals that they...

Newt Global organized its Customer Consultative Summit 2012 to bring together experts and leaders from its current and prospective clients to discuss about upcoming opportunities. The event has served as an arena to pick up new ideas and create innovative solutions. Irving, TX (PRWEB) January 03, 2013 “Customer is the King”- is Newt Global’s philosophy. Listening to our customers is the best strategy to decide our next course of action. Towards this philosophy, Newt Global organized...

LONDON, November 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Froglife (http://froglife.org), the UK's dedicated amphibian and reptile charity has asked Incentivated to create "The Dragon Finder" - a smartphone app which will allow people to identify amphibian and reptile species within the UK, record their sightings and find out more about individual species. Based upon Froglife's existing database, the app - which will initially be available on iOS and Android devices, along with a mobile...

Newt Global is expanding its mobility training class curriculum in order to accommodate the growing demand for technology classes. Irving, Texas (PRWEB) June 01, 2012 Newt Global introduced its mobility training courses in early 2009 in an effort to groom their consultants and be ready for the anticipated needs of their clients. Since the launch, the program has matured over several iterations and has been rolled out as a commercial training open to students/professionals who are...

Utah State University biologists have long studied varied species of North American garter snakes that have evolved an amazing resistance to a deadly neurotoxin found in innocuous-looking newts, a favorite food of the snakes. The researchers have now discovered that snakes of different types in Central and South America and Asia have evolved the same resistance in a strikingly similar way. The findings, by USU alum Chris Feldman, PhD’08, now a faculty member at the University of...

According to new research, tropical regions with the richest diversity are most at risk of losing frogs, toads, newts and salamanders. Scientists predict the future for these amphibians is even more bleak than conservationists had thought. They predict that areas with the highest diversity of amphibian species will be under the most intense threat in the future.  About half of amphibian species are in decline, while a third that are already threatened with extinction. The scientists...

Study has implications for reprogramming human cardiac myocytes to replace damaged heart muscleStem cell researchers at UCLA have uncovered for the first time why adult human cardiac myocytes have lost their ability to proliferate, perhaps explaining why the human heart has little regenerative capacity.The study, done in cell lines and mice, may lead to methods of reprogramming a patient's own cardiac myocytes within the heart itself to create new muscle to repair damage, said Dr. Robb...

DAYTON, Ohio, July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists have been wrong for 250 years about a fundamental aspect of tissue regeneration, according to a University of Dayton biologist who says his recent discovery is good news for humans. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110103/DC23496LOGO) Watch University of Dayton biologist Panagiotis Tsonis explain his discovery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X4fqVNjwJI In research published in Nature Communications this month,...

Move over, newts and salamanders. The mouse may join you as the only animal that can re-grow their own severed limbs. Researchers are reporting that a simple chemical cocktail can coax mouse muscle fibers to become the kinds of cells found in the first stages of a regenerating limb. Their study, the first demonstration that mammal muscle can be turned into the biological raw material for a new limb, appears in the journal ACS Chemical Biology.Darren R. Williams and Da-Woon Jung say their...

Amphibians"”frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts"”are disappearing worldwide, but the stream salamanders of the Appalachian Mountains appear to be stable. This region is home to the largest diversity of salamanders in the world (more than 70 species reside here), and scientists want to understand what contributes to the stability of these salamander populations.In research published in the March 29, 2010 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Evan Grant (a...