Zoology

Local student contributes to winning team

6 Feb 2012

Bison Micro-Venture, a team of 15 North Dakota State University students, won first place and $5,000 for their novel dental implant in the Innovation Challenge ‘12 competition Jan. 26.

A novel hypothesis for beetle diversification -- Loss of flight promotes beetle diversification

3 Feb 2012

Professor Teiji Sota, Department of Zoology at Kyoto University, and his group demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. This finding has been published in Nature Communications on January 31, 2012.

National seminar on Bio-technology begins

2 Feb 2012

The two-day national seminar on ‘Recent trends in Biotechnology’, organised by the Department of Zoology at Catholicate College began at the college auditorium here on Thursday.