{"id":3558,"date":"2010-06-07T13:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2010-06-07T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:08:34","slug":"from-the-community-cricket-sex-vertical-farms-and-h1n1-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2010\/06\/07\/from-the-community-cricket-sex-vertical-farms-and-h1n1-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Community: cricket sex, vertical farms and H1N1 resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists document cricket predation and reproduction, protestors cancel Oscar-winning anti-dolphin-hunting documentary in two Tokyo theaters, study describes the process of developing resistance to H1N1 treatments and researchers debate the possibility of achieving sustainable agriculture worldwide. Here is ecology in the news from the first week in June.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cricket encounters:<\/strong> Evolutionary ecologist Tom Tregenza of the University of Exeter in Penryn, Cornwall tested the validity of cricket mating rituals and sexual selection in the wild\u2014versus the well-documented behaviors from lab experiments. Using surveillance cameras (see above video), Tregenza monitored the crickets\u2019 lives in the wild; using DNA sequencing, he traced their lineage. Read more at <\/span>Nature News<\/span><\/em><\/a> or <\/span>Wired Science<\/span><\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Future farms:<\/strong> According to the United Nations, the world population is expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, nearly doubling global demands on food and livestock feed. Discover<\/em> Magazine<\/em> looks at the challenges associated with increased food demand and one of the proposed solutions: vertical farming. <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/a> and view the photo gallery of building designs at \u201cVertical Farms: High Hopes for Feeding the Future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Film protests:<\/strong> Conservatives in Tokyo have successfully pressured two local theaters into canceling the screening of an Oscar-winning anti-dolphin-hunting film \u201cThe Cove\u201d (see above video)\u2014the protestors picketed and called the theaters claiming the film had anti-Japanese sentiments. Japan\u2019s government and conservatives argue dolphin-hunting is an important cultural tradition; the film\u2019s activists claim that the documentary is not anti-Japan but anti-animal-cruelty. <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/a> at \u201cDolphin hunt film screenings cancelled in Tokyo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

H1N1 resistance:<\/strong> A study in Science<\/em> explains the process by which the H1N1 virus became resistant to Tamiflu, an over-the-counter treatment that binds to an important protein in the virus. As Not Exactly Rocket Science<\/em> described, \u201cResistant strains have a mutation in their neuraminidase gene, which changes a single amino acid in the protein\u2019s sequence. This changes the structure of the protein so that Tamiflu no longer sticks to it.\u201d <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/a> at \u201cHow drug-resistant flu took us by surprise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The ongoing disaster:<\/strong> BP reports that a cap installed last week over the leaking pipe is capturing approximately 10,500 barrels of oil; however, video footage (see above video) clearly shows oil continuing to flow in enormous quantities into the Gulf of Mexico. In a Washington Post<\/em> <\/span>article<\/span><\/a>, Adm. Thad W. Allen said \u201cthe company is working to increase the production so that it can finish slowly closing vents in the containment cap that are allowing oil to billow out.\u201d For a live video and news feed of the Deep Horizon oil leak, <\/span>visit<\/span><\/a> WKRG.com Live Oil Spill Cam.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, <\/span>testing<\/span><\/a> Darwin\u2019s naturalization hypothesis, <\/span>debating<\/span><\/a> sustainable food security, corals <\/span>buffering<\/span><\/a> Pacific islands from rising sea levels, weighing in on the environmental impact of <\/span>eggs<\/span><\/a> and two new species of <\/span>frogs<\/span><\/a> discovered amidst amphibian plague.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists document cricket predation and reproduction, protestors cancel Oscar-winning anti-dolphin-hunting documentary in two Tokyo theaters, study describes the process of developing resistance to H1N1 treatments and researchers debate the possibility of achieving sustainable agriculture worldwide. Here is ecology in the news from the first week in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[110,814,52,815,769,55,56,816,817,218,818],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-agriculture","tag-cricket","tag-deepwater-horizon","tag-documentary","tag-dolphins","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-gulf-oil-spill","tag-h1n1","tag-hunting","tag-japan","tag-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}