JEB is 90!

JEB is 90!

Inside Jeb

It’s a depressingly familiar sight when an oil well blows or a tanker runs aground: thousands of stranded, helpless animals wallowing in cloying crude oil. ‘Birds are often used as the poster children for the deadly effects of oil’, says Ivan Maggini from Western University, Canada, recalling the shocking images of struggling animals that accompanied the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill...

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In the early 1930s Carl Pantin spent several months at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples studying neuromuscular transmission in crustacea. These investigations reached a convenient stopping point several weeks before Pantin was to return to England, and he cast about for something else to do in the meantime. The previous occupant of the laboratory in which he was working had left some sea anemon...

Inside JEB i THE GENOMIC

The history of biology is peppered with groundbreaking discoveries: Charles Darwin’s publication of ‘The Origin of Species’, the determination of the structure of DNA, and, in 2000, the sequence of the human genome was finally added to this illustrious roll call. Two international teams of scientists announced that they had decoded the blueprint of life, but what exactly did the human genome te...

Inside JEB i WHALE LUNGES

Returning briefly to the surface for great lungfuls of air, whales’ lifestyles had been a complete mystery until a small group of pioneers from various global institutions – including Malene Simon, Mark Johnson and Peter Madsen – began attaching datalogging tags to these enigmatic creatures. Knowing that Jeremy Goldbogen and colleagues had successful tagged blue, fin and humpback whales to reve...