Credit: Gan Cheong Weei
A new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and the City College of New York (CCNY) has identified a unique, genetic mimicry switch that determines whether or not male and female Elymnias hypermnestra palmflies mimic the same or different species of butterflies. The results indicate that sexual dimorphism has repeatedly emerged in different palmfly populations, and linked the trait to a gene associated with melanin localization and regulation.
Published on Jan. 13 in the journal
Royal Proceedings of the Academy B, these results can help scientists start to better understand the genetics underlying phenotypic differences between males and females in the animal kingdom, investigators say.
January 11, 2021 | by the Office of Marketing and Communications
Operation Warp Speed, the massive public-private effort to develop and distribute the COVID-19 vaccine in record time, poses one of today’s most urgent and complicated supply chain challenges.
A panel of experts will explore those challenges, and what it takes to get the vaccines from the factory to the front lines, during
A Look Inside Operation Warp Speed and the Coronavirus Vaccine Supply Chain. Presented by the M.S. in Supply Chain Management program at Elmhurst University, the panel discussion will take place virtually on Thursday, Jan. 21.
Tim Engstrom (MSCM ’03), Elmhurst University’s executive in residence and a faculty member in the Department of Business and Economics, will moderate the discussion. The panelists include:
After one hell of a year 10 New Year’s resolutions to stay on top of the world in 2021 MarketWatch 1/9/2021
Before 2020, Russell Jessop knew the wisdom in having emergency savings tucked away.
But the year’s financial mayhem supplied him and millions more with a harrowing master class on that point.
“It’s just unbelievable how fast things can change,” said the 23-year-old pipe welder working in North Dakota’s oil wells and natural gas facilities. From month to month, even week to week, “the landscape of your life can be world apart,” Jessop said.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would agree; data from the country’s central bank showed 40% of the jobs under $40,000 that existed in February were gone by March in an economy buckling from the pandemic.
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