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Biomechanics and ecology of sticky capture fluids in carnivorous plants (Nepenthes)
Biomechanics of insect cleaning devices
Butterflies, behaviour and buffering: investigating the interaction between fine-scale habitat use, temperature and behaviour in UK butterflies
Defining the blueprint of the ancestral vertebrate brain
Epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms mediating neuronal plasticity
Managing oil palm plantations for greater arthropod biodiversity
Palaeontological and developmental approaches for resolving vertebrate phylogenetics and character evolution
The wider ecosystem benefits of managing for soil health on UK farms
Title of project Trading off chemical and physical defences: How do specialist caterpillars cope with stiff and sharp plant trichomes?
Understanding the impacts of insect decline on ecological function and human well-being
Mechanisms for developing stable networks
Motor network connectivity – wiring motifs and function
Regulation of dendritic and synaptic plasticity by metabolic reactive oxygen species
Critical periods and network tuning
The ancient past of Africa: reconstructing paleobiomes over the last 800k years
Co-evolution of colour vision and coloration in colourful songbirds
Evolution of red carotenoid coloration in birds
Predicting the Evolution of Influenza
Exploring the function of bimolecular condensates in translational regulation
Establishing the mechanism of the calcium wave at egg activation
Testing the function of calcium in programmed cell death
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The Bidders: a Cambridge zoological family.
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