Key takeaways Venus Flytrap's Survival Strategy: The Venus flytrap, thriving in nutrient-poor swamps of the Carolinas, captures and consumes small animals due to deficient nutrients. It uses snap ...

The Wingless (Wg) signaling pathway is known to be responsible for one of these constrictions, but until now the underlying mechanism regulating this was not known.

This calcium signal is the trigger and at the same time an integral part of an action potential. Heat jumps cause the same calcium-dependent electrical events in the sensory hairs as touch. "To track ...