It says Germany's universities aren't visible enough on the international academic scene. The competition to attract foreign students is fierce, and although Germany has more students from abroad than ever before - it still lags behind the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. A highly conserved mechanism used during the development of zebrafish and fruitfly eyes points to a common evolutionary origin of animal eyes. The eyes of vertebrates and invertebrates are structurally so different that it has been believed they evolved independently. First steps in the molecular identification of SK channels and their role in neuronal signal encoding.
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