"These traits likely gave anglerfish an edge in exploiting scarce resources and navigating the extreme conditions of their environment, although we don't have strong evidence directly linking this diversity to this kind of resource specialization."

Other traits that appear to increase extinction risk, such as body size, wing shape and ecological specialization, are also associated with island insularity.

The two electrochemical reactors work in series -- first converting CO2 to CO, then CO to multi-carbon products -- which allows the system to be more efficient through task specialization.

The atlas is an important new resource in understanding brain development, neuron specialization and other brain functions.

That kind of specialization can ultimately “help philanthropy listen better” to grantees and their causes, says Enright.