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DETECTION OF SUGARCANE YELLOW LEAF LUTEOVIRUS OF INDIA
A luteovirus was found associated with midrib yellowing symptoms of sugarcane in India. The virus was earlier identified as sugarcane yellow leaf virus (SCYLV) on the basis of particle morphology a…
Received 02 July 2009 05:39 GMT; Posted 02 July 2009
Posted to: Plant Biology
Designing nature reserves in the face of uncertainty
Conservation reserves are one of the most important tools for managing biodiversity. Ever since Diamond, based on theory of island biogeography, proposed that a single large reserve was preferable …
Received 02 July 2009 04:47 GMT; Posted 02 July 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Natural Biomolecules from Marine Snail Telescopium telescopium and structure of its sperm: A Phylogenetic Study
Abstract:Biochemical analysis of the cytosol fraction isolated from the ovotestis / spermatheca glands of marine mollusc Telescopium telescopium and it’s sperm microtubular structure revealed tha…
Received 30 June 2009 06:51 GMT; Posted 01 July 2009
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology
Insular gigantism and dwarfism in a snake, adaptive response or spandrel to selection on gape size?
In biology, spandrels are phenotypic traits that evolve through their underlying developmental, genetic, and/or structural links to another trait under selection1, 2, 3. Despite the importance of…
Received 22 June 2009 01:44 GMT; Posted 01 July 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
Cyclin kinase inhibitor p21: a mediator of immune tolerance: direct and indirect evidence
Background: Uncontrolled proliferation of T-cells is considered a barrier to the induction of transplantation tolerance by T regulatory cells. Therefore, cyclin kinase inhibitor p21, one of the m…
Received 26 June 2009 19:28 GMT; Posted 29 June 2009
Posted to: Immunology
Evolutionary game theory and the evolution ofneuron populations, ring rates, and decisionmaking
Ours, is the first application of dynamical evolutionary games to decision making in neuroscience. Firing neurons are the players. The strategy is their firing rate. Neurons with equal firing rates…
Received 25 June 2009 19:02 GMT; Posted 29 June 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Transformation of metabolism with age and lifestyle in Antarctic seals: a case study of systems biology approach to cross-species microarray experiment
Background: The metabolic transformation that changes Weddell seal pups born on land into aquatic animals is not only interesting for the study of general biology, but it also provides a model …
Received 28 June 2009 22:50 GMT; Posted 29 June 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Bioinformatics
Development of a new method to preserve caprine cauda epididymal spermatozoa in-situ at -10 degrees Centigrade
Electrolyte free mediums prepared with soybean lecithin-glycerol,Coenzyme Q10–glycerol and soybean lecithin-Coenzyme Q10-glycerol were inoculated separately into ligated cauda epididymides, equilib…
Received 26 June 2009 10:03 GMT; Posted 26 June 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology
An evaluation of taxonomic name finding & next steps in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) developments
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an international consortium of natural history libraries that are actively scanning scientific literature from their collections and publishing the digiti…
Received 25 June 2009 18:08 GMT; Posted 26 June 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment
Independent elaboration of steroid hormone signaling pathways in Metazoans
Steroid hormones regulate many physiological processes in vertebrates, nematodes and arthropods through binding to nuclear receptors (NR), a metazoan-specific family of ligand-activated transcripti…
Received 25 June 2009 20:26 GMT; Posted 26 June 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment, Evolutionary Biology
