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A stable backbone for the fungi
Fungi are abundant in the biosphere. They have fascinated mankind as far as written history goes and have considerably influenced our culture. In biotechnology, cell biology, genetics, and life sci…
Received 24 February 2009 09:27 UTC; Posted 25 February 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics
Events of reclaiming marshes for rice fields between 7000BP and 4500 BP in east China
Discovery of the oldest rice fields at the Tianluoshan site in east China has provided data of recovering reclaimation, cultivation, and the ecological system of rice fields between 7000BP and 4500…
Received 05 February 2009 02:39 UTC; Posted 07 February 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Analysis of Endocrine Disruption in Southern California Coastal Fish using an Aquatic Multi-Species Microarray
BACKGROUND: Endocrine disruptors include plasticizers, pesticides, detergents and pharmaceuticals. Turbot and other flatfish are used to characterize the presence of chemicals in the marine envir…
Received 28 January 2009 02:08 UTC; Posted 02 February 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Earth & Environment
Bias in culture-independent assessments of microbial biodiversity in the global ocean
On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequencing, the SAR11 clade of marine bacteria has almost universal distribution, being detected as abundant sequences in all marine provinces. Yet SAR11 sequences are…
Received 27 January 2009 09:23 UTC; Posted 29 January 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Microbiology
Cattle Egrets and dry fish business in coastal areas
Cattle Egret is one of the common wetland birds in India known for its efficiency to make use of human interfered habitats. The present study is an attempt to document maggots of houseflies and cal…
Received 20 January 2009 07:31 UTC; Posted 20 January 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Palaeobathymetry of the Abderaz Formation using foraminifera, Iran
Abderaz Formation at its type section with an age of Turonian-early Campanian and a thickness of 300 m contains light grey shale and marl. The study of the planktonic foraminifera in isolated form …
Received 14 January 2009 18:18 UTC; Posted 21 January 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Narrow genetic and apparent phenetic diversity in Jatropha curcas: initial success with generating low phorbol ester interspecific hybrids
Due to the increasing popularity of Jatropha curcas as a feedstock for biodiesel, generating non-toxic and high yielding varieties of the plant requires genotypic characterization towards identifyi…
Received 13 January 2009 09:17 UTC; Posted 16 January 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
3D model of lamprey estrogen receptor with estradiol and 15α-hydroxy-estradiol
Lamprey, a basal vertebrate, contains orthologs of the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor and corticoid receptor. A perplexing property of lamprey is that 15α-hydroxy-steroids are…
Received 09 January 2009 02:16 UTC; Posted 09 January 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Earth & Environment
Skeletal Evidence for Leprosy in India by the Second Millenium B.C.
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae that affects almost 500,000 people worldwide1. The timing of first infection, geographic origin, and pattern of transmissi…
Received 02 January 2009 22:35 UTC; Posted 06 January 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Social Processing of Discrete Emotions in Humans
I asked human observers to rate capacity and trustworthiness trait impressions of, and to indicate affiliative and avoidant dispositions, and felt emotive responses toward social objects. I show th…
Received 27 December 2008 16:40 UTC; Posted 28 December 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Neuroscience
