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Obesity as a perceived social signal
Fat accumulation has been classically considered as a means of energy storage. Obese people are theorized as metabolically ‘thrifty’, saving energy during times of food abundance. However, recent r…
Received 23 December 2008 05:47 UTC; Posted 23 December 2008
Posted to: Ecology
Hypercytokinemia: Increased or decreased innate immunity?
The adipose tissue is an active endocrine organ which secretes proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines resulting into raised serum levels. Hypercytokinemia has been interpreted as raised level of …
Received 23 December 2008 05:29 UTC; Posted 23 December 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Immunology
Money handling influences BMI: a survey of cashiers
Money is a recent phenomenon in the evolutionary history of man and therefore no separate brain centre to handle money is likely to have evolved. The brain areas activated by food reward and money …
Received 22 December 2008 04:51 UTC; Posted 22 December 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Neuroscience
Bioluminescence emissions of firefly Luciola praeusta Kiesenwetter 1874 (Coleoptera : Lampyridae : Luciolinae)
In vivo emission and time-resolved spectra of firefly Luciola praeusta Kiesenwetter 1874 (Coleoptera : Lampyridae : Luciolinae) have been recorded. The emission spectrum shows the FWHM value fo…
Received 08 December 2008 08:32 UTC; Posted 08 December 2008
Posted to: Ecology
Scaling of soaring seabirds and its implication for the maximum size of flying pterosaurs
The flight ability of animals is restricted by the scaling effects imposed by physical and physiological factors. In comparisons of the power available from muscle and the mechanical power required…
Received 04 December 2008 01:55 UTC; Posted 05 December 2008
Posted to: Ecology
Description of a method for localizing swarming mosquitoes and other insects in 3D space with visualizations
Male mosquitoes swarm to find mates, but the characteristics of these swarms have not yet been quantitatively analyzed in the field. This paper describes a simple method used recently to localize i…
Received 03 December 2008 13:20 UTC; Posted 04 December 2008
Posted to: Biotechnology, Ecology
Visualising a scientific article
This paper describes my entry in the Elsevier Grand Challenge “Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences” contest. The entry takes a collection of fulltext issues of _Molecular Phylogenetics and …
Received 28 November 2008 16:15 UTC; Posted 28 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics
The genetic equidistance result of molecular evolution is independent of mutation rates
The well-established genetic equidistance result shows that sister species are approximately equidistant to a simpler outgroup as measured by DNA or protein dissimilarity. The equidistance result …
Received 24 November 2008 19:59 UTC; Posted 25 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Breeding biology of pond heron in Kerala, South India
Regular intensive investigations to locate nesting colonies were carried out early monsoon of 1999 up to 2002. For detailed study a few breeding colonies were selected. The nesting trees, nest char…
Received 22 November 2008 13:49 UTC; Posted 24 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology
Spatiotemporal dynamics of complex ecological networks: Power-law scaling and implications for conservation planning
Spatial constraints on the topology of complex networks are just beginning to be appreciated, both theoretically and in concrete examples like the Internet and global air transportation network. Ec…
Received 21 November 2008 16:19 UTC; Posted 24 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
