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Enhancing Jatropha Productivity by Canopy Management
Jatropha seed and oil yield is function of planting material used, growing conditions, plant architecture development and maintenance. Jatropha is hardy plant; thrives well in arid and semi arid re…
Received 30 August 2009 09:10 UTC; Posted 01 September 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Dating the cyanobacterial ancestor of the chloroplast
Cyanobacteria have played a pivotal role in the history of life on Earth being the first organism to carry out oxygenic photosynthesis, which changed atmospheric chemistry and allowed the evolution…
Received 28 August 2009 00:44 UTC; Posted 28 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology, Evolutionary Biology
Ecological dynamics and the basis of sympatric phenotypic diversification
Theoretical and empirical studies are showing evidence in support of evolutionary branching and sympatric speciation due to frequency‐dependent competition. However, phenotypic diversification due …
Received 21 August 2009 17:39 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
Water Quality and Pollution Status of Lararpur Reservoir with Special Reference to Bacterial Contamination
Laharpur dam was constructed in the southwest of Bhopal city, M.P., India with an objective to store water for irrigational purpose. At the time of planning and construction of the reservoir it was…
Received 18 August 2009 10:15 UTC; Posted 25 August 2009
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology
The hotspot conversion paradox
The contradiction between the long-term persistence of the chromosomal hotspots that initiate meiotic recombination and the self-destructive mechanism by which they act strongly suggests that our u…
Received 17 August 2009 20:07 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Evolutionary Biology
The joys and perils of recombination – The hotspot conversion paradox and the evolution of recombination
The contradiction between the long-term persistence of the chromosomal hotspots that initiate meiotic recombination and the self-destructive mechanism by which they act strongly suggests that our u…
Received 21 August 2009 20:11 UTC; Posted 21 August 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Evolutionary Biology
A Study on the Origin of Peroxisomes: Possibility of Actinobacteria Symbiosis
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Received 13 July 2009 06:05 UTC; Posted 16 July 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Evolutionary Biology
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 07:06 UTC; Posted 01 July 2009
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology
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 20:55 UTC; Posted 26 June 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment, 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 01:55 UTC; Posted 01 July 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
