... Glc1Man9 species during chase experiments in MI8-5 cells in the presence of mM DIM MI8-5 cells in the presence of mM DIM were pulsed for h and chased in culture medium containing mM Glc and mM ... Glycoprotein fraction Most of the evidence for the occurrence of degradation signals involved in ERAD has been obtained by studying the effect of inhibitors of demannosylation (kifunensine and deoxymannojirimycine) ... lM kifunensine after a 20 preincubation G1M9 indicates oligomannosides containing one Glc, nine Man, and two GlcNAc residues M3, M4, M5, M8 and M9 indicate oligomannosides containing three, four,...
... effect of blocks was non-significant with a single exception of the flushing midpoint date, proving that the spatial arrangement of blocks used was very inefficient in handling the microenvironmental variation ... growth and adaptive traits in a provenance trial, and whether blocking can efficiently handle this variation MATERIALS AND METHODS The study is based on the analysis of the Slovak trial plot of the international ... remains how the variationin traits of interest can be linked with directly measurable environmental indicators The aim of this study was to clarify to what extent the spatial variationof environment...
... basal area (adding together the basal area of all stems); and equivalent diameter of each individual obtained from the total basal area at ground level During winter and spring of 2003 and 2004, prescribed ... Patterns of lightning-, and people-caused fires in Peninsular Spain, Int J Wildl Fire (1998) 103–115 [40] Vilà M., Terradas J., Sprout recruitment and self-thinning of Erica multiflora after clipping, ... areas of NE Spain, the abundance of these species is relatively low and they are either situated in the understory or they form small clumps in woods dominated mainly by Pinus or Quercus species...
... KM, Hotaling S, Schiebel A, Ashbaugh SE, Roberts SM, Collins JK Comparison of PCR, virus isolation, and indirect fluorescent antibody staining in the detection of naturally occurring feline herpesvirus ... through decreasing the extent of crowding Although vaccination with FHV-1 and FCV cannot lead to prevention of infection and viral shedding, this may reduce the overall severity of disease [16] ... many shelter cats have been infected with FHV-1 and they remain subclinical carriers after recovery At least 80% of infected cats remain latently infected and 29% of them shed virus spontaneously...
... leaves of Laurus azorica during warm and cold seasons Table II Average values and standard deviations of the Fv/Fm parameter in response to freezing temperatures in sun and shade leaves of Persea indica ... growing in the Canary Islands in order to understand whether the effect of freezing temperatures in the past could be the cause of their present confinement Chlorophyll fluorescence as an indicator ... assessment of frost damage in upper crown leaves (sun leaves) and inner crown leaves (shade leaves) during warm and cold seasons in Laurus azorica, Persea indica and Myrica faya Temperature of incipient...
... differentiation and this is reflected in the patterns ofvariation This variation is a combination of clinal variation (eg for bud set) and ecotypic variation (eg flushing, growth, form) Ecotypic variation ... between individuals within a stand and between populations (Yacine and Lumaret, 1989) Quercus suber The species is subdivided into intraspecific taxa depending upon the lifespan of leaves and duration ... as in the mountainous regions of Germany, both species are sympatric and show intensive introgression a Leaves A discussion of variability in these species is not possible without looking into...
... to that of sperm length to minimise the risk of breakage All details of this method are given in Joly (1987 and 1989) The sperm length of the 48 other species belonging to different taxa of the ... for species with longer sperm, e.g in D !n,elanogaster This method in addition to the use of saline solution instead of fixatives, probably explains the discrepancies between our data and some of ... Spermatozoan length inspeciesof the Drosophila affinis subgroup Am Midl Nat 90, 4859 Sivinski J (1984) Sperm in competition In: Sperm Competition and The Evolution of Animal Mating System (Smith...
... their ability to bind a number of heparin-binding proteins [28] In our search for allele-speci®c inhibitors based on singlenucleotide polymorphisms in target mRNA sequences using antisense PS-ODNs, ... vast amounts of active enzyme Reviews discussing PS-ODN-mediated inhibition of gene expression warn against erroneous interpretation of results caused by the protein-binding capacity of PS-ODNs ... ODN-mediated inhibition of gene expression in vivo This would be compatible with the ®nding that antisense ODNs can be very effective in inhibiting gene expression in the brain [44± 46] In both fetal and...
... Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Speciesin the Mekong Basin and Policies for Their Control The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Speciesin the Mekong Basin and Policies ... Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Speciesin the Mekong Basin and Policies for Their Control xii The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Speciesin the Mekong Basin and ... Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Speciesin the Mekong Basin and Policies for Their Control xiv The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Speciesin the Mekong Basin and...
... membrane was cut in strips, corresponding to the different molecular masses of MnSOD, CuZnSOD and actin, the last acting as an internal standard, and incubated with the corresponding antibody Forty ... expression and protein content of SOD (Figs 3–5) Antioxidant defences of q0 cell lines GSH-GSSG and GR We measured GSH and GSSG in exponentially growing cells, as GSH content changes in the growth and ... the gift of osteosarcoma q0 and q+cells, Dr I.J Holt for the gift of lung carcinoma q0 and q+ cells and we are grateful to Dr Aubrey de Grey for great help in interpreting and discussing the data...
... the radius of a circle to the beginning of early wood, R – the radius of a circle to the beginning of late wood, P – earlywood area in annual ring Total area of early wood rings within the sapwood ... than in other Kraft’s classes, and it results probably from the inferior crown access to light, thus resulting in an inadequate stimulation of the increase in conducting area In the opinion of ... death of parenchymal cell stabilizes the size of conducting area in trees of younger age classes, and then the cause and effect of the interrelationship in the transpiring organ – conducting area...
... Śląska) and provenance (Pelplin) (Fig 10) The comparison of means, using the analysis of variance, showed that when the effect of dbh and height was eliminated the mean values of tapering of individual ... stem profile variation Individual provenance regions differed in respect of the range ofvariationof relative diameters d0.05 at individual heights of the stem However, on the basis of a direct ... This was confirmed by results of the analysis of the tree form factors and tapering Relationship between stand density andvariationof the stem profile Using simple linear regression a slight,...
... containing four trees One systematic thinning was carried out (by removing every second tree in a row) in 1995 at the Platon site andin 1996 at the Windsor and Saint-Ours sites A subset of three ... density of individual and cumulated rings, minimum and maximum wood densities, ring width, and dry fiber weight of cumulated rings of poplar hybrids at the Saint-Ours site hybrids for weighted and ... trends invariation among hybrids A significant effect (P ă 0.003) by hybrid cross was shown by the joint ANOVA for variationof mean and minimum wood densities of cumulated and individual rings and...
... in uenced by any of the studied sources ofvariation DISCUSSION In spite of the difficulty in identifying ring boundaries and the resulting necessity in many cases of cross-examination with anatomical ... the innermost rings and increasing it in the outward rings Until the beginning of cork extraction the accumulation of extractives should contribute to the higher density values found in the innermost ... M and thicker lines for Y) Figure Variationof mean ring density with age for seven cork oak trees Figure Variationof latewood proportion in different growth rings Figure Variationof mean ring...
... for Abies alba in winter [24], high temperatures during the winter period could play a positive role in improving carbohydrate storage and growth of the following year Warming in winter could also ... observed in Finland [35, 36] andin Germany [50] where summer drought in uenced both latewood width and cell wall proportion in latewood In conclusion, annual growth variations of Abies alba and Picea ... occurred in 1977, 1969 and 1955 for Abies alba andin 1963 for Picea abies There were many points of agreement between these pointer years and monthly minimum temperature and annual water stress intensity...
... higher in the west of the mountain crest than in the eastern side, leading at a value of –20 mm of WB deficit in June for 400 m of altitude in the west side of the crest and 550 m of altitude in ... However, they can grow in a wide range of mineral soil conditions (i.e base saturation ratio and pH) in other mountainous areas andin particular in the inner Alps [7, 33, 52] In this area, it has ... tree species, stand production and stand nutrient amount, Ann For Sci 57 (2000) 313–324 Ecological response of tree speciesin the Vosges Mountains [4] Austin M.P., Spatial prediction of species...
... with an increment borer Health of stands (indications of decline) and silvicultural management (uneven-aged stand or recent thinnings) were recorded based on visual inspection In each stand, mean ... analysis As all tree species were not present on all sites and as the distribution of tree speciesin the sites was not random (e.g., the frequency of Scots pine stands was low in the less acidic ... Factors controlling understory cover and composition Silvicultural management, via thinning intensity, influenced canopy cover and subsequently cover of ground vegetation Tree species also influenced...
... noted in TC only Within TA and TK, however, a lower deficiency of heterozygotes was found than in their original stands Values of Ho (9.3 to 11.9%) andin particular He (2.3 to 3.2%) observed in ... (in Russian) [14] Korshikov I.I., Bychkov S.A., Comparative analysis of genetic variationin groups of P pallasiana trees, differing in the degree of injury due to the pollutants in the city of ... (Fig and Tab I) are: (a) the southern macro-slope of the main range of the Crimea mountains, natural stands coded C; (b) the Ukraine steppe near the town of Mariupol, close to the Azov Sea coast, ...
... collected mainly in only one area (Ovar, in the north of Portugal) This narrow genetic base and the danger of severe inbreeding became a concern when afforestation increased to provide in the growing ... found in 10 provenances of E grandis [26] andin provenances of E nitens [10] It is also similar to the between tree variation found in plantations using mixed seed lots, where coefficients of variations ... Total extractives were determined in a Soxhlet apparatus using a sequence of dichloromethane, ethanol and water Klason lignin and acid soluble lignin were determined following the relevant Tappi test...