... enabling plants and animals to leave the oceans, and survive and evolve on land ♦ Between 450 million years ago and 350 million years ago, land plants and amphibian animals began to appear, and oxygen ... Multi-celled organisms appeared, and some of these evolved into soft-bodied worm-like animals with a variety of organs, and still later into the first hard-shelled creatures capable of leaving fossils ♦ ... freezing and accelerating surface “weathering” Except for Oxygen, almost all of the Earth’s atmosphere today Evolutionof the Earth Process and Equation” its Atmosphere Disassociation of NH3 2NH3...
... Here we construct a phylogeny of 15 species of European Achrysocharoides, and use it to address questions in three areas First, we examine the evolutionof clutch size and sex allocation Godfray ... EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY Evolutionof host use and reproductive strategies Methods Parasitoid rearing and ecological data Leaves with fully developed Phyllonorycter mines were collected in 1999 and ... strategy with apparently parallel evolutionof the unusual split sex broods (and of mixed sex broods) in the latreillii and atys species groups (Fig 5) Two origins of split sex broods were also supported...
... consumption routines, skills and capabilities; the role of selection, replication, imitation and modification in their evolution; and finally, the role of random events and mutations This paper will ... potential role of wider consumption routines, skills and capabilities in the evolutionof demand through processes such as selection, replication, imitation and modification and through random 21 If ... the dominant form of popular entertainment This paper argues that the take-off of cinema was largely demand-driven, and that, in an evolutionary process, consumers allocated more and more expenditure...
... difference between maximum rates of transpiration (E and absorption is greatly ) max affected by the relative magnitude of root resistance The minimum value of leaves occurs leaves about h after ... h after (E at that time, transpiration ): max and absorption are equal This fact provides a means to obtain an estimation of the total resistance of the transpirational pathway (Fig 3) It is possible ... resistances and capacitance) of the equivalent circuit having the same transfer function (= transpiration versus absorption) This transformation allows those interested in water proportion balance of...
... Phylogeny of the marsupials Phylogenetic relationships of the orders of Marsupialia Top: the placement of the contemporary continents of South America and Australia within Gondwanaland and the split of ... Page of 25 Our analyses of these data shed light on mammalian reproduction, development and genome evolution: there is innovation in reproductive and lactational genes, rapid evolutionof germ ... interpretation of its genome and highlighted many novel aspects of marsupial evolution Sequencing and assembly (Meug_1) The genome of a female tammar of Kangaroo Island, South Australia origin...
... samples of ITM4 over a loads of years CD4+ T-cell numbers and viral perioddetected in follow up CD4+ T-cell numbers and viral loads detected in follow up plasma samples of ITM4 over a period of years ... that the clinical status of patient ITM4 was regularly followed between 2001 and 2007 by the team of medical doctors at the clinic of the Institute of Table 2: Overview of the selected mimotope ... [28] Genotypic Analysis of the MPER of ITM4 MPER sequences of clones per follow-up sample (n = 7) were generated and analyzed (Fig 5) For clones of samples ITM4_01.1 and ITM4_01.2 taken in 2001,...
... analysis of five of these above mentioned streptococcal species (S suis not included), focused on understanding the role of lateral gene transfer in shaping the genomes of each of these lineages, and ... additional purpose of this paper is to compare gene gain and loss within and between Streptococcus species, making use of the larger comparative data set of species and strains now available, and Genome ... general agreement with those of Hao and Golding [23], while also extending the estimates to additional taxa of Streptococcus, and lineages of S agalactiae and S pyogenes, and we would certainly concur...
... status of TFs and targets Association between the status of TFs and targets (a) Contingency tables of the presence or absence of TFs and their targets in S flexneri 2457T for both positive and negative ... the dynamics of the evolutionof transcription regulation, and demonstrate remarkable differences in the way in which the repertoires of activators and repressors evolve Results and discussion ... used the well characterized TRN of E coli K12 [9] and examined which of the genes from this TRN (genes encoding TFs and target genes of TFs) are present in each of 30 fully sequenced bacteria...
... The Evolutionof Monetary Policy and Banking in the US Donald D Hester The Evolutionof Monetary Policy and Banking in the US Donald D Hester Professor of Economics, Emeritus University of Wisconsin ... combination of the recent rate of inflation, the deviation of a four-quarter rate of inflation from the bank’s desired rate of inflation, and the deviation of the percentage growth rate of real GDP ... Secretary of the Treasury and other administration officials Of course, there is an imThe 1935 Banking Act changed titles Before the act the chief executive officer of a Federal Reserve Bank and the...
... mergers and acquisitions: What have we learned? In B.J Punnett, and O Shenkar (Eds.) 2nd Edition of Handbook of International Management Research, University of Michigan Press FIELDS OF STUDY ... internal and the external cost of capital is due to the information asymmetries between the inventor and the investor, moral hazard on the part of the inventor due to the separation of ownership and ... incumbents in their industries, and every firm has an existing base of capital 21 equal to (Megna and Klock, 1993) The MVi of the target firm is measured as the sum of all outstanding claims on the firm...
... concept of “Tree of- Life” is one of main elements of Charles Darwin’s theory ofevolution according to which the evolutionary relationships of the earth’s biodiversity, including all living and extinct ... CONTENTS Acknowledgements i Table of contents iv Summary ix List of Tables xi List of Figures xii List of Publications xv Introduction Chapter 1: Phylogeny andevolutionof host choice in the Hippoboscoidea ... some of the best times in evolab Thanks to all the other members of the evolab (past and current) who have helped and supported me at different stages and many of whom I have seen begin and finish...
... attitudes 406 CHAPTER EVOLUTIONOF GSM AND CDMAONE TO 3G SYSTEMS of engineers towards methods of multiple access The meagre spectrum of 1.25 MHz at the top of the AMPS band was just about adequate ... or simply IMT2000 It then abandoned all hope of the difficult political objective of a single standard, and has instead opted for a family of standards Each member of the family had to be able ... addition of address and control information to the PDU for routing within and between PLMNs Encapsulation, and its reverse, are performed between the GGSN nodes of PLMNs, and between the SGSN and...
... derived from the evolutionof this family Evolution based on domain reusing might explain the abundance of certain protein domains and is a way of easily increasing the number of TFs, as appears ... to the function and structure of TFs from available information From a structural point of view, the overabundance of self-interactions is associated with a majority group of 55% of basic helix–loop– ... with the exception of some TAFII and NC2 and NF-Y factors that have histone fold motifs [52] Group G is a small subset that contains all the SMAD proteins of the HTFN and APC and b-catenin-related...
... sequences of the purified enzymes, the mature forms of H japonicus and T scyllia DNases I were estimated to be composed of 262 and 263 residues, respectively Comparison of the primary structures of these ... expression of activity In order to examine the possible effect of the signal sequence region on the expression of activity, we constructed a series of chimeric Ó FEBS 2004 Molecular evolutionof vertebrate ... hydrophobicity profiles of the signal sequence regions of human, eel, frog, T scyllia and H japonicus DNases I However, prediction of the secondary structure of the corresponding part of the enzyme using...
... and cortical substrates of cognition in hominoids Journal of Human Evolution, 49, 547-569 Schoenemann, P T (2006) Evolutionof the size and functional areas of the human brain Annual Review of ... appearance of two novel cytoarchitectonic brain areas, and the clustering of a kind of neuron unique to great apes and humans THE PRODUCT OF GENES AND CULTURE The fact that structural and cytoarchitectonic ... their evolution is basic to understand the evolutionof aesthetic preference itself A comprehensive understanding of the evolutionof the human brain, as well as of certain specific regions, requires...
... of proteins for a highly specialized tissue Annu Rev Biochem 57, 479–504 de Jong WW & Bloemendal H (1981) Evolutionof lens and crystallins In Evolutionof Lens and Crystallins in Molecular and ... dynamic evolutionary history of b and c crystallins is part of the remarkably varied history of molecular modification of the lens in terrestrial vertebrates through the direct gene recruitment of ... All use of animals complied with the ARVO Statement for the Use of Animals in Ophthalmic and Vision Research and the Intramural Animal Care and Use program of the National Institutes of Health...
... composed of 12 HcA, 12 HcB, six HcC and six HcD polypeptides Thus the basic building block of the hemocyanin, the hexamer, most likely contains two copies of each HcA and HcB, and single copies of ... notion of the usefulness of hemocyanin sequences for the resolution of the arthropod phylogenetic tree [4,6] Myriapod hemocyanin subunit evolutionand diversity One of the most striking features of ... Biochem 270) Fig SDS/PAGE and immunoblotting of S coleoptrata hemocyanin About 10 lg of total hemolymph protein (HL) and lg of purified hemocyanin (Hc) were separated on SDS/PAGE and stained with Coomassie...
... one considers the evolutionof all of the enzymes of the pathway (Fig 4), it is clear that only about half of the enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the major pathway of carbon metabolism ... mitochondria and glyoxysomes, respectively [42,43] They usually have a molecular mass of 90 kDa and are typically homodimers of 45-kDa subunits [44,45] In the presence of Mg2+, glyoxysomal CS of plants ... aconitase, ICDH (NADP+), ICDH (NAD+) and the a and b subunits of STK (see text) Color coding of species names is as in Fig enzyme of plants branches within a cluster of eubacterial enzymes, suggesting...
... schemes The land and property rights of women and orphans 1.4 The legal framework affecting women’s land and property rights in Zimbabwe A wide variety of laws and policies pertaining to land and property ... disputes involving widows and other vulnerable women as well as the land rights The land and property rights of women and orphans of women returning to their natal homes and those of orphans Chapter ... districts of Uganda, Mugisha (2003) shows that only one woman did not have any land-related disputes following the death of her husband In a study of the impact of HIV and AIDS on land rights...