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Daily rhythms in food intake and locomotor activity in a colony of domestic cats
Abstract Background Daily rhythms have been widely investigated in various mammals but, surprisingly, literature is scarce and conflicting regarding the domestic cat, Felis... -
Cold spell en route delays spring arrival and decreases apparent survival in ...
Abstract Background Adjusting the timing of annual events to gradual changes in environmental conditions is necessary for population viability. However, adaptations to weather... -
Effect of temperature on the Bulinus globosus — Schistosoma haematobium system
Abstract Background Given that increase in temperature may alter host-parasite relationships, the anticipated rise in temperature due to global warming might change transmission... -
Transcriptionally promiscuous "blurry" promoters in Tc1/mariner transposons a...
Abstract Background We have recently described a peculiar feature of the promoters in two Drosophila Tc1-like elements, Bari1 and Bari3. The AT-richness and the presence of weak... -
Enantiomer discrimination in β-phenylalanine degradation by a newly isolated ...
Abstract Despite their key role in numerous natural compounds, β-amino acids have rarely been studied as substrates for microbial degradation. Fermentation of the newly isolated... -
Individual variation of the masticatory system dominates 3D skull shape in th...
Abstract Background Within-species skull shape variation of marsupial mammals is widely considered low and strongly size-dependent (allometric), possibly due to developmental... -
Origin, evolution and conservation of the honey bees from La Palma Island (Ca...
Genetic studies have shown a significant hybridization of local populations of Apis mellifera in the Canary Islands, as a consequence of queen importation. Since La Palma Island... -
Where to spot: individual identification of leopard cats (Prionailurus bengal...
Abstract Knowledge of abundance, or population size, is fundamental in wildlife conservation and management. Camera-trapping, in combination with capture-recapture methods, has... -
Genomic abundance and transcriptional activity of diverse gypsy and copia lon...
Abstract Background Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are highly abundant in plant genomes and require transcriptional activity for their proliferative mode of... -
Impact of a genetic counseling requirement prior to genetic testing
Abstract Background Genetic counseling by a Genetic Counselor (GC) is a requirement prior to genetic testing for cancer susceptibility genes (GC-mandate policy) for some... -
Production of human pro-relaxin H2 in the yeast Pichia pastoris
Abstract Background Initially known as the reproductive hormone, relaxin was shown to possess other therapeutically useful properties that include extracellular matrix... -
Impact of low sperm competition on male reproductive trait allometries in a b...
Abstract Background Studying reproductive trait allometries can help to understand optimal male investment strategies under sexual selection. In promiscuous mating systems,... -
Identification of non-conserved residues essential for improving the hydrocar...
Abstract Background Cyanobacteria produce hydrocarbons corresponding to diesel fuels by means of aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase (ADO). ADO catalyzes a difficult and unusual... -
Tree frog attachment: mechanisms, challenges, and perspectives
Abstract Tree frogs have the remarkable ability to attach to smooth, rough, dry, and wet surfaces using their versatile toe pads. Tree frog attachment involves the secretion of... -
High-Quality draft genome sequence of the Lotus spp. microsymbiont Mesorhizob...
Abstract Mesorhizobium loti strain CJ3Sym was isolated in 1998 following transfer of the integrative and conjugative element ICEMlSymR7A, also known as the R7A symbiosis island,... -
Progression of the smoking epidemic in high-income regions and its effects on...
Abstract Background Of all lifestyle behaviours, smoking caused the most deaths in the last century. Because of the time lag between the act of smoking and dying from smoking,... -
Sex-specific changes in gene expression in response to estrogen pollution aro...
Abstract The synthetic 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) is a common estrogenic pollutant that has been suspected to affect the demography of river-dwelling salmonids. One possibility... -
Transient expression analysis of synthetic promoters containing F and D cis-a...
Abstract Introduction of a foreign gene coding for a pathogen resistant protein into the target plant and constitutive expression of Resistance (R) proteins may confer high... -
Sex differences in the trajectories of and factors related to extracurricular...
Abstract Background Extracurricular sport participation and exercise (ESPE) refers to regular exercise/sport participation in addition to the physical education in school among... -
Internal migration of physicians who graduated in Brazil between 1980 and 2014
Abstract Background The internal migration of physicians from one place to another in the same country can unbalance the supply and distribution of these professionals in...
