Molecular Cloning and Nucleotide Sequence of the 3
... The 3-IMDH gene of C. utilis was cloned and its nucleotide sequence was determined. This is the first report of the nucleotide sequence of a functional gene of C. utilis as far as we know. The sequence of 2209 bp was an alignment of four restriction fragments determined separately. The sequences of ...
... The 3-IMDH gene of C. utilis was cloned and its nucleotide sequence was determined. This is the first report of the nucleotide sequence of a functional gene of C. utilis as far as we know. The sequence of 2209 bp was an alignment of four restriction fragments determined separately. The sequences of ...
Characterization of Biodiversity
... variability among living organisms from all sources and the ecological systems of which they arc a part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems. Were life to occur on other planets, or living organisms to be rescued from fossils preserved millions of years ago, the ...
... variability among living organisms from all sources and the ecological systems of which they arc a part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems. Were life to occur on other planets, or living organisms to be rescued from fossils preserved millions of years ago, the ...
DNA Sequencing
... • The collection of fragments is a sequencing ladder. • The resulting terminated chains are resolved by electrophoresis. • Fragments from each of the four tubes are placed in four separate gel lanes. ...
... • The collection of fragments is a sequencing ladder. • The resulting terminated chains are resolved by electrophoresis. • Fragments from each of the four tubes are placed in four separate gel lanes. ...
AP Bio Directed Study – Summer Assignment Ecology: Chapters 50
... PRESENTATIONS – USE THE INTERNET TO FIND ACCURATE MATERIAL TO COMPLETE YOUR SUMMER STUDY. ...
... PRESENTATIONS – USE THE INTERNET TO FIND ACCURATE MATERIAL TO COMPLETE YOUR SUMMER STUDY. ...
Sequence Alignment - Mainlab Bioinformatics
... • Also known as dot plots, they represent the simplest method of evaluating similarity between two sequences • Identifies all possible matches of residues between the two sequences. • One sequence (A) is listed horizontally (top of page) and the other sequence (B) vertically (left side of page). • S ...
... • Also known as dot plots, they represent the simplest method of evaluating similarity between two sequences • Identifies all possible matches of residues between the two sequences. • One sequence (A) is listed horizontally (top of page) and the other sequence (B) vertically (left side of page). • S ...
Society for Conservation Biology
... sites and pathogens, it is important to accurately ascertain whether severe pathology is attributable to infectious disease before determining that the disease is of conservation concern. For example, of six viruses that infect lions (Panthera leo) in the Serengeti, only one, canine distemper virus, ...
... sites and pathogens, it is important to accurately ascertain whether severe pathology is attributable to infectious disease before determining that the disease is of conservation concern. For example, of six viruses that infect lions (Panthera leo) in the Serengeti, only one, canine distemper virus, ...
Population dynamics - The Deer Initiative
... No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action in reliance on or as a result of the material included in or omitted from this publication can be or is accepted by the author(s) ...
... No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action in reliance on or as a result of the material included in or omitted from this publication can be or is accepted by the author(s) ...
Phenotypic Plasticity
... This can be a directional change in the phenotype of partners, where exposure to certain cues activates genes in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 3). For example, in a mutualistic interaction, individuals may increase rewards in response to increased services from a partner, and this back-and-forth cha ...
... This can be a directional change in the phenotype of partners, where exposure to certain cues activates genes in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 3). For example, in a mutualistic interaction, individuals may increase rewards in response to increased services from a partner, and this back-and-forth cha ...
Phenotypic Plasticity in the Interactions and Evolution of Species
... This can be a directional change in the phenotype of partners, where exposure to certain cues activates genes in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 3). For example, in a mutualistic interaction, individuals may increase rewards in response to increased services from a partner, and this back-and-forth cha ...
... This can be a directional change in the phenotype of partners, where exposure to certain cues activates genes in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 3). For example, in a mutualistic interaction, individuals may increase rewards in response to increased services from a partner, and this back-and-forth cha ...
Seicercus and Phylloscopus the Old World leaf warblers ( The roles
... millions of years before present Figure 2. Phylogenetic relationships among all species of continental Eurasian Old World leaf warblers (Seicercus and Phylloscopus) from Johansson et al. (2007), with non-continental taxa pruned. The tree was built using both mitochondrial and nuclear genes and rate- ...
... millions of years before present Figure 2. Phylogenetic relationships among all species of continental Eurasian Old World leaf warblers (Seicercus and Phylloscopus) from Johansson et al. (2007), with non-continental taxa pruned. The tree was built using both mitochondrial and nuclear genes and rate- ...
Energetic Adaptations Along a Broad Latitudinal Gradient
... continues to emerge that local adaptations involving tradeoffs between growth and other physical or behavioral traits lead to different distributions of reaction norms among populations, with important consequences for patterns of community composition across broad environmental gradients. We are sp ...
... continues to emerge that local adaptations involving tradeoffs between growth and other physical or behavioral traits lead to different distributions of reaction norms among populations, with important consequences for patterns of community composition across broad environmental gradients. We are sp ...
University of Groningen Holism and reductionism in biology
... The Lotka/Volterra model is an extension of the logistic model with a term incorporating the effects of interspecific competition. To represent this we need to index the relevant parameters for different species. Let Ni therefore denote the population size of species Si, Nk the population size of sp ...
... The Lotka/Volterra model is an extension of the logistic model with a term incorporating the effects of interspecific competition. To represent this we need to index the relevant parameters for different species. Let Ni therefore denote the population size of species Si, Nk the population size of sp ...
Comparing growth patterns among field populations of cereal
... dirhodum (Walker), which is the dominant species on leaves and avoids the ears, Sitobion avenae (Fabricius), dominant on ears but also lives on leaves and Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus), which can colonize the whole plant. These aphids migrate to wheat, around mid-May, from their winter hosts: Rosa s ...
... dirhodum (Walker), which is the dominant species on leaves and avoids the ears, Sitobion avenae (Fabricius), dominant on ears but also lives on leaves and Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus), which can colonize the whole plant. These aphids migrate to wheat, around mid-May, from their winter hosts: Rosa s ...
Shift happens! Shifting balance and the evolution of diversity
... epistatic in such a way that many adaptive peaks would be found. The resultant ‘adaptive landscape’ would be rugged (Wright, 1932). He deduced that it would be almost impossible for natural selection alone, which can only aid climbing local adaptive peaks, ever to attain the fittest global peaks in ...
... epistatic in such a way that many adaptive peaks would be found. The resultant ‘adaptive landscape’ would be rugged (Wright, 1932). He deduced that it would be almost impossible for natural selection alone, which can only aid climbing local adaptive peaks, ever to attain the fittest global peaks in ...
Gerbils and Heteromyids – Interspecific Competition and the Spatio
... with the productivity of seed-producing annual plants (Abramsky 1988). Habitat selection of G. allenbyi and G. pyramidum (Rosenzweig and Abramsky 1986, Abramsky and Pinshow 1989) and the amount of time they are active (Mitchell et al. 1990) are both affected directly by the other species' density. T ...
... with the productivity of seed-producing annual plants (Abramsky 1988). Habitat selection of G. allenbyi and G. pyramidum (Rosenzweig and Abramsky 1986, Abramsky and Pinshow 1989) and the amount of time they are active (Mitchell et al. 1990) are both affected directly by the other species' density. T ...
Wilson et al. constrained lability in Penstemon and
... cpDNA data sets both yielded many equally parsimonious trees, and only a few nodes of the consensus trees were well supported as monophyletic by bootstraps. Disturbingly, the solutions for ITS and cpDNA were significantly different from one another, possibly because of introgression, so combining da ...
... cpDNA data sets both yielded many equally parsimonious trees, and only a few nodes of the consensus trees were well supported as monophyletic by bootstraps. Disturbingly, the solutions for ITS and cpDNA were significantly different from one another, possibly because of introgression, so combining da ...
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... traits, we can start looking at how they apply to colonial individuals such as eusocial insects and the community they take part in. Many colonies seem to maintain some sort of emergent equilibrium state. Colonial insects such as ants, wasps, bees, and termites can foster what Wilson refers to as “s ...
... traits, we can start looking at how they apply to colonial individuals such as eusocial insects and the community they take part in. Many colonies seem to maintain some sort of emergent equilibrium state. Colonial insects such as ants, wasps, bees, and termites can foster what Wilson refers to as “s ...
Constraints and tradeoffs: toward a predictive theory of competition and succession
... more carbon to the production of stem has less to allocate to roots, leaves or seeds. An animal that allocates more protein to flight muscle has less to allocate to a digestive system or to some other physiological or morphological function. An animal that allocates a greater proportion of its time ...
... more carbon to the production of stem has less to allocate to roots, leaves or seeds. An animal that allocates more protein to flight muscle has less to allocate to a digestive system or to some other physiological or morphological function. An animal that allocates a greater proportion of its time ...
Collapse of the world`s largest herbivores
... effects, and the conservation efforts needed to save them and their predators from extinction. Large herbivores are generally facing dramatic population declines and range contractions, such that ~60% are threatened with extinction. Nearly all threatened species are in developing countries, where ma ...
... effects, and the conservation efforts needed to save them and their predators from extinction. Large herbivores are generally facing dramatic population declines and range contractions, such that ~60% are threatened with extinction. Nearly all threatened species are in developing countries, where ma ...
American Burying Beetle Nicrophorus americanus
... When a suitable carcass is located the individual or pair will compete with other carrioneating insects for possession of the carcass until a single pair remains. The carcass then may be moved as far as a metre until soil suitable for excavation is reached, then buried before the dawn. The species i ...
... When a suitable carcass is located the individual or pair will compete with other carrioneating insects for possession of the carcass until a single pair remains. The carcass then may be moved as far as a metre until soil suitable for excavation is reached, then buried before the dawn. The species i ...
Environmental correlates of acorn production by four species of Minnesota oaks
... Model 1 used variables in Table 2; model 2 used those in Table 3. The models were then chosen as described in the text; the two best models in each category were then compared using AICc values. The sign in parentheses indicates whether the variable correlated positively (?) or negatively (-) with a ...
... Model 1 used variables in Table 2; model 2 used those in Table 3. The models were then chosen as described in the text; the two best models in each category were then compared using AICc values. The sign in parentheses indicates whether the variable correlated positively (?) or negatively (-) with a ...
Author`s personal copy - Nosil Lab of Evolutionary Biology
... Divergent natural selection: selection that either acts in contrasting directions between two populations, usually with reference to ecological differences between their environments (e.g. large body size confers high survival in one environment and low survival in the other), or that favors opposit ...
... Divergent natural selection: selection that either acts in contrasting directions between two populations, usually with reference to ecological differences between their environments (e.g. large body size confers high survival in one environment and low survival in the other), or that favors opposit ...