Abstract Background Habitat specialists living in human-dominated landscapes are likely to be affected by habitat fragmentation and human disturbances more than generalists.But there is a paucity of information on their response to such factors.We examined the effect of these factors on movement patterns of red pandas Ailurus fulgens, a habitat and

Maize (Zea mays L.) protein is considered to be of low quality due to low levels of the essential lysine and tryptophan amino acids.An alternative to solve this problem is to use the opaque-2 gene, which improves the level of these amino acids, but has negative pleiotropic effects on agronomic characters.A phenotypic recurrent selection scheme was

Abstract Background Mice with genetic deficiencies in adaptive immunity are used for the grafting of human cells or pathogens, to study human diseases, however, the innate immune responses to xenografts in these mice has received little attention.Using the NOD/SCID Plasmodium falciparum mouse model an analysis of innate defences responsible for the

Abstract Drilling in Barents Sea proves to be a challenging task, as this region is situated in auroral zones having high geomagnetic latitude, where magnetic interferences develop from magnetic field and magnetic materials inside subsurface are quite common.For this region, monitoring of magnetic field is utterly significant as any fluctuations ca

BackgroundMicrobial communities in floral nectar have been shown to be characterized by low levels of species diversity, yet little is known about among-plant population variation in microbial community composition.Methodology/principal findingsWe investigated the microbial do not enter under construction sign community structure (yeasts and bacter