ecology evolution and biodemography

... Reticulate evolution and genets 5.3 Reticulate evolution and human burden bearers 5.3.1 Reticulate evolution and the donkey 5.3.2 Reticulate evolution and the water buffalo 5.4 Reticulate evolution and ... Reticulate evolution of drugs 5.6.1 Reticulate evolution and atropine 5.6.2 Reticulate evolution and essential oils 5.6.3 Reticulate evolution and chocolate 5.6.4 Reticulate evolution and tobacco ... evolution and shellfish 6.2.2 Reticulate evolution and fish: trout 6.2.3 Reticulate evolution and fish: peacock bass 6.2.4 Reticulate evolution and fish: cod 6.2.5 Reticulate evolution and fish:...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 06:00

... Challenges, and Long-Term Research The Study Area and the Goat Population 17 Caw Ridge Study Methods and Limitations 36 Home Ranges, Forage Availability, and Habitat Use 48 Social Organization 71 Body and ... Reproductive Strategy and Ungulate Population Dynamics 191 12 Management and Conservation of Mountain Goats 204 13 Long-Term Monitoring of Marked Individuals and Advances in Ecology and Conservation ... success, and of the relationships between behavioral ecology and population dynamics We set out to determine what factors affect individual differences in survival and female reproductive success and, ...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... heterogeneous landscapes Landscape Ecology 5:239-253 LaBarbera, M 1989 Analyzing body size as a factor in ecology and evolution Annual Reviews Ecology and Systematics 20:97-117 Lam, N S.-N., and D A ... for landscape analysis: object-specific analysis and upscaling Landscape Ecology 16:471-490 Jelinski, D E., and J Wu 1996 The modifiable areal unit problem and implications for landscape ecology ... environment, hydrological and biogeochemical dynamics in complex landscapes, and land-water and land-atmosphere interactions on various scales To adequately understand and predict such phenomena...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... available sequences To understand the emergence and evolution of these globins, we have sequenced new annelid extracellular and intracellular globin polypeptides, cDNAs and genes such as (a) the ... globins of annelids, molluscs and arthropods, we address here a likely evolutionary scenario for the origin of extracellular and intracellular globins in annelids To complete and strengthen the phylogenetic ... (accession numbers AJ880690 and AJ880691 for cDNAs, Q53I65 and Q53I64 for amino-acid sequences) were aligned and compared with other globins in the multiple sequence alignment (Fig and Table 1) The sequence...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... is based ation and late twentieth-century attempts to resynthesize evolution and on chemistry and physics and the close study of cells, and hence more sol­ development and lately ecology as well ... and J Maienschein 2007b Embryos, cells, genes, and organisms: A few reflections on the history of evolutionary developmental biology In R Sansom and R N Brandon, eds., Integrating Evolution and ... In F M Wuketits and F J Mayr, E 1958 Behavior and systematics I n A Roe and G G Simpson, eds., Behavior Ayala, eds., Handbook of Evolution, vol 2, 87- 1 San Diego: Wiley and Evolution, 341-362...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... up-to-date review of evolutionary thinking in the social sciences 15 J.C Smuts (1985) [1928], Holism and Evolution, p.185 Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za Evolution and Science at the Inception ... biological and psychological science provided no warrant for the easy assumption of racial superiority.27 And in Smuts and J.H Hofmeyr they found politicians whose appreciation and understanding ... laid on practical work Only in the final grades (Standards and 10, or grades 11 and 12 as they are now known), and only in 1947, was the topic of evolution inserted by way of a brief study of leading...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Box G-W, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 USA Thompson, John N Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Marine Sciences ... Differences in the relative abundances of banded and unbanded morphs between mainland and island populations, and among young-of-the-year, juvenile, and adult individuals, suggest that the probability ... effective updates and insights that will, we hope, encourage cross-fertilization Evolutionary ecology is a very broad and diverse field that includes much of modern ecology and evolutionary biology...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... (Nowak and Sigmund, 1998a) In a world of binary moral judgements (Nowak and Sigmund, 1998b; Leimar and Hammerstein, 12 THEORETICAL ECOLOGY 2001; Fishman, 2003; Panchanathan and Boyd, 2003; Brandt and ... species we see on an island, and how does this number depend on the size and isolation of the island? Gilbert White’s question of population abundance was revisited and expanded beyond the sterile ... where you cannot understand the population dynamics without understanding the evolution of individual’s behaviour, and conversely (Nee and May, 1993)—but they are few, and seem to have evoked...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... Century)—recalled a man who “loved to go out and walk and talk and study the life on the beach and in the tide pools and see what you could discover in there and how it changed.” He was also the first ... can be monitored and measured to assess physical and metabolic interactions within and among microbial communities and between human and microbial cells One such important, and measurable, characteristic ... development and land use • Human demographics and behavior • International travel and commerce • Technology and industry • Breakdown of public health measures 2003 • Microbial adaptation and change...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... Kinetic rates and affinity constants of the soluble proteins corresponding to the scFvs 3F and C1 Kinetic rates and KD were calculated using BIA-EVALUATION v 3.2 software SE, standard error scFv ... 272 (2005) 2591–2601 ª 2005 FEBS Clones 3F and C1 did not show the required affinity and ⁄ or functional stability to be neutralizing Directed evolution and phage display were used to improve these ... changes (Thr152Ile and Ser197Gly) occurred at frameworks and 3, respectively, and the third (Tyr164Phe), occurred at CDR1 (Table 2) Antibody 6009F was expressed in Escherichia coli and the presence...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... are mainly necrotic, with no obvious tuberculous histology, and are teeming with tubercle bacilli The spleen and liver may be enlarged and studded with irregular necrotic foci, usually less than ... are absent and the tuberculin test may be negative The most common presentation is with the insidious onset of weight loss, malaise and a fever of unknown origin Anemia is usual and the ESR ... leucoerythroblastic anaemia and polycythemia, have been seen The liver function tests are commonly disturbed, with elevation of transaminases and alkaline phosphatase Hyponatremia and hypokalemia are...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... Bouvrain and George D Koufos 22 The paleoecology of the Pikermian Biome and the savanna myth Nikos Solounias, J Michael Plavcan, Jay Quade and Lawrence Witmer 23 Vicariance biogeography and paleoecology ... Made, J & Bernor, R L 1996 Middle and late Miocene Suoidea of Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean: Evolution, biogeography, and paleoecology In The Evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene ... conWguration of the Old World land masses, and the successive drying of inland seas in the European area facilitated faunal interchange between Europe and Central Asia and Africa At the same time,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 17:20

... pasture and cropland have declined After World War II, mules and horses were retired by tractors, and surplus pasture lands went into cropland or succeeded to loblolly pine and hardwoods (Boyce and ... a landscape with other forest types, and true mixed-species stands The first was a patch mosaic having nearly pure stands of longleaf pine on south slopes and upland ridges Both Mohr (1896) and ... percentages of land in cropland and forest are the net result of a complexity of changes that include forest succession of abandoned cropland on small uncompetitive farms between 1940 and 1965, and clearing...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 17:20

... the master and places them in the hands of the exhibitors The distributor manages the physical flow of potentially thousands of copies of the movie, arranges promotional activities, and collects ... attendance and revenues for the major studios over the same period and tells a similar story with a significant decline in attendance and (real) revenues in the 1950s I return to this point, and its ... distribution fees and expenses These include (1) the distribution fee (30 percent United States and Canada, 35 percent the United Kingdom, and 40 percent elsewhere), (2) direct advertising and publicity...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:21

... its source (Ehrlich and Raven, 1969; Moore, 1976) and insects have been shown to carry viable pollen for several kilometres (Ellstrand and Marshall, 1985; Devlin and Ellstrand, 1990) Many seeds ... natural and crop evolution are intimately associated Much more of the crop information is incorporated in the early evolutionary discussions, and I take greater pains to describe the evolutionary ... of nature and crop evolution In the second half of the book, I focus on when and where crops were domesticated and the types of changes associated with their domestication Chapters and give an...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:10

... : EVOLUTION AND DOMESTICATION Molecular Evidence and the Evolutionary History of the Domesticated Sunflower Loren H Rieseberg and Abigail V Harter Molecular Evidence of Sugarcane Evolution and ... dating and molecular techniques as well as archaeological (Kirch, 2000) and linguistic data (Diamond and Bellwood, 2003) and building on the hypotheses of Vavilov and Harlan to study crop origins and ... Press, Oxford, uk PA R T Genetics and Origin of Crops Evolution and Domestication Loren H Rieseberg and Abigail V Harter CHAPTER Molecular Evidence and the Evolutionary History of the Domesticated...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:10

... both bland readings and preposterous readings of any such claim According to the bland readings, it is possible (and desirable ) to unify chemistry and physics, biology and chemistry, and, yes, ... seems to challenge, and want to protect them For instance, I want to protect the campfire song, and what is beautiful and true in it, for my little grandson and his friends, and for their children ... variety of Homo sapiens we are: hairless and upright, with five fingers on each of two hands, speaking English and French and playing tennis and chess ) Evolution is not a process that was designed...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 01:16

... and Evolution, 96 Anagenesis, 97 Grades of Evolutionary Advancement, 99 Evolutionary Change, 99 Brain Evolution and Behavioral Adaptation, 100 Brain Size and Brain Allometry, 100 Brain Size and ... including Evolution and Variation,” Evolution and Adaptation of the Brain, Behavior, and Intelligence,” and “Theories of Brain Evolution, ” seek to dispel further the myth of scala naturae and to ... organization and evolution of the dorsal thalamus and dorsal pallium in the forebrain • A new and comprehensive overview of brain evolution in vertebrates that encompasses many of the evolutionary and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 17:28

... to Price’s equation and related formalisms, e.g by Wade and Kalisz (1990), Heisler and Damuth (1987), Endler (1986), Lande and Arnold (1983), and Rice (2004) 26 Evolution and the Levels of Selection ... number of outstanding philosophical debates over the levels of selection The ‘additivity criterion’ of Lloyd and Wimsatt Evolution and the Levels of Selection is discussed, as is Brandon’s ‘screening ... distinction between ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ altruism, and some related arguments of L Nunney about the correct way to Evolution and the Levels of Selection define individual and group selection Strongly...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:34

... New Zealand and in the Chatham Islands, habitats separated by about 800 km of Pacific Ocean The island populations were monophyletic, and probably dispersed from New Zealand to the islands by ... comparable body type and habitat (Roth, 1992; Grandcolas and Deleporte, 1994; Pellens and Grandcolas, 2003; WJB, unpubl obs.) Highly compressed morphotypes are associated THE ECOLOGY OF MORPHOT ... book and for spirited and productive discussions Anne Roth and the Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services at NCSU were instrumental in obtaining obscure references I thank Vince Burke and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:34