Insights into the Biogeographical Patterns of Planktonic Diatom Diversity

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Habitats and adaptations As prolific phototrophic organisms, diatoms can live in the open ocean, polar waters, tropical waters, all fresh water areas, soil, snow and even glacial ice. During the course of evolution...

Relating sensory variability to brain state fluctuations

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Accuracy psychometric functions The tasks that subjects perform in psychophysical experiments typically require to report whether a target is present or absent in a stimulus (detection task), or whether two stimuli presented during...

GENOME-WIDE EVIDENCE FOR LOCAL DNA METHYLATION SPREADING FROM SMALL RNA TARGETED SEQUENCES IN ARABIDOPSIS

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Genomic Context of DNA Methylation Eukaryotic genomes consist not only of genic sequences but also of transposable elements (TEs), that are capable of moving to new locations and have a potential to increase...

Payment for environmental services in multi-output production processes 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Production and externalities The theory of (negative) externalities is in the core of environmental economics (van den Bergh, 2001). Externalities exist when the private costs (or benefits) to the producers (or purchasers) of...

EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT ORGANIC AMENDMENTS ON BANANA PARASITIC AND SOIL NEMATODE COMMUNITIES

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Soil, plant material, and organic amendments Soil was collected in the 0–20 cm layer of a banana field of Guadeloupe (16°N, 61°W) in June 2008. This soil was classified as Haplic Nitisol (IUSS...

PLANT CLIPPING DECELERATES THE MINERALIZATION OF RECALCITRANT SOIL ORGANIC MATTER UNDER MULTIPLE GRASSLAND SPECIES

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Interaction of C cycle with other cycles Six major elements-H, C, N, O, S and P- constitute the major building blocks for all biological macromolecules (Schlesinger WH, 1997). As a result of constitutional...

Thermodynamic equilibrium and detailed balance

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Toward a description of NESS? In this section, we review very brie y several tools that have been developed to describe out-of-equilibrium systems. Generalized detailed balance and uctuation theorem Even if the detailed...

Virus and Bacterial inoculation

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Modes of action RNAi is based on the action of RISC complex. Once the small RNAs of different sizes are processed, one of the duplex strands is loaded onto one or more AGO...

Bacterial strains and bacteriophages

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Cytoplasmic membrane The bacterial CM is composed of lipids assembled in a bilayer containing integral and peripheral membrane proteins, carbohydrates, ions (K+, Na+), and water (Finean et al., 1984). There is a large...

POPULATION PARTITIONING BETWEEN UNICELLULAR AND MULTICELLULAR STRATEGIES IN SOCIAL AMOEBAE D. DISCOIDEUM

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Transformation and Dyeing Cell transformation GFP and RFP expressing amoebae were obtained by transforming cells with pTX-­‐GFP (Levi et al. 2000) or pTX-­‐RFP plasmids (constructed in our lab) (Figure 2-­‐1). The GFP (or...