What Drives Caterpillar Guilds on a Tree: Enemy Pressure, Leaf or Tree Growth, Genetic Traits, or Phylogenetic Neighbourhood?

Communities of herbivorous insects on individual host trees may be driven by processes ranging from ongoing development ASSAULT GREEN APPLE via recent microevolution to ancient phylogeny, but the relative importance of these processes and whether they operate via trophic interactions or herbivore movement remains unknown.We determined the leaf phen

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The foundations of the Patagonian icefields

Abstract The two vast Patagonian icefields are a global hotspot for ice-loss.However, not much is known about the total ice volume they store - let alone its spatial distribution.One reason is that the abundant record of direct thickness measurements has never been systematically exploited.Here, this record is combined with remotely-sensed informat

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"Survey of Intestinal Parasitic Infection in Leukemic Children and Evaluation of their Serum Immunoglobulins"

Infection is one of the cardinal difficulties in the children with acute leukemia and is the leading cause of mortality among them.The prevalence of infection in these patients has several reasons including usage of cytotoxic agents, corticosteriods, broad consumption of antibiotics, duration of confinement in hospital, defective of cellular and hu

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Gene discovery and molecular marker development, based on high-throughput transcript sequencing of Paspalum dilatatum Poir.

BACKGROUND: Paspalum dilatatum Poir.(common name dallisgrass) is a native grass species of South America, with special relevance to dairy and red meat production.P.dilatatum exhibits higher forage quality than other C4 forage grasses and is tolerant to frost and water stress.This species is predominantly cultivated in an apomictic monoculture, with

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