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Mesopelagic Fish Larvae Species in the Strait of Sicily and their Relationships to Main Oceanographic Events 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
A. Cuttitta A. Arigo G. Basilone A. Bonanno G. Buscaino L. Rollandi J. Garcia Lafuente A. Garcia S. Mazzola B. Patti 《Hydrobiologia》2004,527(1):177-182
This work investigates the spatial distribution and species composition of mesopelagic fish larvae and their relationship with the main oceanographic events in the area studied. Samples were collected during a hydrographic and ichthyoplanktonic survey carried out in the Strait of Sicily in July 2000. Sorting revealed that 1258 out of the 4098 fish larvae identified belonged to mesopelagic species; Cyclothone braueri(67.6% of the total), Electrona Risso(7.8%) and Myctophum punctatum(7.7%) were the most prevalent species, with 850, 97, and 98 individuals, respectively. The surface density patterns of mesopelagic fish larvae appear to be related to the hydrographic characteristics and structures determined by the surface circulation path. 相似文献
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Steven M. Platek Danielle M. Raines Gordon G. Gallup Jr. Feroze B. Mohamed Jaime W. Thomson Thomas E. Myers Ivan S. Panyavin Sarah L. Levin Jennifer A. Davis Ludivine C.M. Fonteyn Danielle R. Arigo 《Evolution and human behavior》2004,25(6):394-405
The detection of genetic relatedness (i.e., kinship) affects the social, parental, and sexual behavior of many species. In humans, self-referent phenotype matching based on facial resemblance may indicate kinship, and it has been demonstrated that facial resemblance increases perceptions of trustworthiness and attractiveness [Proc. R. Soc. Lond., B Biol. Sci. 269 (2002) 1307–1312; Proc. R. Soc. Lond., B Biol. Sci. (in press)]. However, investigations of sex differences in reaction to facial resemblance have produced mixed results [Evol. Hum. Behav. 25 (2004) 142–154; Evol. Hum. Behav. 23 (2002) 159–166; Evol. Hum. Behav. 24 (2003) 81–87]. Here, we replicate the effects of Platek et al. [Evol. Hum. Behav. 23 (2002) 159–166] using high-resolution color morphing. We also extend these findings using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate a possible neural mechanism that may account for the observed sex difference. These data support the hypothesis that human males may use and favor facial resemblance as a paternity cue. 相似文献
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Andrew Yates Cliburn Chan Jessica Strid Simon Moon Robin Callard Andrew JT George Jaroslav Stark 《BMC bioinformatics》2007,8(1):196
Background
Quantifying cell division and death is central to many studies in the biological sciences. The fluorescent dye CFSE allows the tracking of cell division in vitro and in vivo and provides a rich source of information with which to test models of cell kinetics. Cell division and death have a stochastic component at the single-cell level, and the probabilities of these occurring in any given time interval may also undergo systematic variation at a population level. This gives rise to heterogeneity in proliferating cell populations. Branching processes provide a natural means of describing this behaviour. 相似文献24.
Jennifer E Totonchy Lisa Clepper Kevin G Phillips Owen JT McCarty Ashlee V Moses 《Cell Adhesion & Migration》2014,8(2):165-176
The homeostatic function of endothelial cells (EC) is critical for a number of physiological processes including vascular integrity, immunity, and wound healing. Indeed, vascular abnormalities resulting from EC dysfunction contribute to the development and spread of malignancies. The alternative SDF-1/CXCL12 receptor CXCR7 is frequently and specifically highly expressed in tumor-associated vessels. In this study, we investigate whether CXCR7 contributes to vascular dysfunction by specifically examining the effect of CXCR7 expression on EC barrier function and motility. We demonstrate that CXCR7 expression in EC results in redistribution of CD31/PECAM-1 and loss of contact inhibition. Moreover, CXCR7+ EC are deficient in barrier formation. We show that CXCR7-mediated motility has no influence on angiogenesis but contributes to another motile process, the invasion of CXCR7+ EC into ligand-rich niches. These results identify CXCR7 as a novel manipulator of EC barrier function via alteration of PECAM-1 homophilic junctions. As such, aberrant expression of CXCR7 in the vasculature has the potential to disrupt vascular homeostasis and could contribute to vascular dysfunction in cancer systems. 相似文献
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Roel GW Verhaak Frank JT Staal Peter JM Valk Bob Lowenberg Marcel JT Reinders Dick de Ridder 《BMC bioinformatics》2006,7(1):105-15
Background
Intensity values measured by Affymetrix microarrays have to be both normalized, to be able to compare different microarrays by removing non-biological variation, and summarized, generating the final probe set expression values. Various pre-processing techniques, such as dChip, GCRMA, RMA and MAS have been developed for this purpose. This study assesses the effect of applying different pre-processing methods on the results of analyses of large Affymetrix datasets. By focusing on practical applications of microarray-based research, this study provides insight into the relevance of pre-processing procedures to biology-oriented researchers. 相似文献26.
DNA-protein cross-links are generated by both endogenous and exogenous DNA damaging agents, as intermediates during normal DNA metabolism, and during abortive base excision repair. Cross-links are relatively common lesions that are lethal when they block progression of DNA polymerases. DNA-protein cross-links may be broadly categorized into four groups by the DNA and protein chemistries near the cross-link and by the source of the cross-link: DNA-protein cross-links may be found (1) in nicked DNA at the 3' end of one strand (topo I), (2) in nicked DNA at the 5' end of one strand (pol beta), (3) at the 5' ends of both strands adjacent to nicks in close proximity (topo II; Spo 11), and (4) in one strand of duplex DNA (UV irradiation; bifunctional carcinogens and chemotherapeutic agents). Repair mechanisms are reasonably well-defined for groups 1 and 3, and suggested for groups 2 and 4. Our work is focused on the recognition and removal of DNA-protein cross-links in duplex DNA (group 4). 相似文献
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Effects of nucleotide sequence alignment on phylogeny estimation: a case study of 18S rDNAs of apicomplexa 总被引:13,自引:5,他引:8
The reconstruction of phylogenetic history is predicated on being able to
accurately establish hypotheses of character homology, which involves
sequence alignment for studies based on molecular sequence data. In an
empirical study investigating nucleotide sequence alignment, we inferred
phylogenetic trees for 43 species of the Apicomplexa and 3 of Dinozoa based
on complete small-subunit rDNA sequences, using six different
multiple-alignment procedures: manual alignment based on the secondary
structure of the 18S rRNA molecule, and automated similarity-based
alignment algorithms using the PileUp, ClustalW, TreeAlign, MALIGN, and SAM
computer programs. Trees were constructed using neighboring-joining,
weighted-parsimony, and maximum- likelihood methods. All of the multiple
sequence alignment procedures yielded the same basic structure for the
estimate of the phylogenetic relationship among the taxa, which presumably
represents the underlying phylogenetic signal. However, the placement of
many of the taxa was sensitive to the alignment procedure used; and the
different alignments produced trees that were on average more dissimilar
from each other than did the different tree-building methods used. The
multiple alignments from the different procedures varied greatly in length,
but aligned sequence length was not a good predictor of the similarity of
the resulting phylogenetic trees. We also systematically varied the gap
weights (the relative cost of inserting a new gap into a sequence or
extending an already-existing gap) for the ClustalW program, and this
produced alignments that were at least as different from each other as
those produced by the different alignment algorithms. Furthermore, there
was no combination of gap weights that produced the same tree as that from
the structure alignment, in spite of the fact that many of the alignments
were similar in length to the structure alignment. We also investigated the
phylogenetic information content of the helical and nonhelical regions of
the rDNA, and conclude that the helical regions are the most informative.
We therefore conclude that many of the literature disagreements concerning
the phylogeny of the Apicomplexa are probably based on differences in
sequence alignment strategies rather than differences in data or
tree-building methods.
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Cross-hybridizing snake satellite, Drosophila, and mouse DNA sequences may have arisen independently 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Previous reports have interpreted hybridization between snake satellite DNA
and DNA clones from a variety of distant taxonomic groups as evidence for
evolutionary conservation, which implies common ancestry (homology) and/or
convergence (analogy) to produce the cross- hybridizing sequences. We have
isolated 11 clones from a genomic library of Drosophila melanogaster, using
a cloned 2.5-kb snake satellite probe of known nucleotide sequence. We have
also analysed published sequence data from snakes, mice, and Drosophila.
These data show that (1) all of the cross-hybridization between the snake,
fly, and mouse clones can be accounted for by the presence of either of two
tandem repeats, [GATA]n and [GACA]n and (2) these tandem repeats are
organized differently among the different species. We find no evidence that
these sequences are homologous apart from the existence of the simple
repeat itself, although their divergence from a common ancestral sequence
cannot be ruled out. The sequences contain a variety of homogeneous
clusters of tandem repeats of CATA, GA, TA, and CA, as well as GATA and
GACA. We suggest that these motifs may have arisen by a self-accelerating
process involving slipped-strand mispairing of DNA. Homogeneity of the
clusters might simply be the result of a rate of accumulation of tandem
repeats that exceeds that of other mutations.
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Structural comparison of fibroblast growth factor-specific heparan sulfates derived from a growing or differentiating neuroepithelial cell line 总被引:3,自引:1,他引:2
Brickman YG; Nurcombe V; Ford MD; Gallagher JT; Bartlett PF; Turnbull JE 《Glycobiology》1998,8(5):463-471
Heparan sulfate (HS) glycosaminoglycans are essential modulators of
fibroblast growth factor (FGF) activity both in vivo and in vitro, and
appear to act by cross-linking particular forms of FGF to appropriate FGF
receptors. We have recently isolated and characterized two separate HS
pools derived from immortalized embryonic day 10 mouse neuroepithelial 2.3D
cells: one from cells in log growth phase, which greatly potentiates the
activity of FGF-2, and the other from cells undergoing contact-inhibition
and differentiation, which preferentially activates FGF-1. These two pools
of HS have very similar functional activities to those species isolated
from primary neuroepithelial cells at corresponding stages of active
proliferation or differentiation. We present here a structural comparison
between these cell line HS species to establish the nature of the changes
that occur in the biosynthesis of HS. A combination of chemical and
enzymatic cleavage, low pressure chromatography and strong anion-exchange
HPLC were used to generate full chain models of each species. Overall, the
HS pools synthesized in the dividing cell line pools possessed less complex
sulfation than those derived from more differentiated, growth arrested
cells.
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Mireille B Johnson Stephen L Clifford Benoît Goossens Silvester Nyakaana Bryan Curran Lee JT White E Jean Wickings Michael W Bruford 《BMC evolutionary biology》2007,7(1):1-14