Effect of the cytoskeleton dynamic condition on the neuronal plasticity]

Infringement of the Lymnaea stagnalis cytoskeleton condition affected preservation and repeated development of plastic responses. Stabilising of the microtubules led to a dependence of the development and preservation dynamics of the plastic responses. Stabilising of the microfilaments transformed short-term plastic responses into long-term ones. The findings suggest a key role of reorganisation of the cytoskeleton in neuronal plasticity.     

Characterization of tetranucleotide microsatellite loci and development and validation of multiplex reactions for the study of right whale species (genus Eubalaena)

A North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) genomic library was developed and screened with a (GATA)₈ probe to identify tetranucleotide microsatellite loci. Sixteen characterized loci were polymorphic in North Atlantic and/or South Atlantic (Eubalaena australis) right whales, 12 being polymorphic in E. glacialis, and 15 in E. australis. Fourteen of these were combined with 21 other previously identified loci for a suite of 35 loci which can be used to increase resolution of genetic analyses of these species. Multiplex reactions were developed for genotyping samples at these loci, providing a method that is rapid, reliable and cost‐effective.     

Trout Salmo spp. complex in Serbia and adjacent regions of the western Balkans: reconstruction of evolutionary history from external morphology

The multivariate phenetic approach to the classification of Salmo spp. samples from Serbia and adjacent regions of western Balkans for 22 continuous external morphological characters suggests the occurrence of the following distinct stocks: West Danubian (Crno Osoje Stream and upper Zeta River) Salmo taleri , marble trout Salmo marmoratus (Trebuščica River), hatchery-reared Atlantic Salmo trutta , Mlava River drainage (Mlava and Krupaja rivers and Buk Stream) trout Salmo cf. trutta , Velika Morava River system (Godljevača, Bela and Resava rivers) trout S. cf. trutta , Ohrid Lake belvica Salmo ohridana and Aegean coastal drainage Salmo macedonicus (Božica River). In contrast to the phenetic similarity, the phylogenetic reconstruction places the Lake Ohrid belvica as part of an unresolved polytomy with other trout groups. Salmo cf. trutta in the Mlava River appears to form the basal group for the trout species in the region. The position of marble trout implies its independent and more recent origin from the West Danubian trout stock.     

Establishment and Characterization of Cell Lines from Homozygous Brachyury (T/T) Embryos of the Mouse

Lethal mutations in the T/t complex cause stage-specific morphologic abnormalities during early embryogenesis of mice. Although mutant embryos are lethal at the early stages of development, we have succeeded in establishing several cell lines from one of these mutants ( T/T ). Mutant-specific abnormality was not observed in gross morphology and growth patterns of cells. They, however, retained the characters of freshly dissociated embryonic cells to form smaller aggregates than the wild-type in rotation-mediated aggregation.
One of the T/T cell lines (T-1) formed tumors when injected into one-day-old syngeneic and allogeneic host, Expression of H-2 antigens was serologically studied with H-2 specificity 5 as a marker antigen. All lines except T-1 were shown to have this specificity.