Studies on six species of the genera Paranthrene Hübner and Conopia Hübner from Japan (Lepidoptera, Aegeriidae)
A phylogenie consideration of Chrysomelinae based on immature stages of Japanese species (Coleoptera)
Birds, Biodiversity of
Published in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
The life of birds is based on flight, which has both constrained their diversification and opened ecological opportunities. It affects their size and their abundance. Their ecology is based on the exploitation of patchy and variable resources, migration being the most obvious manifestation of this. A few birds are flightless. The taxonomic diversit...
Scale, Concept and Effects of
Published in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
It is a familiar experience that taxonomic diversity increases as more area is examined, as more time is spent watching an area, as more organisms are collected, and as a wider range of body sizes are accumulated. These increases in diversity do not scale directly with area, time, collection size, or body size. More than 50 years ago, C. B. William...
Invertebrates, Terrestrial, Overview
Published in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
The terrestrial invertebrates contain the majority of the world's animal species, although marine environments harbor more phyla representing more widely separate animal groups. Only comparatively few of the phyla have managed to adapt to terrestrial conditions, that is drought, ultraviolet radiation, no support of water against gravity, as well as...
CancerLectinDB: a database of lectins relevant to cancer
Published in Glycoconjugate Journal
The role of lectins in mediating cancer metastasis, apoptosis as well as various other signaling events has been well established in the past few years. Data on various aspects of the role of lectins in cancer is being accumulated at a rapid pace. The data on lectins available in the literature is so diverse, that it becomes difficult and time-cons...
rbcL and matK Earn Two Thumbs Up as the Core DNA Barcode for Ferns
BackgroundDNA barcoding will revolutionize our understanding of fern ecology, most especially because the accurate identification of the independent but cryptic gametophyte phase of the fern's life history--an endeavor previously impossible--will finally be feasible. In this study, we assess the discriminatory power of the core plant DNA barcode (r...
Reptiles del departamento del Chocó, Colombia
By means of review of literature, copies of collection and undergrduate, we presents an annotated checklist of reptiles of the chocoana region (Chocó) with the aim of generating tools and a baseline of the knowledge of reptails for the region. At present, three orders, 27 families, 88 genera and 184 speices; among better studied localities in terms...
Multiplexed RNA structure characterization with selective 2′-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension sequencing ...
New regulatory roles continue to emerge for both natural and engineered noncoding RNAs, many of which have specific secondary and tertiary structures essential to their function. Thus there is a growing need to develop technologies that enable rapid characterization of structural features within complex RNA populations. We have developed a high-thr...
Evaluating the Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) as a Candidate Dinoflagellate Barcode Marker
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BackgroundDNA barcoding offers an efficient way to determine species identification and to measure biodiversity. For dinoflagellates, an ancient alveolate group of about 2000 described extant species, DNA barcoding studies have revealed large amounts of unrecognized species diversity, most of which is not represented in culture collections. To date...
