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Parasites, pathogens, and invasions by plants and animals
integration of global economies (Cohen and Carlton 1998). Although the effects of some introductions are undetectable, certain species have dramatic ecological and economic impacts (Parker et al. 1999; Ruiz et al. 1999) (Figure 1). Preventing further introductions and mitigating the impacts of established introduced species are growing concerns among policy makers and environmental managers and...
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Contents 1. Introduction 2. Animal self-medication and ethnomedicine 3. The impact of parasites on the evolution of self-medicative behavior 4. Food as medicine in animals and humans 5. Use of plants as medicine by chimpanzees in the wild 5.1. Whole leaf swallowing and the physical expulsion of parasite 5.2. Vernonia amygdalina and bitter pith chewing behavior 5.3. The ethnomedicine and phytoch...
متن کاملThe CW domain, a structural module shared amongst vertebrates, vertebrate-infecting parasites and higher plants.
A previously undetected domain, named CW for its conserved cysteine and tryptophan residues, appears to be a four-cysteine zinc-finger motif found exclusively in vertebrates, vertebrate-infecting parasites and higher plants. Of the twelve distinct nuclear protein families that comprise the CW domain-containing superfamily, only the microrchida (MORC) family has begun to be characterized. Howeve...
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Despite their large size, protozoan parasites are particularly adept at avoiding the unwanted attention of their hosts. This remarkable ability highlights the need for equally clever strategies to prevent and treat infection. With parasitic diseases such asmalaria and sleeping sickness affecting manymillions in the developing world, recent research in genetics and cell biology provides us with ...
متن کاملFurther insights into the structure of the alternative oxidase: from plants to parasites.
The AOX (alternative oxidase) is a non-protonmotive ubiquinol-oxygen oxidoreductase that couples the oxidation of ubiquinol with the complete reduction of water. Although it has long been recognized that it is ubiquitous among the plant kingdom, it has only recently become apparent that it is also widely found in other organisms including some human parasites. In this paper, we review experimen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/231063b0