Zn0.9Co0.1O ceramic pigments were synthesized using simple high energy milling method. Zinc and cobalt oxides were used as starting materials. Products were investigated using simultaneous thermal analysis and fourier transformation infrared. Pigments were characterized using X-ray diffraction, diffuse reflectance and Scanning Electron Microscopy. The results showed the effect of calcination te...

The dark synthesis of biliproteins in the blue-green alga Tolypothrix tenuis is controlled by brief light treatments. Green light potentiates synthesis of phycoerythrin and red light potentiates synthesis of phycocyanin. Red reverses the effect of green and vice versa. Action spectra for the red and green effects were obtained for the wavelength region 320 nanometers to 710 nanometers, at 10-na...

PURPOSE The gene for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, a neurodegenerative disorder, is closely linked to the red/green color pigment genes on the distal X-chromosome Xq28 and one kindred is known to have a genetic change affecting both loci. The purpose of this article is to perform a systematic assessment of the frequency of this situation in many affected kindreds. METHODS Recombinant DNA pro...

The eyespot of the biflagellate unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a complex organelle that facilitates directional responses of the cell to environmental light stimuli. The eyespot, which assembles de novo after every cell division and is associated with the daughter four-membered (D4) microtubule rootlet, comprises an elliptical patch of rhodopsin photoreceptors on the plasma...

In 1930 Amako reported that as cultures of Serratia marcescens grew old their color changed from red to dark violet. He postulated that the change was associated with the pathway of pigment formation in the microorganism. Weiss (1949) observed a similar color change. Colonies growing on agar were orange-red in color at the end of 24 to 48 hr, but as they grew older the color changed to red-purp...

An analysis of key genes and enzymes of the betacyanin biosynthetic pathway in Amaranthus hypochondriacus (Ah) was performed. Complete cDNA sequence of Ah genes coding for cyclo-DOPA 5-O glucosyltransferase (AhcDOPA5-GT), two 4, 5-DOPA-extradiol-dioxygenase isoforms (AhDODA-1 and AhDODA-2, respectively), and a betanidin 5-O-glucosyltransferase (AhB5-GT), plus the partial sequence of an ortholog...

It is sometimes helpful to investigate the etiology of lesions of the visual path centripetally, starting at the periphery. This ap­ proach enabled Carr and Ripps to show that Oguchi's disease cannot be due to a failure in visual pigment kinetics, and Carr and as­ sociateshave similarly established that le­ sions causing congenital nyctalopia are situ­ ated on the central side of the receptor o...

This work deals with the composition of the blue and green pigments used in the wooden sarcophagus studied by Abdelaal et al. and published in 2014 in this journal. From the published data, a degradation of the originally used Egyptian blue pigment is proposed. The presence of chlorine in the pigment deduced from SEM-EDS analyses and the greenish hue observed point to the formation of a certain...

Red-green color vision is based on middle-wavelength- and long-wavelength-sensitive visual pigments encoded by an array of genes on the X chromosome. The numbers and ratios of genes in this cluster were reexamined in men with normal color vision by means of newly refined methods. These methods revealed that many men had more pigment genes on the X chromosome than had previously been suggested a...

The cover scales on the wing of the Emerald-patched Cattleheart butterfly, Parides sesostris, contain gyroid-type biological photonic crystals that brightly reflect green light. A pigment, which absorbs maximally at approximately 395 nm, is immersed predominantly throughout the elaborate upper lamina. This pigment acts as a long-pass filter shaping the reflectance spectrum of the underlying pho...