MIR-237 IS LIKELY A DEVELOPMENTAL TIMING GENE THAT REGULATES THE L2-TO-L3 TRANSITION IN C. ELEGANS Xi Li, B.S. Marquette University, 2010 Development is regulated in both the spatial and temporal dimensions. The developmental timing pathway in C. elegans is the most extensively studied timing mechanism. Many components of the pathway are conserved across phyla. Postembryonic development of C. e...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 235 NUCLEOSOMES IN HIGHER PLANTS ........................................................ 237 Microscopic Investigations ...................................................................... 237 Biochemical nd Biophysical Investigations ................................................. 237 CHROMA...

One hundred female Markhoz goats (42±5 kg) were used to investigate the ‘male effect’ on estrous synchronization and reproductive characteristics of female goat during the breeding season. This was carried out in three separate experiments. In the first experiment, forty female goats were used in 4 groups with different distance from the male goats (i.e. source of pheromone secretion); A1 (1 me...

It is difficult to be taken seriously when writing in the academic press about ‘love’ in relation to academic work. In response to a chapter entitled Intellectual love and the link between teaching and research (Rowland 2005), a reviewer commented ‘Rowland... highlights the role of ‘intellectual love’ (I kid you not) as the motivator for academic inquiry’ (Tight 2006 italics added). Why might a...

The objective of this study was to evaluate genetic and phenotypic parameters for some reproductive traits of Black Bengal does. Genetic parameters were estimated by Residual Maximum Likelihood procedure, fitting an animal model ignoring maternal genetic or permanent environmental effects. The least-squares means of litter size at birth (LSB), litter size at weaning (LSW), litter weight at birt...

The amount of sialic acid on the surface of the neutrophil influences its ability to interact with other cells. Neutrophil activation with various stimuli mobilizes intracellular sialidase to the plasma membrane where it cleaves sialic acid from cell surfaces. Since enhanced neutrophil adherence, spreading, deformability and motility each are associated with surface desialylation and critical t...