Gomez-Lopez-Hernandez syndrome (GLHS) is a rare syndrome comprising the triad rhombencephalosynapsis (RS), parietal alopecia, and trigeminal anesthesia. Other typical findings are skull abnormalities, craniofacial dysmorphic signs, and short stature. Intellectual impairment is typical but cases with normal cognitive functions have also been reported. Only 15 cases of GLHS have been described so...

© 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 1 Stress inhibition of melatonin synthesis in the pineal 1 organ of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is 2 mediated by cortisol. 3 4 5 Marcos A. López-Patiño*, Manuel Gesto, Marta Conde-Sieira, José L. 6 Soengas, and Jesús M. Míguez. 7 8 Laboratorio de Fisioloxía Animal. Departamento de Bioloxía Funcional e Ciencias da 9 Saúde, Facultade de B...

Pruning is widely used in horticulture to control tree shape and balance between vegetative and reproductive growth. Several pruning models have been developed. They are based upon competition mechanisms and transport network to distribute resources to different sinks using either a source-sink allocation function (Borchert and Honda, 1984; de Reffye et al., 1999; Balandier et al., 2000) or an ...

Translocation of mtDNA into the nuclear genome, also referred to as numt, was first reported in the domestic cat (Felis catus) by Lopez et al. (1994). The Lopez-numt consisted of a translocation of 7.9 kbp of mtDNA that inserted into the domestic cat chromosome D2 around 1.8 million years ago. More than a decade later, the release of the domestic cat whole-genome shotgun sequences (1.9x coverag...

The Supreme Court's recent decisions in United States v. Lopez and United States v. Morrison articulate a vision of federalism under which Congress's regulatory authority under the Commerce Clause is severely limited in favor of returning traditional areas of state concern, particularly criminal law enforcement, to local or state control. The Court's decisions in these cases coincide with ball...