R eading the French version of Journey to the Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson (1996) during the course of my graduate studies, I remember being amazed by the description of circular mills formed by an isolated group of army ants. This phenomenon occurs when a group of foragers is separated from the main column of the raiding swarm by a perturbation of their pheromonal communication...

We proposed that inhibition of mitochondrial adenine nucleotide translocator (ANT) by long chain acyl-CoA (LCAC) underlies the mechanism associating obesity and type 2 diabetes. Here we test that after long-term exposure to a high-fat diet (HFD): (i) there is no adaptation of the mitochondrial compartment that would hinder such ANT inhibition, and (ii) ANT has significant control of the relevan...

T h e characterizat ion and evaluation o f ant igen-induced suppressor T (Ts) 1 cell networks have considerably evolved in the last several years (1-4). While there are now a variety o f ways to induce such Ts cells, one o f the most intriguing approaches has been to intravenously inject l igand-derivatized lymphocytes into naive recipients, and to later use these recipients as suppressor cell ...

optimization of reservoir parameters is an important issue in petroleum exploration and production. the ant colony optimization(aco) is a recent approach to solve discrete and continuous optimization problems. in this paper, the ant colony optimization is usedas an intelligent tool to estimate reservoir rock properties. the methodology is illustrated by using a case study on shear wave velocity...

The technique introduced b y J eme for enumerat ing ant ibody-forming cells in agar (1, 2) permi ts precise analysis of the cellular kinetics of the immune response to sheep erythrocytes . I n an earlier paper the kinetic events and the a l terat ions in nucleic acid metabol ism observed during the induction of tolerance to this ant igen with the immunosuppressive drug cyclophosphamide were ana...

During a recent investigation of ant-mimicking arthropods in Costa Rica, two new species salticid spiders were discovered. Here, I provide descriptions the species, Myrmapana costaricaensis sp. nov. and Corcovetella galianoae The former has forms; dark form resembles Neoponera ants, while light Pseudomyrmex ants. Camponotus

AINTEGUMENTA (ANT) is an important regulator of Arabidopsis flower development that has overlapping functions with the related AINTEGUMENTA-LIKE6 (AIL6) gene in floral organ initiation, identity specification, growth, and patterning. Two other AINTEGUMENTA-LIKE (AIL) genes, AIL5 and AIL7, are expressed in developing flowers in spatial domains that partly overlap with those of ANT. Here, it is s...