Appropriate responses of organisms to heat stress are essential for their survival. In eukaryotes, adaptation to high temperatures is mediated by heat shock transcription factors (HSFs). HSFs regulate the expression of heat shock proteins, which function as molecular chaperones assisting in protein folding and stability. In many model organisms a great deal is known about the products of hsf ge...

Introduction: UltraCarbonaceous Antarctic Micrometeorites (UCAMM) are a new type of fluffy, fragile particles, exceptionally rich in carbon. The samples were collected at Dome C near CONCORDIA station, in central Antarctica [1]. These particles are dominated by a very large amount of carbonaceous material, with concentrations up to ~ 50 wt%, even larger than that of anhydrous IDPs [2]. They are...

Alarm-calling behaviour is common in many species that suffer from predation. While kin selection or reciprocal altruism are typically invoked to explain such behaviours, several authors have conjectured that some alarm calls may instead be costly signals sent by prey to inform approaching predators that they have been detected. We develop a general game-theoretical model, the watchful babbler ...

Received Nov 21, 2017 Revised Jan 29, 2018 Accepted Feb 17, 2018 The route of self-governing ground vehicles through general conditions has gotten generous research consideration. Be that as it may, the writing contains not very many correlations of the course ideal models for AGVs, particularly for calculations utilising range discoverers. The fluffy behavioural approach and vector field histo...

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