Feral cats in northern california have enabled researchers to unlock the biological secret behind a rare, striped cheetah found only in subSaharan africa, according to researchers at the School of medicine, the national cancer institute and Hudsonalpha institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, alabama. the study is the first to identify a molecular basis of coat patterning in mammals. the scie...

13y C. Macnamaka. I.?Post-mortem examination of a nine months' foetus, stillborn, mother having had an attach of Asiatic cholera. Tjte following case is worth recording, an opportunity having been afforded of examining the condition of a nine months' foetus, the mother having immediately before giving birth to the child, suffered from a very severe attack of Asiatic cholera. Instances of this d...

Centella asiatica (L.) Urban contains two ursane-type triterpene saponins, asiaticoside and madecassoside, as major secondary metabolites. In order to select candidate genes encoding UDP-glucosyltransferases (UGTs) involved in asiaticoside biosynthesis, we performed transcriptomic analysis of leaves elicited by methyl jasmonate (MeJA). Among the unigenes, 120 isotigs and 13 singletons of unique...

Graph kernels provide an expressive approach to measuring the similarity of two graphs, and are key building blocks behind many real-world applications, such as bioinformatics, brain science and social networks . However, current methods for computing graph kernels assume the input graphs are static, which is often not the case in reality. It is highly desirable to track the graph kernels on dy...

Detonation waves in insensitive, TATB based explosives are believed to have multi-time scale regimes. The initial burn rate of such explosives has a sub-microsecond time scale. However, significant late-time slow release in energy is believed to occur due to diffusion limited growth of carbon. In the intermediate time scale concentrations of product species likely change from being in equilibri...

While the domestic cat has served as a mammalian model to study retinal circuitry from photoreceptors to ganglion cells, data on the visual capacities of large and endangered Felid species are sparse, We have gathered eyes from 7 felid species, cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), lion (Panthera leo), tiger (Panthera tigris), jaguar (Panthera onca), Siberian manul (Felis manul), Eurasian lynx (Felis lyn...

In different groups of mammals the role of social learning in ontogeny of foraging behaviour is variable. Normally developed foraging skills are necessary for the survival of orphaned cubs, released into the wild after rehabilitation. The development of foraging behaviour in Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) has been poorly studied, and the role of learning from the mother remains undefine...