Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) populations for recurrent selection often are intercrossed after each cycle using bees (Apis mellifera) in isolation blocks to save the expense of hand labor. This experiment was conducted to determine whether the rate of natural outcrossing could be increased using growth regulators, plot size management, and node of fruit position for seed harvest. The experiment...

In most Japanese populations of dojo loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus), gonochoristic diploids genetically diversified groups (A and B, further subdivided into B1 B2) are present, whereas unisexual clonal lineages inhabit certain localities in the Hokkaido Ishikawa Prefectures Japan. Through a series genetic studies including DNA markers, loaches were deemed to originate from hybridization eve...

Tooth microwear feature densities were significantly increased in a population of laboratory-reared three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus in four days, after they were transferred from a limnetic feeding regime to a benthic feeding regime. These results show that even in aquatic vertebrates with non-occluding teeth, changes in feeding can cause changes in tooth microwear in just a few...

The influence of relatedness on male-male aggression was tested in three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus. The intensity of aggression against brothers and non-kin males did not differ significantly, indicating that kin recognition plays at most a minor role in aggressive interactions between male G. aculeatus.

The complete mitochondrial genome of the stone loach Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus, 1758) (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae) has been sequenced using a genome-skimming approach on an Illumina Hiseq 2500 platform. The mitochondrial genome of B. barbatula was determined to be 16,630 bp long and presents an organization typical of vertebrate mitogenomes. The mean coverage was 82× with ...

A new species of nemacheilid loach, Triplophysa longliensis, is described from Yudonghe River, a small tributary of Pearl River in Guizhou Province, China. It can be distinguished from other valid Triplophysa loaches by the following combination of characters: body smooth and scaleless; head tapering; lips thin and smooth; posterior chamber of gas bladder highly developed, long, bag-shaped, tip...