The olive is one of the most ancient cultivated fruit trees. Olive cultivation has a very long history which started from the Third Millennium BC (Loukas & Krimbas, 1983) in the Eastern region of the Mediterranean sea and spread later around the basin following land and maritime routes to Italy, Spain, North Africa and France. Nowadays there are about 805 million of olive trees, 98% of which ar...

This package vignette is designed as a hands-on tutorial for estimating temporal exponential random graph models (TERGMs) (Desmarais and Cranmer 2010, 2012b; Hanneke et al. 2010) and assessing goodness of fit and predictive performance (Cranmer and Desmarais 2011; Leifeld and Cranmer 2014) using the xergm package (Leifeld et al. 2014) for the statistical computing environment R (R Core Team 201...

Habitual consumption of a high glycemic index (GI) food causes postprandial increases in the blood glucose level, resulting in high insulin demand (Jenkins et al., 2002). The GI and GL, which considers both the quantity and quality of carbohydrate intake, have been shown to be related to chronic disease and increased risk of cancer (Patel et al., 2007; Jiao et al., 2009; Bao et al., 2010), incl...

Breast cancer is the leading cancer among women world-wide (International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2008). BC incidence has been increasing in both developed and developing countries (Bray et al., 2004) but over the past decade incidence has stabilised or decreased in many developed countries (Canfell et al., 2008; De Prithwish et al., 2010; Krieger et al., 2010; Daubisse-Marliac et al., 2...

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INTRODUCTION A series of clinical studies has provided direct evidence of a role for T-box genes in heart development and human disease, as mutations in at least three T-box genes, TBX1, TBX5 and TBX20, have been linked to human congenital heart disease (CHD) (Papaioannou and Silver, 1998; Papaioannou, 2001; Prall et al., 2002; Packham and Brook, 2003; Ryan and Chin, 2003; Baldini, 2004; Showel...

The potential for size-selective fishing to cause contemporary evolutionary changes in adaptive traits has attracted considerable interest in recent years (Jørgensen et al. 2007; Kuparinen and Merilä 2007). Fishing-induced selection has been identified as having the capacity to change various life-history traits as well as morphological, behavioral, and physiological traits (reviewed by Polican...

Many animals, especially arthropods, use substrateborne vibration signals in communication (Hill 2008, 2009). Substrate-borne vibrations have been demonstrated as an important mode of communication in bugs (Virant-Doberlet & Cokl 2004; Cocroft & Rodriguez 2005; Rodriguez et al. 2008), lacewings (Henry 1994; Henry et al. 2002), wolf spiders (Uetz & Roberts 2002; Hebets & Papaj 2005; Gibson & Uet...