Burkholderia pseudomallei is a biothreat and the causative agent of melioidosis. There are at least seven known colony morphotypes of B. pseudomallei that appear to have different virulence properties in animal models. We report the genome sequence of B. pseudomallei strain NCTC 13392 and the genomic variations of its eight morphotype derivatives.

T. Borges Lessa*; B. Machado Bertassoli; S. Elisabete Alves de Lima Will; M. Pandolphi Brólio; D. Kelly de Abreu; R. Eli Grassi Rici; M. Angelica Miglino and Carlos E. Ambrósio School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science (FMVZ), Surgery Department. Graduate Program in Anatomy of Domestic and Wild Animals, University of Sao Paulo (USP). Av. Prof. Dr. Orlando Marques de Paiva, s/n, CEP 05508...

Small-animal imaging with magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) has become an important tool in biomedical research. When MRM is used to image perfusion-fixed and "stained" whole mouse specimens, cardiopulmonary morphology can be visualized, nondestructively, in exquisite detail in all three dimensions. This capability can be a valuable tool for morphologic phenotyping of different mouse strains ...

nervous functions and of the reduction of human performance to instincts, drives, reflexes or other part processes. Forced out of his work, while he waited in Amsterdam in 1934 for a visa for the United States, he took the opportunity-by his own account, five weeks that exhausted both his typist and himself-to clarify the theoretical basis of his medical work. This book is the result, the "clas...

The inulin-type fructans are non-digestible oligosaccharides that are fermented in the gastrointestinal tract of farm animals and pets. This review focuses on the various effects of inulin-type fructans in pigs, poultry, calves and companion animals. Effects of the inulin-type fructans on gut microflora, digestion and availability of nutrients, gut morphology, fermentation characteristics and a...

Contents 1. Introduction to the systematic zoology of the Metazoa (Animalia) 2. Animal phylogeny: data sources and interpretation 2.1 Morphology 2.2 Molecules 2.3 Fossils 3. Systematic zoology of the Metazoa 3. 3.12 Some extant " problematica " 4. Alternative hypotheses of metazoan relationships 4.1 Morphology 4.2 Molecules 5. Reconciliation and pathways to future progress Acknowledgments Gloss...

Cambrian Orsten-type fossils have yielded specimens with a uniquely detailed morphology from the early stages of animal evolution. A newly discovered crustacean larva illustrates how morphology and lifestyle over half a billion years ago closely resembled those of extant relatives.

CONTENTS Animal rearing and sample collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Measurements of larval morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Analyses of larval morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Estimates of additive genetic variances and covariances . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bayesian estimates of quantitative genetics parameters . . . . . . . . . . 6 Additive genetic varianc...