Pati K., A. Das Munshi and T. Kanti Behera (2015): Inheritance of gynoecism in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) using genotype gbs-1 as gynoecious parentGenetika, Vol 47, No. 1, 349-356. The inheritance pattern of gynoecious sex expression in cucumber was studied by utilizing a gynoecious line (GBS-1) and two monoecious lines (Pusa Uday and Punjab Naveen). Crosses were made between gynoecious line...

The chitin-synthesis inhibitor lufenuron was administered to Drosophila melanogaster by incorporation of the LC50 (12 ppm) into the larval rearing medium to reveal its effects on the induction of sex-linked recessive lethals (SLRL), asynapsis in polytene chromosomes, and chromosomal aberrations in mitotic cells. The results show that lufenuron increases the frequency of SLRL, as evaluated by th...

Let G be a graph. We say that is perfectly divisible if for each induced subgraph H of G, V(H) can partitioned into A and B such H[A] perfect ω(H[B])<ω(H). use Pt Ct to denote path cycle on t vertices, respectively. For two disjoint graphs F1 F2, we F1∪F2 the graph with vertex set V(F1)∪V(F2) edge E(F1)∪E(F2), F1+F2 E(F1)∪E(F2)∪{xy|x∈V(F1) y∈V(F2)}. In this paper, prove (i) (P5,C5,K2,3)-free ar...

Isoprostanes are prostaglandin-like compounds that are produced by free radical mediated peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids. There is a direct evidence showing that F2-isoprostanes can be utilized as a marker of lipid peroxidation due to the mechanism of their formation (nonenzymatic oxidation of arachidonic acid), chemical stability, sensitive and non-invasive methods of their estimat...

We describe the recent progress in our cesium atomic fountains at National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ). We have developed three atomic fountains: NMIJ-F1, NMIJ-F2, and a truncated atomic beam fountain. NMIJ-F1 has been the primary frequency standard with uncertainty of 4×10 -15 since 2004. Especially in the last 4 years, we have reported the data to Bureau International des Poids et Mes...

Linear feedback shift registers (LFSR’s) are fundamental primitives in the theory and practice of pseudorandom number generation and coding theory (see, e.g., [1], [2], [3], [4], [6], [7], and references therein). Figure 1 describes a typical LFSR over the two-element field F2 = {0, 1}, where each step consists of adding some of the state bits (we follow the convention that the elements of F2 a...

The variation from spontaneous mutations for 6-week body weight in the mouse was estimated by selection from a cross of two inbred sublines, C57BL/6 and C57BL/10, separated about 50 years previously from the same inbred line. Selection was practised high and low for 12 generations from the F2, followed by one generation of relaxation. The lines diverged by approximately 1.7 g or 0.7 sd. The add...

BACKGROUND There is a high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in women of reproductive age. METHODS This work studied the first two generations of offspring (F1 and F2) of Swiss mice from mothers fed one of two diets: SC (standard chow) or VitD- (vitamin D-deficient). Functional and developmental kidney measurements were taken. RESULTS The first two generations of the VitD- group had hig...

Studies have linked sex-biased neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and schizophrenia, with fetal antecedents such as prenatal stress. Further, these outcomes can persist into subsequent generations, raising the possibility that aspects of heritability in these diseases involve epigenetic mechanisms. Utilizing a mouse model in which we previously identified a period in early gestation...

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, C20:5, omega-3) is the most abundant polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) in fish oil. Recent studies suggest that the beneficial effects of fish oil are due, in part, to the generation of various free radical-generated non-enzymatic bioactive oxidation products from omega-3 PUFAs, although the specific molecular species responsible for these effects have not been ident...