We evaluated the hypothesis that listeners can generate expectations about upcoming input using anticipatory deaccenting, in which the absence of a nuclear pitch accent on an utterance-new noun is licensed by the subsequent repetition of that noun (e.g. Drag the SQUARE with the house to the TRIangle with the house). The phonemic restoration paradigm was modified to obscure word-initial segmenta...

Information concerning vertebrate pests of beekeeping was gathered from state and provincial apiary inspectors through a questionnaire. Forty-eight states and 9 provinces responded. Additional pest information has been assembled from published articles. Bears represent the major vertebrate pest based on severity of damage to colonies. Total estimated losses reported amounted to $623,000 annuall...

Wild-type house mice were used to test the effect of intrauterine position on anogenital distance (AGD) and to verify whether crowding stress would masculinize female pups, developing at all intrauterine positions, as has been demonstrated in CF-1 mice stressed by restraint, heat, and light. Stress of crowding was documented by comparing aggressive behavior, litter birth weights, and plasma cor...

A Half-Century of Studies on a Chromosomal Hybrid Zone of the House Mouse Mabel D. Giménez, Daniel W. Förster, Eleanor P. Jones, Fríða Jóhannesdóttir, Sofia I. Gabriel, Thadsin Panithanarak, Moira Scascitelli, Valeria Merico, Silvia Garagna, Jeremy B. Searle, and Heidi C. Hauffe 25 Horizontal Transfer Can Drive a Greater Transposable Element Load in Large Populations Sam B. Groth and Justin P. ...

In contrast to the disease in humans, hereditary spherocytosis in the common house mouse produces an extreme spherocytosis. The cells show a broad distribution in size ranging from microcytic to macrocytic. Of particular interest is the finding of a substantial reduction in the major membrane polypeptide called spectrin, supporting a critical role for this protein in the control of erythrocyte ...

Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) was isolated from 14 out of 35 wild house mouse samples captured on two piers of Osaka port in Japan. Four of them were isolated from were isolated from 18 antibody positive mice while 10 were from 17 antibody negative mice. This is the first report of the isolation of LCMV from wild mice in Japan.

The deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, exhibits altitude-associated variation in hemoglobin oxygen affinity. To examine the structural basis of this functional variation, the structure of the hemoglobin was solved. Recombinant hemoglobin was expressed in Escherichia coli and was purified by ion-exchange chromatography. Recombinant hemoglobin was crystallized by the hanging-drop vapor-diffusion...

These studies were carried out during two successive years (2017-2019) at Sohag Governorate (Gazert Shandweel Village Located 15 km North of District). In this study, wire-box and glue traps used to control rodents attacking Sugar cane plants. The results showed that the number caught 2017-2018 season was 45 individuals using 73 by traps, in second year 2018-2019 show 65 78 with traps. Both dat...