Oxidative stress induced by the free radicals has been gained a vital importance as it forms the root cause of about 200 human diseases [1]. Free radicals are highly reactive molecules with unpaired electrons and are produced during various cellular processes [2]. They represent an essential part of metabolism and aerobic life. Many of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen spe...

Female farming systems draws attention to women’s (re)productive roles in agriculture, with particular attention to questions of power, equity, and empowerment. Female farming systems as an organizing concept highlights what was a surprisingly neglected field of study until the 1970s and provides insights into the gendered nature of agriculture. In the past and the present the term “farmer” pre...

Desiccation tolerance of the moss Tortula ruralis is characterized by a desiccation-induced change in gene expression that becomes evident upon rehydration. As reported earlier, this change in gene expression is apparently brought about by a change in the control of translation and does not include a major shift in mRNA abundance. A full qualitative and quantitative analysis of the alteration i...

The daily activity cycles of marine predators may be dictated in large part by the timing of prey availability. For example, recent studies have observed diel periodicity in baleen whale vocalization rates that are thought to be governed by the diel vertical migration of their zooplanktonic prey. We addressed this hypothesis by studying associations between sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) voc...

Chesapeake Bay populations of the red-tide dinoflagellate Gymnodinium sanguineum were regularly infected by the parasitic dinoflagellate Amoebophrya ceratii during the summers of 1988-1991. Infections developed inside the nucleus of G. sanguineum and were always lethal to the host. Parasite generation time was ~ 40 h at 23° C, with the intracellular, trophont phase lasting 39.5 ± 0.3 h, and the...

This article explores and extends the field of historical rural sociology using the idea of respectability via a biographical study of 20 older adults from North Wales (UK) for whom the performance of respectability represented a form of social, symbolic or cultural capital. It entailed the active negotiation and management of barriers between differing constituencies of opinion, generations an...

Propagule soil-banks are important for colonization and for the maintenance of regional diversity among bryophytes of temperate regions, yet they have not previously been reported from hot desert ecosystems and little is known about the relationship between soil-bank diversity and elevation. I used emergence germination methods to explore patterns of species composition and richness in bryophyt...

s (Alphabetically by First Author) ............................................. 2-300 Author Index ..............................................................................................300-308 book of abstracts ASLO 2011 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2 (~) represents Tutorial presentations Aarbakke, O. N., University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, [email protected] Norrbin, F., Univers...