We report here the complete chloroplast genome sequences of seven strains of the bloom-forming raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo These ~160-kb sequences contain 124 protein-, 6 rRNA-, and 34 tRNA-coding sequences. Notable sequence variations were observed among these seven sequenced and two previously characterized strains.

I investigated if primate species assemblages exhibit nestedness in Guyana. In a nested pattern, individual species have a strong tendency to be present in all assemblages of equal or greater size than the smallest one in which they occur. I conducted 1,725 km of surveys to determine primate species composition and distribution patterns at sixteen survey sites in Guyana. The resulting dataset s...

Edited and reviewed by: Samuel A. Cushman, United States Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, USA †Present address: Frédéric J. J. Chain, Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada; Philine G. D. Feulner, Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastan...

What is the DGVa? The Database of Genomic Variants archive [2] (DGVa) is a public catalogue of structural variation found in the genomes of individuals within a species. Why do we need the DGVa? In recent years there have been unprecedented advances in the technologies that characterise genomic variation, and it is well known that variation at the single nucleotide level is abundant across the ...

We give a relatively short and self contained proof of Ratner’s theorem in the special case of SL(2, R)-invariant measures.

Karamata's Tauberian theorem relates the asymptotics of a nondecreasing right-continuous function to that of its Laplace-Stieltjes transform, using regular variation. This paper establishes the analogous Tauberian theorem for matrix-valued functions. Some applications to time series analysis are indicated.

The present work reveals a problem formulation to minimize material consumption and improve efficiency of diagrids to resist equivalent wind loading. The integrated formulation includes not only sizing of structural members but also variation in geometry and topology of such a system. Particular encoding technique is offered to handle practical variation of diagrid modules. A variant of Pseudo-...