The bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) system is widely used in isolation of large genomic fragments of interest. Construction of a routine BAC library requires several months for picking clones and arraying BACs into superpools in order to employ 4D-PCR to screen positive BACs, which might be time-consuming and laborious. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a cluster of genes invo...

1. The study investigated the effects of providing sight barriers in breeding pens on pheasant mortality, feather damage and behaviour. 2. Data were collected from 11 conventional pens (control) and 11 pens with additional sight barriers (barrier) over the course of a ten week breeding season. Each pen contained 8 males and 56 females at the beginning of the season. 3. There was a higher rate o...

This paper presents Pheasant, a framework for analyzing data collected during high energy physics experiments. Our approach features a visual query language especially adapted to the needs of the physicists analyzing the data. We also provide interfaces to the currently applied tools, so that users can still do the same work as before, but on a higher level of abstraction. This helps users to c...

Abstract Wildlife-vehicle collisions are a major cause of mortality in animal populations and can significant population-level effects. Urban areas typically associated with higher road densities unique wildlife communities comparison to rural areas, therefore have the potential be high numbers collisions, roadkill risk. Here, we use citizen science database species distribution models assess h...

rooster`s eye has been used a lot in shahnameh and other contexts. poets and authors, following their ancestors, have talked about it as a symbol of beautification, purity, and redness however rooster`s eye doesn’t have any of these features, nor are these features important enough to be noticed by poets. researchers have mentioned some opinions to match these features with rooster`s eye, and...

Reeves's Pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii) is a threatened pheasant species endemic to China. The habitat use of territorial male birds was surveyed by the help of live decoys in a core area of Dongzhai National Nature Reserve. The breeding habitat selection of this pheasant was examined at two scales (115 m and 250 m scale, i.e. 4.15 hm(2 ) and 19.63 hm(2 ), respectively), including the character...