Communication between flowering plants and their pollinators involves innate, learned and deceptive sensory signals. Nocturnal, hawkmoth-pollinated flowers are among the most reflective and strongly scented known, suggesting the potential for multimodal sensory communication with pollinators. We measured the relative importance of these overstated signals, both alone and in combination, to nect...

Pedigree reconstruction using molecular markers enables efficient management of inbreeding in open-pollinated breeding strategies, replacing expensive and time-consuming controlled pollination. This is particularly useful in preferentially outcrossed, insect pollinated Eucalypts known to suffer considerable inbreeding depression from related matings. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marke...

Branching morphogenesis of the metanephric kidney is critically dependent on the delicate orchestration of diverse cellular processes including proliferation, apoptosis, migration, and differentiation. Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a potent lipid mediator influencing many of these cellular events. We report increased expression and activity of both sphingosine kinases and S1P phosphatases du...

Branching morphogenesis of the metanephric kidney is critically dependent on the delicate orchestration of diverse cellular processes including proliferation, apoptosis, migration, and differentiation. Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a potent lipid mediator influencing many of these cellular events. We report increased expression and activity of both sphingosine kinases and S1P phosphatases du...

prosite database contains a set of entries corresponding to protein families, which are used to identify the family of a protein from its sequence. although patterns and profiles are developed to be very selective, each may have false positive or negative hits. considering false positives as items that reduce the selectiveness of a pattern, then, the more selective pattern we have, a more accur...