Rugose spiraling whitefly (RSW) is one of the major pests which affects coconut trees. It feeds on tree by sucking up water content as well essential nutrients from leaves. also forms sooty mold in leaves due to process photosynthesis inhibited. Biocontrol pest harmless for trees and crops. The experimental results literature reveal that Pseudomallada astur a potential predator this pest. We in...

The horned dinosaur Pachyhinosaurus possesses rugose bony bosses across the skull roof in lieu of the projecting bony horn cores seen in most ceratopsians. This elaboration of typical ceratopsian ornaments provides an opportunity to test hypotheses of ceratopsian facial skin morphology and function. We analyze bone morphology and histology associated with several classes of skin features in ext...

Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the disease cholera, can generate rugose variants that have an increased capacity to form biofilms. Rugosity and biofilm formation are critical for the environmental survival and transmission of the pathogen, and these processes are controlled by cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) signaling systems. c-di-GMP is produced by diguanylate cyclases (DGCs) and degra...

Previous studies of spatial patterns among fossil assemblages have demonstrated the utility of gradient analysis as a n investigative tool inpaleobiology. However, because lateral samples in these studies have routinely been widely spaced (commonly tens of kilometers apart), there is little sense of the degree to which faunas vary locally, relative to variation observed a t larger scales along ...

A transcriptome analysis identified Vibrio vulnificus cabABC genes which were preferentially expressed in biofilms. The cabABC genes were transcribed as a single operon. The cabA gene was induced by elevated 3',5'-cyclic diguanylic acid (c-di-GMP) and encoded a calcium-binding protein CabA. Comparison of the biofilms produced by the cabA mutant and its parent strain JN111 in microtiter plates u...