The Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera, is among the most promising species to unravel the suites of genes underling the density-dependent shift from shy and cryptic solitarious behaviour to the highly active and aggregating gregarious behaviour that is characteristic of locusts. This...
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae CHEF DNA Size Marker (Bio-Rad, UK), already restricted, and Salmonella ser. Braenderup H9812 chromosome, prepared according to the Standard Operating procedure for PusleNet PFGE for Salmonella [31] and restricted with 50 U XbaI restriction endonuclease (New England ...
Carnivores play an important part in maintaining ecosystem health by limiting the population sizes of their prey. However, their feeding habits can also place populations of threatened species at risk of extinction or decline. We examined the diet of Australia’s largest terrestrial carnivore, the di...
(2015) attributed differences in the foraging behaviour between flies of different sizes to the positive relationship between total eye area and body size, which allows for increased light capture and activity at lower light levels with increasing eye area [123]. The positive relationship between ...
Whole samples were passed through a combination of sieve sizes, portions weighed, mean seed size (width) calculated using proportions by weight and sieve mid-points, and standard deviation of seed size computed for the discrete distribution of each plot/sample. Protein analysis was undertaken on ...
The phantom was composed of materials designed to mimic soft tissue and had an overall diameter of 10 cm and incorporated line patterns of different sizes. The samples were exposed to X-rays under clinically relevant mean glandular doses (MGD) of 2, 4, and 8 mGy (the 8 mGy MGD was ...
Differences associated with age, cultural identity and professional experience were not assessed in the present study due to the unequal sample sizes in the dataset for these subgroups. For demographic context, however, the majority of respondents had between 0–5 years of incoming professional ...