The new tenth edition of Life maintains the balanced experimental coverage of previous editions and has been updated with the latest scientific research, a new contemporary design and cutting-edge teaching and learning support including images, videos, and animations that engage, encourage and support ...
Research Spotlight: Birth of a Discipline Rob Peters and Thomas E. Lovejoy founded climate change biology when both were with the World Wildlife Fund in the late 1980s. Lovejoy famously met with Steve Schneider (then director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research) and said, “I want...
Submit your articleGuide for authorsSpecial issue Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations in a Changing World Last update 22 February 2024 In the context of ongoing and ever-increasing global change, it is of high importance to better understand the adaptive and non-adaptive adjustments of animals ...
The Monod–Wyman–Changeux (MWC) model for allosteric proteins, an elegant and powerful theoretical concept, proved to be a succesful evolution in the field of biological regulation based on a cooperative selective mechanism to allow proteins to cope with the ever-changing physiological demands of ...
E. Homeostasis: the underappreciated and far too often ignored central organizing principle of physiology. Front. Physiol. 11, 200 (2020). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Lloyd, D., Aon, M. A. & Cortassa, S. Why homeodynamics, not homeostasis? Scientific World J. 1, 133...
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students would also know from their own family environment. For example, they need to choose the appropriate insulin for the grandmother, as she is diabetic; grandpa goes to the family doctor with a kidney complaint and orders various tests; and finally, grandpa is diagnosed with kidney stones....
One of the most important cash crops worldwide is rice (Oryza sativa L.). Under varying climatic conditions, however, its yield is negatively affected. In order to create rice varieties that are resilient to abiotic stress, it is essential to explore the
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