handling in order to minimize the risk of adults regurgitating. During this procedure no great signs of stress were apparent: none of the birds regurgitated. The attachment of the loggers on the adult penguin was carried out using adhesive Tesa® 4651 tape as described by Wilson et al. [...
For years, the geographic center of North America has been described as this stone and mortar obelisk inRugby, North Dakota, 60 kilometres south of Manitoba, Canada. I used to drive past the monument a couple times a year back in the days when I owned homes in Florida and Saskatchewan. H...
Using accelerometers and GPS loggers, features of the habitat and the way animals deal with variable conditions can be translated into energetic costs of movement, which, in turn, can be translated to energy landscapes.We investigated energy landscapes in Gentoo Penguins Pygoscelis papua from two ...
Interestingly, the RRM protein NonA, the Drosophila counterpart of p54nrb, forms a complex with other RNA-binding proteins in developmentally regulated 'puffs' on polytene chromo somes [7]. It will be of great interest to determine whether paraspeckles also target particular gene loci in ...
Although cholesterol is absorbed and synthesized in the body to supply cells, endogenous excess cholesterol is eliminated from the circulation via the gut, not only for balancing overall cholesterol abundance but also for physiological cholesterol turnover. TICE constitutes up to 70% of FNS excretion ...