it tells new stories and revises received ideas. An international team of scholars asks how modern 'reproduction' - an abstract process of perpetuating living organisms - replaced the old 'generation' - the active making of humans and beasts, plants and even minerals. Striking illustrations invite...
Sexual reproduction One of the characteristics of all living organisms is their ability to reproduce according to genetic instructions within the organisms themselves. In chapter 10, we explored the world of asexual reproduction, as seen in prokaryotes and in some eukaryotes. Now, let us explore ...
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There are many cryptic or pseudo-cryptic species in plants and animals as well as micro-organisms including phytoplankton s pecies7–11. Among many species concepts, an application of the biological species concept can be used to clarify species delineation in heterothallic species, as mating ...
In deep-water ecosystems, octocorals are important structure-form- ing organisms that colonize substrata in dense aggre- gations and create critical habitat for associated fauna (Lumsden et al. 2007, Messing et al. 2008). Like many species of Anthozoa, octocorals are almost exclusively modular ...
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These help us to estimate how key parameters vary between different groups of organisms and whether, or to what degree, gen- eralizations are possible. The joint ef- forts of researchers with different specializations should directly integrate mathematical modeling with empirical case studies of ...
Hence the process of reproduction is likely to bear the stamp of natural selection in a more obvious way than any other aspect of the functional biology of organisms.doi:10.1002/9781118785706.ch17Murray E. FowlerP. Walter BravoJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd...
However, organisms have a limited amount of resources available and face the dilemma of partitioning resources between immunity and other life-history traits. Since males and females differ in their life histories, sex-specific resource investment strategies to achieve an optimal i...
This variable repertoire of cell wall proteins is likely to be of profound importance to the niche adaptations and relative viru- lence of these organisms. Als17 and Hyr/Iff genes frequently contain intragenic tandem repeats, which modulate adhesion and biofilm formation in S. cerevisiae21 (Fig. ...