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    Parental sex allocation and sex-specific survival drive offspring sex ratio bias in little owls

    Although biased offspring sex ratios are common in species with sexual size dimorphism, the proximate causes are often unresolved. This is because two general mechanisms operating in different ways and in vari...

    Matthias Tschumi, Jolanda Humbel, Joscha Erbes in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2019)

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    Engineering a thermostable Halothermothrix orenii β-glucosidase for improved galacto-oligosaccharide synthesis

    Lactose is produced in large amounts as a by-product from the dairy industry. This inexpensive disaccharide can be converted to more useful value-added products such as galacto-oligosaccharides (GOSs) by trans...

    Noor Hassan, Barbara Geiger, Rosaria Gandini in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (2016)