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The Cycas genome and the early evolution of seed plants
Cycads represent one of the most ancient lineages of living seed plants. Identifying genomic features uniquely shared by cycads and other extant seed...
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Long-term effect of fertilization on stone pine growth and cone production
Key message Fertilization is a feasible management technique for
Pinus pinea L. crop**, with increased cone production up to 9 years after the...
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Diverse functions and pathogenetic role of Crumbs in retinopathy
The Crumbs protein (CRB) family plays a crucial role in maintaining the apical–basal polarity and integrity of embryonic epithelia. The family...
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Role of short-wave-sensitive 1 (sws1) in cone development and first feeding in larval zebrafish
Color vision is mediated by the expression of different major visual pigment proteins (opsins) on retinal photoreceptors. Vertebrates have four...
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Fluctuations in population size and migration of two species of crossbills in relation to seed crop size of spruce and pine: asymmetric importance of alternative food resources
Bird species depending on seeds from masting trees face large temporal and spatial variation in food availability and perform nomadic or irruptive...
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Assessing the Ability of Picea abies (L.) H. Karst. Plus Tree Clones From the Middle Taiga Subzone of Karelia to Somatic Embryogenesis
AbstractThe results of a study of somatic embryogenesis in Norway spruce ( Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.), growing in the middle taiga subzone in the...
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Serotonin functions as a bidirectional guidance molecule regulating growth cone motility
The neurotransmitter serotonin has been implicated in a range of complex neurological disorders linked to alterations of neuronal circuitry....
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Diagnosis and Morphometrics of Sugarcane Thrips, Fulmekiola serrata (Kobus, 1892) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
The oriental sugarcane thrips, Fulmekiola serrata (Kobus) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is a serious pest in sugarcane growing countries of South and...
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Ophthalmology of Cartilaginous Fish: Skates, Rays, and Sharks
The cartilaginous fish or Chondrichthyes are a large and successful group of aquatic organisms, comprising the Elasmobranchs, modern sharks, skates...
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Cupressus sempervirens L.Cupressus lusitanica Mill.Cupressaceae
Cupressus lusitanica Mill.: Cupressus benthamii var. lindleyi (Klotzsch ex Endl.) Mast.; Cupressus glauca var. tristis Endl.; Cupressus lusitanica...
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Functional traits differ across an invasive tree species’ native, introduced, and invasive populations
It is often speculated that non-native invasive species undergo rapid changes in their phenotypic properties (i.e., traits) that provide adaptive...
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Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval
BackgroundIn ecosystems where fire has been excluded, pyrosilviculture can restore some processes historically maintained by fire while mitigating...
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Radiation Doses of Pine Stands in the Belarusian Sector of the 30-Kilometer Zone around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at the Present Stage
AbstractThe results of assessing the dose of external and internal irradiation of the tree tier of pine stands growing on the northern trace of the...
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Ephedra alata Decne, Ephedra altissima Desf., Ephedra fragilis Desf., Ephedra major Host, Ephedra alata subsp. alenda (Stapf) Trab, Ephedra transitoria Riedl, Ephedra foliata Boiss. ex C.A.Mey., Ephedra foeminea Forssk., and Ephedra aphylla Forssk.: Ephedraceae
Ephedra alata Decne: Ephedra altissima Bové (WFO 2023a)
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Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) Manetti ex Carrière; Cedrus libani A. Rich.: Pinaceae
Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) G.Manetti ex Carrière: Abies atlantica Lindl. & Gord.; Cedrus africana Gord. ex Knight; Cedrus argentea hort. ex Carrière;...
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Uniform trichromacy in Alouatta caraya and Alouatta seniculus: behavioural and genetic colour vision evaluation
Primate colour vision depends on a matrix of photoreceptors, a neuronal post receptoral structure and a combination of genes that culminate in...
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Visual System of the Only Nocturnal Anthropoid, Aotus: The Owl Monkey
Diurnal haplorhines exhibit derived traits for high-acuity photopic vision, unique across mammals, and many other vertebrates. Yet, sometime in the...
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Growth cone repulsion to Netrin-1 depends on lipid raft microdomains enriched in UNC5 receptors
During brain development, Uncoordinated locomotion 5 (UNC5) receptors control axonal extension through their sensing of the guidance molecule...
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Unexpected discovery: an enclave of East-Siberian plants in Northern Europe
Small native populations of the Siberian dwarf pine Pinus pumila (Pall.) Regel and bristle-pointed iris Iris setosa Pall. ex Link were discovered...
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Light Input to the Mammalian Circadian Clock
Circadian rhythms are 24-h cycles in physiology and behavior that occur in virtually all organisms. These processes are not simply driven by changes...