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An annotated and illustrated identification guide to common mesophotic reef sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hexactinellida, and Homoscleromorpha) inhabiting Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary and vicinities [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Sponges are recognized as a diverse and abundant component of mesophotic and deep-sea ecosystems worldwide. In Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary region within the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, sponges thrive among diverse biological and ...
Maria Cristina Díaz +7 more
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Carboxyfluorescein Dye Uptake to Measure Connexin-mediated Hemichannel Activity in Cultured Cells
Bio-Protocol, 2021 Connexins are membrane bound proteins that facilitate direct and local paracrine mediated cell-to-cell communication through their ability to oligomerise into hexameric hemichannels.
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eLife, 2022 Early predator detection is a key component of the predator-prey arms race and has driven the evolution of multiple animal hearing systems. Katydids (Insecta) have sophisticated ears, each consisting of paired tympana on each foreleg that receive sound ...
Christian A Pulver +8 more
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Construction patterns of birds’ nests provide insight into nest-building behaviours [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Previous studies have suggested that birds and mammals select materials needed for nest building based on their thermal or structural properties, although the amounts or properties of the materials used have been recorded for only a very small number of ...
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Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 Overcoming the slow oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) kinetics at the cathode of the hydrogen fuel cells requires the use of electrocatalysts containing expensive and scare platinum to achieve reasonable performance, hampering widespread use of the ...
Daisy E. Gray +5 more
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Evidence for Root Kin Recognition in the Clonal Plant Species Glechoma hederacea
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Plant competition belowground is a crucial factor that determines plant fitness and shapes plant communities. It has been shown that roots possess the ability to recognize between self and non-self individuals and modify their growth patterns accordingly.
Ellen L. Goddard +4 more
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Parasitology, 2023 Host–parasite associations provide a benchmark for investigating evolutionary arms races and antagonistic coevolution. However, potential ecological mechanisms underlying such associations are difficult to unravel.
Charlie Woodrow +7 more
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Development of New Payment Systems in Russia Similar to a CLS Analogue [PDF]
Финансовый журнал, 2021 This paper examines the need to create new infrastructural payment and financial institutions in Russia to ensure greater independence of the Russian financial market from any external factors as well as the efficiency of the market for ruble conversion ...
Alexey V. Maslov
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Biosensors, 2021 Coumaphos is an organophosphorus compound used as insecticide and frequently used by beekeepers for the management of parasitic mites. The most important metabolite, chlorferron (CFN), has been identified in biological samples and foodstuff.
Bakhtiyar Qader +5 more
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String Dualities from Matrix Theory: A Summary [PDF]
, 1997 I review the appearance, within Matrix theory, of the $SL(5,Z)$ U-duality group of M-theory on $T^4$, and the duality between M-theory on K3 and the Heterotic string on $T^3$.
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