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On Verdansky's biosphere [PDF]
Vladimir Ivanovitch Vernadsky was a Russian mineralogist and crystallographer by training (St. Petersburg Univ.). He was born in St. Petersburg, on the 12th of March 1863, and died on the 6th of January 1945, in Moscow.
J. P. Cancela da Fonseca
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Abstract The current challenge of defining growth forms in the non‐geniculate coralline red algae was addressed. Since the 19th century, those who have worked on this large and globally distributed group of algae have tried to summarize and systematically describe their growth forms. This effort resulted in a plethora of terms, which could sometimes be
Gavin W. Maneveldt +18 more
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The statue of Lamarck, located at the entrance to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, is a particularly interesting object for the historian of science. Inaugurated in 1909, it illustrates two important aspects of French transformism at the beginning of the
Laurent Loison
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Palaeobiology of Pliocene-Pleistocene shallow-water biocalcarenites (Northern Apennines, Italy) and their relationship with coeval sapropels [PDF]
© The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Cau, S., Roveri, M., & Taviani, M.
Cau, Simone +2 more
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Where do the names of clouds, which simple “modifications” (cirrus, cumulus, stratus) are so familiar to us, come from? An English chemist, Luke Howard, invented them at the beginning of the 19th Century in an essay, On the Modifications of Clouds.
Anouchka Vasak
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Cerambycid Host Plants in a Southwestern Michigan Woodland (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) [PDF]
Host plant associations are listed for 61 species of Cerambycidae based on a six-year study in an 80-ha woodland in southwestern ...
Gosling, D. C. L
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Determining the Environmental Drivers of Greenshell Mussel (Perna canaliculus) Spat Settlement
ABSTRACT Globally, mussel aquaculture production is often constrained by a limited supply of spat, the juvenile stage of mussels, used to initiate production. In some instances, the harvesting of wild spat on spat‐collection ropes has the potential to quickly solve this acute shortage. However, the settlement of mussel spat on collectors is known to be
Kayleb Himiona +2 more
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Se reporta por primera vez a Moringa oleifera Lamarck (Moringaceae), como planta hospedera de Glutophrissa drusilla (Cramer, 1777), donde se alimenta de los foliolos de las hojas.
F. Romero-Montesino, J. Clavijo-Albertos
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Protamine-like proteins have bactericidal activity. The first evidence in Mytilus galloprovincialis. [PDF]
The major acid-soluble protein components of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis sperm chromatin consist of the protamine-like proteins PL-II, PL-III and PL-IV, an intermediate group of sperm nuclear basic proteins between histones and protamines.
Aliberti, Francesco +13 more
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We report the first record of a non‐native hermatypic coral in Venezuela, exhibiting biological traits characteristic of invasive species. The coral is a member of the genus Acropora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae), native to the Indo‐Pacific. This non‐native petrous coral occurred in a reef of the Morrocoy National Park, in the southern Caribbean.
Estrella Y. Villamizar G. +9 more
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