Deep Learning-Based Morphological Classification of Endoplasmic Reticulum Under Stress
Endoplasmic reticulum stress (ER stress) is a condition that is defined by abnormal accumulation of unfolded proteins. It plays an important role in maintaining cellular protein, lipid, and ion homeostasis.
Yuanhao Guo +14 more
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Golden Spirals and Scalp Whorls: Nature's Own Design for Rapid Expansion. [PDF]
This paper documents what began as an exercise in curiosity-logarithmic spiral designs abound in nature-in galaxies, flowers, even pinecones, and on human scalps as whorls. Why are humans the only primates to have whorls on the scalp? Is the formation of
Sharad P Paul
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A bajocian (Middle jurassic) marine gastropod assemblage from the badamu formation, Central Iran [PDF]
Nine species of gastropods are reported from the Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) part of the Badamu Formation of Central Iran. This is the first report of a gastropod assemblage of this age from the shelves of the Kimmerian Continent.
Binazadeh, Tayyeb +2 more
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Glowing Seashells: Diversity of Fossilized Coloration Patterns on Coral Reef-Associated Cone Snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) Shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic [PDF]
The biology of modern Conidae (cone snails)—which includes the hyperdiverse genus Conus—has been intensively studied, but the fossil record of the clade remains poorly understood, particularly within an evolutionary framework.
Hendricks, Jonathan R
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Genomics of Flower Identity in Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.)
The identity of the four characteristic whorls of typical eudicots, namely, sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels, is specified by the overlapping action of homeotic genes, whose single and combined contributions have been described in detail in the so ...
Fabio Palumbo +4 more
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Correlation of dental caries and dermatoglyphics in pediatric cases
Background: Dental caries is a multifactorial disease, and its etiology has been advocated to various environmental and genetic factors. Dermatoglyphics is the study of dermal ridges on the palmar and plantar surfaces of hands and feet.
Prakruti H Sanghani +2 more
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Revision of Dadagulella gen. nov., the “Gulella radius group” (Gastropoda: Streptaxidae) of the eastern Afrotropics, including six new species and three new subspecies [PDF]
The genus Dadagulella gen. nov. is described to include 16 species of small, dentate, ovateacuminate Afrotropical snails. An identification key is provided and biogeography, anatomy and systematics are discussed. The type species is the Kenyan D. radius (
Rowson, Ben, Tattersfield, Peter
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An assessment of the genus Columbella Lamarck, 1799 (Gastropoda: Columbellidae) from eastern Atlantic [PDF]
Three species of the neogastropod genus Columbella Lamarck, 1799 are recognised from the northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. One is the common Mediterranean C.
Demaintenon, Marta J. +4 more
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Taxonomy and palaeoecology of continental Gastropoda (Mollusca) from the Late Pleistocene mammoth-bearing site of Bullendorf in NE Austria [PDF]
We present a taxonomic and palaeoecological analysis of a continental mollusc fauna from a mammoth-bearing succession near Bullendorf in Lower Austria.
Carobene, Daria +3 more
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Heritability estimates of the position and number of facial hair whorls in Thoroughbred horses
Objective According to oral traditions of horse caretakers and trainers, the differences in the position and number of facial hair whorls may be associated with temperamental traits.
Tamu Yokomori +7 more
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