More than 4,000 specimens of fruits and seeds were extracted
from the matrix removed from inside the skulls of sabre-tooth cats
excavated from various pits in the Rancho La Brea deposits. Of this
number, spproximately 1,445 specimens are involved in this study.
Many comparisons with modern fruits and seeds made...
Contracting nucleolar vacuoles are a general and consistent
feature of somatic tobacco cells growing in microcultures. Nucleolar
vacuoles were studied in cells from callus tissues of two
single-cell clones, H-196 and H-239, of hybrid tobacco (Nicotiana
tabacum X N. glutinosa). Vacuoles periodically contracted either
completely or incompletely, apparently releasing a...