A substantial body of evidence has correlated the human body burdens of some polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants with cognitive and other behavioral deficits. Adult zebrafish exhibit testable learning and memory, making them an increasingly attractive model for neurotoxicology. Our goal was to develop a rapid throughput means of...
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fertilization to either PBDE 47 (0.1 uM) , PBDE 99 (0.1 uM) 30
or PBDE 153 (0.1 uM), vehicle (0.1% DMSO), or
Management of marine ecosystems increasingly demands comprehensive and quantitative assessments of ocean health,
but lacks a tool to do so. We applied the recently developed Ocean Health Index to assess ocean health in the relatively
data-rich US west coast region. The overall region scored 71 out of 100, with sub-regions...
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recreation (99) and clean waters (87), while the lowest scoring
goals were sense of place (48) and artisanal
Background:
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus (Togaviridae, Alphavirus) is a highly pathogenic mosquito-borne zoonosis that is responsible for occasional outbreaks of severe disease in humans and equines, resulting in high mortality and neurological impairment in most survivors. In the past, human disease outbreaks in the northeastern U.S. have occurred intermittently...
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collection and analysis,
decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
>99% of blood meals were
Subduction zone earthquake and tsunami hazards affect tens of millions worldwide and the recurrence of these disasters can be evaluated with paleoseismic techniques, because earthquake cycles (and their supercycles) typically span many millennia. In these three chapters, I discuss a suite of analyses I use to evaluate the sedimentary record...
Mycoplasma haemolamae is associated with mild to marked anemia in stressed, immune-suppressed, and debilitated animals, and may be found in low numbers in healthy animals. The continued presence of the organism, detectable by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assay, may be associated with an underlying problem, such as stress or immune-suppression...
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• Plasma Protein (PP)
– 6-7 mg/dl
– General health status of animal
• Body Temperature
– 99-101.8 ˚F
A sequence of volcanic, volcaniclastic, and epiclastic deposits from Oligocene to Recent age are exposed in the region from Lake
Simtustus to Madras in central Oregon. The epiclastic sediments of the Oligocene John Day Formation are unconformably overlain by two flows of the middle Miocene Columbia River Basalt Group. The...
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basalt. 96
12. Chemical analyses of Round Butte cinder cone and lava
flow. 99
THE GEOLOGY AND
We compiled Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata) and Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) locations in northwestern North America, consolidating data from multiple sources including nine U.S. State and Canadian Provincial jurisdictions. We assessed numbers of discrete locations, and analyzed distribution patterns temporally and spatially. Western Pond Turtle observation records ranged from...
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of Fish and Game (CNDDB), US Forest Service (FS), University of
California at Berkeley - Museum of
The interplay of natural selection and genetic drift, influenced by geographic isolation, mating systems and population size, determines patterns of genetic diversity within species. The sperm whale provides an interesting example of a long-lived species with few geographic barriers to dispersal. Worldwide mtDNA diversity is relatively low, but highly structured...
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expansion
We tested for a population expansion in the mtDNA
data set by assessing Fu’s Fs (Fu 1997) and
Several triazine herbicides were evaluated during the fall of 1967 and the spring and summer of 1958 on a variety of crop and week species to determine their potential selective and soil sterilant value.
Previous studies have reported that the metastable vaterite phase of calcium carbonate can be stabilized in solution by acidic additives. Here we demonstrate that vaterite can also be stabilized directly at surfaces by engineered peptides. Our data show that the mineralisation occurs in a 'self-templating' process where calcium ions restructure...
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saline
(PBS), CaCl2·2H2O (≥99%) were purchased from Sigma. NaHCO3 (analytical grade, 100%) was