A Left-Handed, Stem-Twining Plant from the Miocene Shanwang Formation of Eastern China

A Left-Handed, Stem-Twining Plant from the Miocene Shanwang Formation of Eastern China

Twining stems of plants are very common in extant tropical and subtropical forests, and the climbing growth habit of plants may be an evolutionary innovation and ecological adaptation to either closed, shady or open, edge environments. However, the origin of handedness in climbing plants remains unclear. Here we report a Miocene (ca. 16 million years ago) macrofossil from the Shanwang Formation...

Fokienia shengxianensis sp. nov. (Cupressaceae) from the late Miocene of eastern China and its paleoecological implications

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

formation and evolution of regional organizations: the case study of the economic cooperation organization (eco)

abstract because of the many geopolitical, geo economical and geo strategically potentials and communicational capabilities of eco region, members can expand the convergence and the integration in base of this organization that have important impact on members development and expanding peace in international and regional level. based on quality analyzing of library findings and experts interv...

The left - handed dou

The con ver sion of right-handed dsDNA and dsRNA to the left-handed Z-con-formation in volves a re or ga ni za tion of the nu cleo tides rel a tive to each other. This con-ver sion can be fa cil i tated by the tight bind ing of a Z-conformation-specific pro tein domain from the ed it ing en zyme dsRNA adenosine deaminase. This may in flu ence the mod i fi ca tion of both pre-mRNAs as well as so...