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Ancient insights
“Constructing an island for birds is the best demonstration of the environmental sensibility here in landlocked Kars. Beside providing a haven for breeding birds, this island will promote Kars and Lake Kuyucuk,” he said. “We have so far recorded 206 species of birds at Kuyucuk, sometimes exceeding 40,000 individuals at once,” he said. The reedbeds around the lake that provided shelter and nesti...
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Organisms must adapt to seasonal changes in the environment and time their physiology accordingly. In vertebrates, the annual change in photoperiod is often critical for entraining the neuroendocrine pathways, which drive seasonal metabolic and reproductive cycles. These cycles depend on thyroid hormone (TH), reflecting its ancestral role in metabolic control. Recent studies reveal that--in mam...
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Ever since the discovery of parasitic inclusions in erythrocytes of cattle in Romania by Victor Babes at the end of the 19th century, newly recognised babesial pathogens continue to emerge around the world and the substantial public health impact of babesiosis on livestock and man is ongoing. Babesia are transmitted by ixodid ticks and infection of the host causes a host-mediated pathology and ...
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CO2 H2O^ HCO3 H (Eq. 1) The first carbonic anhydrase was purified from erythrocytes in 1933 (1) followed by the characterization of several mammalian isozymes that dominated research on carbonic anhydrase until recently. Although it has been known since the 1940s that carbonic anhydrase is ubiquitous in plants (2), where it is essential for CO2 fixation, relatively few studies had been reported...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.007