Frugivores and cheap fruits make fruiting fruitful

Frugivores and cheap fruits make fruiting fruitful.

Animal seed dispersal provides an important ecosystem service by strongly benefiting plant communities. There are several theoretical studies on the ecology of plant-animal seed-disperser interactions, but few studies have explored the evolution of this mutualism. Moreover, these studies ignore plant life history and frugivore foraging behaviour. Thus, it remains an open question what the condi...

How to make a cheap and simple prostate phantom.

Received February 16, 2010, from the Broadgreen Urology Center, Royal Liverpool University National Health Service Trust, Liverpool, England. Revision requested February 21, 2010. Revised manuscript accepted for publication April 8, 2010. Address correspondence to Richard Wilkin, MBChB, Attn Denise Roberts, Broadgreen Urology Center, Royal Liverpool University National Health Service Trust, Liv...

Fruitful insights

leeches and earthworms. It is not yet clear just how many of these are new discoveries, though the number is in the hundreds, but it is estimated that anywhere from one to nine million ocean species remain to be found, making this haul just the tip of the iceberg. The divers also placed little structures they refer to as doll's houses, but more formally known as Autonomous Reef Monitoring Syste...

A fruitful and gratifying collaboration.

Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish.

Because the size of the thymus in children is much larger than in adults, thymus output is widely believed to be responsible for the development of the peripheral T-cell pool during childhood. This idea is strengthened by the associations between age and the rate of T-cell reconstitution in lymphopenic patients,1 and between thymus involution and decreasing naive T-cell numbers per microliter o...