The Vagaries of Exemplarity: Distortion or Dismissal?

Vagaries of the molecular clock.

The hypothesis of the molecular evolutionary clock asserts that informational macromolecules (i.e., proteins and nucleic acids) evolve at rates that are constant through time and for different lineages. The clock hypothesis has been extremely powerful for determining evolutionary events of the remote past for which the fossil and other evidence is lacking or insufficient. I review the evolution...

The vagaries of informed consent.

Free or Limited Dismissal by Enterprise Owners in Germany

Multinational corporations pay great attention to the dismissal caused by enterprise owners (Arbeitgeberkündigung), especially in the fierce competition of market economy. In fact, the limits of dismissal rights of employers are also a key issue in human resources management. However, the importance of solving this problem reasonably is beyond the law itself. Once the rationality of the premise...

The Vagaries of Adipose Tissue Innervation

Adipose tissue does not seem to be innervated in any significant manner by the vagus nerve after all. As reported by Giordano et al. in this issue, retrograde tracing with pseudorabies virus from at least one fat pad in the Syrian hamster reveals only the occasional neuron in the vagal motor nucleus and nerve fibers in adipose tissue of mouse, rat, and hamster do not exhibit any of the markers ...

Vagaries of adipose tissue innervation.

ADIPOSE TISSUE DOES NOT SEEM to be innervated in any significant manner by the vagus nerve after all. As reported by Giordano et al. (9) in this issue, retrograde tracing with pseudorabies virus from at least one fat pad in the Siberian hamster reveals only the occasional neuron in the vagal motor nucleus and nerve fibers in adipose tissue of mouse, rat, and hamster do not exhibit any of the ma...