Winter studies

Molecular genetic studies of the memory of winter.

Many plant species have evolved the ability to flower in the proper season by sensing environmental cues. The prolonged cold of winter is one such cue that certain plants use to acquire competence to flower the following spring. For example, biennials and winter annuals become established in one growing season and often flower quickly in the early spring of the following year to complete their ...

Winter 2001

Based on research conducted by NCBI’s comparative genomics group, the database of Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins (COGs) represents a phylogenetic classification of proteins encoded in complete genomes. The COGs are derived from an “all-against-all” sequence comparison of the encoded proteins. Each COG consists of individual proteins or groups of paralogs from at least three lineages...

Winter worries

spend the next nine months without making landfall. And it is becoming increasingly clear that very little is known about the birds during this time. As they breed only above 50 degrees latitude, they are considered cold-water birds, but researchers working with puffins breeding at England's largest colony on the Farne Islands are concerned about their winter environment as there has recently b...

Winter boost

Over-wintering monarch butterflies in the forests of central Mexico may be looking forward to more secure rest following an announcement by the Mexican government of a budget boost of $4.6 million per year to improve the conditions for the migrant butterflies and for the many often prominent human visitors, and to tackle illegal logging. Conservation officials said that the additional funds for...

Notes for MAT 7500 – Winter '93, revised Winter '06