The striped bass (Morone saxatilis) is an economically and ecologically important finfish species along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. Recent stock assessments in Chesapeake Bay (U.S.A.) indicate that non-fishing mortality in striped bass has increased since 1999, concomitant with very high (>50%) prevalence of visceral and dermal disease caused by Mycobacterium spp. Current fisher...

In species with discrete morphs exhibiting alternative behavioral strategies, individuals may vary their aggressive behavior in competitive encounters according to the phenotype of their opponent. Such aggression bias has been documented in multiple polymorphic species evolving under negative frequency-dependent selection, but it has not been well-studied under other selection regimes. We inves...

The four-striped mouse has a grey to brown coloured coat with four characteristic dark stripes interspersed with three lighter stripes running along its back. The histological differences in the skin of the juvenile and adult mouse were investigated by Haematoxylin and Eosin and Masson Trichrome staining, while melanocytes in the skin were studied through melanin-specific Ferro-ferricyanide sta...

The differential allocation hypothesis assumes that animals should weigh costs and benefits of investing into reproduction with a current mate against the expected quality of future mates, and predicts that they should invest more into reproduction when pairing with a high-quality mate. In the broad-nosed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle), males care for the embryos in a brood pouch and females comp...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) has a high level of genetic variation in fruit color, which is an important quality trait considered by breeders and consumers. The stripe color pattern determined the green (gs) locus observed only peel tissue tomato. Using two different F2 populations (351 97 individuals), we mapped gs to long arm chromosome 7 found that it cosegregated with TOMATO AGAMOUS-LIKE 1...

We simulate traces for a catalog of spatiotemporally complex pulses measured using a single-shot complete spatiotemporal pulse-measurement technique we recently developed, called Spatially and Temporally Resolved Intensity and Phase Evaluation Device: Full Information from a Single Hologram (STRIPED FISH). The only such technique ever developed to our knowledge, STRIPED FISH measures the comple...

In the pipefish Syngnathus typhle, pregnant males provide all parental care. Females are able to produce more eggs than males can brood, and consequently females compete more intensely for mates than do males, a phenomenon defined as sex-role reversal. As the genetic mating system influences the operation of sexual selection, we investigate variation in one phenotypic component of mate quality,...

The recovery of antioxidant compounds present in sunflower hulls, a waste byproduct the oil extraction process, can be industrial and environmental interest. objective work was to determine different operating conditions for phenolic from hulls seeds, using water at 90 °C mechanical agitation. To select experimental conditions, black hull hybrid (SPS3120) were analyzed, five particle sizes (&gt...