This article describes the characterization of a new Drosophila gene that we have called pitchoune (pit) (meaning small in Provence) because mutations in this gene produce larvae that cannot grow beyond the first instar larval stage although they can live as long as 7-10 days. All the tissues are equally affected and the perfectly shaped larvae are indistinguishable from first instar wild-type ...

Forty-four strains of Vibrio anguillarum serogroup 0 1 isolated from dead or diseased fish from several, mainly European, countries were selected for rRNA gene restriction pattern analysis. With HindIII, 6 different ribotypes were detected of which 1 profile was dominant with respect to geographical distribution as well as fish species. Also with EcoRI, 6 patterns were found; 1 profile was clea...

Imaging with T2-weighting is prescribed in nearly every diagnostic imaging protocol, owing to the fact that in many pathologic states, diseased tissue may be distinguished from normal tissue through apparent differences in T2. Conventional T2-weighted imaging carries with it a heavy time cost, however, as a relatively long time must be allowed between acquisitions in order to allow T1 recovery ...

Subseasonal forecast skill over the broadly defined North American (NAM), West African (WAM) and Asian (AM) summer monsoon regions is investigated using three Ensemble Prediction Systems (EPS) at sub-monthly lead times. Extended Logistic Regression (ELR) is used to produce probabilistic forecasts of weekly and week 3–4 averages of precipitation with starts in May–Aug, over the 1999–2010 period....

The correlations between the bacteriologic agent of lamb pneumonia and its pathologic characters were investigated in this study. Pneumonia was detected in 262 (35.41%) of 740 diseased or dead lambs. Pathogenic bacteria were isolated in 114 cases (14.96% of all lamb deaths and 43.51% of all pneumonias). Lung lesions were histopathologically described as acute-catarrhal (17.56%), catarrhal-purul...

knowledge of the stand condition and the gradual replacement of tree species in different development stages and phases provide appropriate information related to the close to nature treatments. stem exclusion phase is one of the important development phases in the forest stands development. the aim of study was to analyze the characteristics of dead trees in the stem exclusion phase in the les...

Actualistic comparison of death assemblages with local living communities is a standard approach to estimating the quality of paleoecological data, but wide variation in methods of data collection and analysis undermines attempts to draw general conclusions. Here, I apply both standard and meta-analytic statistics to a stringently constructed database of 19 molluscan live–dead studies in order ...