The western Ordos Plateau is a key area of shrub diversity and a National Nature Reserve of endangered shrub species in north-west China. Desert expansion is becoming the most important threat to these endangered species. However, little is known about the effects of sand burial on the dynamics of the shrub community. This study aims to investigate how the shrubs as a community and as different...

MOTIVATION It has been recently suggested that atomic burials, as expressed by molecular central distances, contain sufficient information to determine the tertiary structure of small globular proteins. A possible approach to structural determination from sequence could therefore involve a sequence-to-burial intermediate prediction step whose accuracy, however, is theoretically limited by the m...

the effects of environmental factors on germination and emergence of hoary cress seeds were examined in laboratory and field experiments. germinability of hoary cress under light/dark conditions (90%) was significantly higher than when seeds were incubated under continuous dark (78%). hoary cress could germinate in a broad range of temperatures (15/6, 20/10, 25/15, 30/15, and 35/20?c). the germ...

1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ajou University School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea, 2Genomic Instability Research Center, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea, 3Department of Life Science, Division of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Center for Cell Signaling and Drug D...

The publisher wishes to apologize for incorrectly displaying the names and affiliations of authors (Hee Jin Kim and Bom Sahn Kim). We correct their names and affiliations from “Hee Jin Kim” to “Hee-Jin Kim”, adding “Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University” as additional affiliation (current address), and “Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ewha Womans University School of ...

1Department of Life Sciences, Division of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Center for Cell Signaling & Drug Discovery Research, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea 2Division of Cancer Cell Research, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan 3Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical Center, University of Münster, D-48...