DNA-based sex tests now exist for many avian species. However, none of these tests are widely applicable to ratites. We present DNA sequence data for a locus that is W chromosome-linked in the kiwi, ostrich, cassowary, rhea, and emu. At the amino acid level, this sequence has significant homology to X-linked genes in platyfish and Caenorhabditis elegans. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers ...

A. Renken b,∗, V. Hessel a,c, P. Löb a, R. Miszczuk b, M. Uerdingen d, L. Kiwi-Minsker b a Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH, Carl-Zeiss-Str. 18-20, D-55129 Mainz, Germany b Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SB-ISIC-GGRC-Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland c Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands d Solvent Innovation GmbH, Nattermann...

Safety recommendations for vacuum-assisted delivery focus on limiting the number of pulls and the duration of the procedure. With the introduction of the Kiwi OmniCup vacuum extractor incorporating a Traction Force Indicator, it is now possible to reliably monitor and control the amount of traction force exerted on the fetal scalp. The OmniCup was used in a prospective observational study of 11...

Background Allergy to Apium graveolens is one of the more severe food allergies. Six celery allergens have been characterised, Api g 1-6, while additional allergens have characterised from other members of the Magnoliospida class, including kiwi, peanut and ragweed, suggesting homologous allergens may also be present in celery. The participants of the Omics Allergy School 2013 were provided wit...

Gall bladder mucocele (GBM) may currently represent the most common indication for surgical management of extra-hepatic biliary tract disease in dogs. It has not yet been convincingly described in cats. The underlying lesion has been described as cystic mucosal hyperplasia. Hypersecretion of mucus progressively leads to an accumulation of gelatinous bile within the gall bladder lumen. Increased...

A new non-destructive index of absorbance difference (IAD), calculated with different wavelengths as references, near the chlorophyll peak or that for anthocyanin, has been used to determine fruit ripening several species using portable devices such Standard DA-Meter® and Kiwi-Meter®. In this study, first time, application IAD was evaluated on single, intact olives Leccino cultivar, a single ma...

curls and curves of a shell interweave its various strain modes and link them together. this interactional behavior has yet frustrated all attempts for the construction of shell templates, which needs for an individual element test in traditional approaches. such a test fails to work for shell elements and must be reconstructed. in this paper, it is tried to study shell interactional behavior a...

Background We report the case of a 51 years old female that suffered from a systemic anaphylactic episode 5 minutes after the ingestion of manioc at the age of 50. This patient reported rhinoconjunctivitis since she was 20 years-old after contact with latex gloves and rhinoconjunctivitis and oral allergy syndrome after the ingestion of kiwi, banana and mango since the age of 30. The patient had...

In the framework of spherical geometry for jellium and local spin density approximation, we have obtained the equilibrium rs values, r̄s(N, ζ), of neutral and singly ionized “generic” N -electron clusters for their various spin polarizations, ζ. Our results reveal that r̄s(N, ζ) as a function of ζ behaves differently depending on whether N corresponds to a closed-shell or an openshell cluster. Th...