For the emu, where monogamous mating is normal, artificial insemination (AI) promises much faster genetic improvement and a considerable reduction in production costs by reducing the number of male birds needed for mating. Semen collection is now a routine procedure so the next step is to develop successful protocols for sperm storage. In this paper, we briefly overview our recent progress on t...

Structural and magnetic properties of Cu 2+ substituted Ni0.8-xCuxZn0.2Fe2O4 ferrites for x = 0.0 to 0.6 with the step increment of 0.2 prepared by an auto-combustion method have been investigated. The X-ray diffraction pattern of these compositions confirmed the formation of the single phase spinel structure. Further, the XRD have been used to calculate the lattice parameter and grain size. Th...

In mammalian cells, little is known about the nature of recombination-prone regions of the genome. Previously, we reported that the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) mu locus behaved as a hotspot for mitotic, intrachromosomal gene conversion (GC) between repeated mu constant (Cmu) regions in mouse hybridoma cells. To investigate whether elements within the mu gene regulatory region were required...

BACKGROUND Urine LAM testing has been approved by the WHO for use in hospitalised patients with advanced immunosuppression. However, sensitivity remains suboptimal. We therefore examined the incremental diagnostic sensitivity of early morning urine (EMU) versus random urine sampling using the Determine® lateral flow lipoarabinomannan assay (LF-LAM) in HIV-TB co-infected patients. METHODS Cons...

EMU is a system for labelling, managing and retrieving data from speech databases such as the Australian ANDOSL database or the US TIMIT. EMU is a re-implementation of the earlier MU+ system (Harrington, Cassidy, Fletcher, and McVeigh 1993) with the aim of providing a more flexible environment. The hierarchical structures and database query facility have been generalised and the system has been...

The crystal structure of the ordered fluorite, Pr RuO , was refined from powder neutron diffraction data in Cmcm. An interesting 3 7 structural feature is the presence of relatively well separated zig-zag chains of corner sharing RuO octahedra, Ru–Ru interchain distance 6 ̊ ̊ 6.61 A vs. Ru–Ru intrachain distance of 3.76 A. Magnetic susceptibility data show a Curie–Weiss behavior for T.225 K with ...

Infecting mice with a mutant Moloney murine leukemia virus which contains the bacterial suppressor tRNA supF in its LTR allows rapid cloning of proviral integration sites from genomic tumour DNA. In a previous study Emu pim-1/Emu L-myc bitransgenic mice had been inoculated neonatally with MoMuLV supF virus. The retroviral infection led to acceleration of lymphomagenesis indicating the proviral ...

This study examined ontogenetic patterns of limb loading, bone strains, and relative changes in bone geometry to explore the relationship between in vivo mechanics and size-related changes in the limb skeleton of two vertebrate taxa. Despite maintaining similar relative limb loads during ontogeny, bone strain magnitudes in the goat radius and emu tibiotarsus generally increased. However, while ...