Sequencing. The zebra finch DNA for shotgun sequencing, and for bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) and cosmid libraries was derived from a single male (Black 17) domesticated zebra finch from the laboratory of Dr. Arthur P. Arnold in the Department of Physiological Science at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. The parents of this male hatched in the same clutch in an aviary of group-housed zebra fi...

In a recent Opinion in TREE [1], Gurevitch and Padilla question the generalization that biological invasions are a leading cause of species extinctions. The authors note that declines of native species frequently overlap in space and time with invasions by alien species, and these co-occurrences are sometimes used to infer a causal relationship – a potentially erroneous conclusion given that a ...

The entry of alien predatory fish in Indonesian waters has a negative impact on local ecosystems Indonesia, foreign can spread disease, become main predators and cause imbalance the food chain. From this study, we report presence type Cichlasoma urophthalmus (Günther 1862) or Mayan Cichlid from tropical North America caught Kedung Ombo Reservoir, Grobokan Regency, Central Java. species identifi...

We estimated a novel phylogeny of tilapiine cichlid fish (an assemblage endemic to Africa and the Near East) within the African cichlid fishes on the basis of complete mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2) gene sequences. The ND2 (1,047 bp) gene was sequenced in 39 tilapiine cichlids (38 species and 1 subspecies) and in an additional 14 nontilapiine cichlid species in order to evalua...

Birds exhibit a remarkable diversity of different reproductive strategies both between and within species. Species such as the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) may evolve the flexible use of alternative reproductive strategies, as well as benefit from prior breeding experience, which allows them to adaptively respond to unpredictable environments. In birds, the flexible use of alternative repr...

When a fluid with a bulk liquid-vapor critical point is placed inside a static external field with spatial periodic oscillations in one direction, a new phase arises. This new phase-the so-called "zebra" phase-is characterized by an average density roughly between that of the liquid and vapor phases. The presence of the zebra phase gives rise to two new phase transitions: one from the vapor to ...