THE AMPHIAREION AT OROPOS IN CONTEXT - (A.) Wilding Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos. (Mnemosyne Supplements 445.) Pp. xvi + 308, colour figs, b/w & ills, maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. Cased, €120, US$144. ISBN: 978-90-04-40499-1. Volume 73 Issue 1

Figs are a remarkable food resource to frugivores, mainly in periods of general fruit scarcity. Ficus calyptroceras Miq. (Moraceae) is the only fig species in a type of dry forest in western Brazil. In this study I examined the fruiting pattern as well as fig consumption by birds in F. calyptroceras. Although rainfall was highly seasonal, fruiting was aseasonal, since the monthly proportion of ...

For improving production and marketing of agricultural produce, group approach can act as a panacea. In this endeavour, the present study carried out in the Raichur district, has reported the impact of formation of commodity-specific Farmers Interest Groups (FIGs) for pigeonpea and sweet orange crops. After formation of FIGs, several production and marketing interventions were carried like capa...

Acute renal failure (ARF) in the transplanted kidney represents a high-stakes area of nephrology and of transplantation practice. A correct diagnosis can lead to rapid return of renal function; an incorrect diagnosis can lead to loss of the graft and severe sequelae for the patient. The diagnostic possibilities are many (Fig. 10-1) and treatments quite different, although the clinical presentat...

Figs (Ficus spp., Moraceae) and their pollinating wasps (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea) constitute a classic example of an obligate plant-pollinator mutualism, and have become an ideal system for addressing questions on coevolution, speciation, and the maintenance of mutualisms. In addition to pollinating wasps, figs host several types of nonpollinating, parasitic wasps from a diverse ar...

Dried figs collected from various exporting companies (2,461 samples) and local stores (219 samples) were analyzed using reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) to determine and compare the incidence of aflatoxins, the effectiveness of the regulation limits and monitoring system to select non-compliant samples and the mean daily aflatoxin exposures. The incidence rates of...

Effectively characterizing primate diets is fundamental to understanding primate behavior, ecology and morphology. Examining temporal variation in a species' diet, as well as comparing the responses of different species to variation in resource availability, can enhance understanding of the evolution of morphology and socioecology. In this study, we use feeding data collected over five years to...

The article “Mineralized manganese dioxide channel as the stent coating for in situ precise tumor navigation” was erroneously originally published electronically on publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) 31 October 2020 with Figs. 1, 3, 4, 5, and Fig. S3 ESM.

The phenology of plants reflects selection generated by seasonal climatic factors and interactions with other plants and animals, within constraints imposed by their phylogenetic history. Fig trees (Ficus) need to produce figs year-round to support their short-lived fig wasp pollinators, but this requirement is partially de-coupled in dioecious species, where female trees only develop seeds, no...

The problems associated with caprification (pollination) of Calimyrna figs and the desirability of standardizing or, still better, eliminating this cultural operation have been discussed (5). Because of its relatively low cost, low required concentration, and complete lack of injurious effects on fruit and foliage, para-chlorophenoxyacetic acid was found, during the season of 1948, to offer con...