California has a fire-prone Mediterranean climate, and many of its nine species of native oak trees are thought to have evolved with fire. Little has been widely published about the role of fire in the oak recruitment and mortality in the western United States, and there has been some debate about how to reintroduce fire into oak woodlands. We present here a review, synthesis, and analysis of t...

Nucleotide sequences from the plastome are currently the main source for assessing taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships in flowering plants and their historical biogeography at all hierarchical levels. One major exception is the large and economically important genus Quercus (oaks). Whereas differentiation patterns of the nuclear genome are in agreement with morphology and the fossil record...

Oak savannas, once common in the Midwest, are now isolated remnants within agricultural landscapes. Savanna remnants are frequently encroached by invasive trees to become woodlands. Thinning and prescribed burning can restore savanna structure, but the ecohydrological effects of managing these remnants are poorly understood. In this study, we measured sap flow (Js) to quantify transpiration in ...

Michael N. Rossol, John H. Shaw, Hrishikesh Bale, Robert O. Ritchie, David B. Marshall,k and Frank W. Zok Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 kTeledyne Scien...

St Vincent’s Institute, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia, Centre for Functional Genomics and Human Disease, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, 27-31 Wright Street, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3050, Australia, Amgen, One Amgen Centre Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Researc...

1Leukemia Department, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; 2Cancer Therapy & Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX; 3Stanford University Cancer Center, Stanford, CA; 4University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 5Division of Hematological Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY; 6Mount Sinai School of Medi...

AuthOr: rONAld A. POPPEr Md, FCCP, FAASM Medical Director of the Southern California Pulmonary and Sleep Disorders Medical Center, Thousand Oaks, Ca. Dr. Popper is Board Certified by the American Boards of Internal, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine. The Sleep Center is fully accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Popper is a member of the speakers Bureau for the National Sleep Fo...

Title: Targeting IGF-1R with ganitumab inhibits tumorigenesis and increases durability of response to androgen-deprivation therapy in VCaP prostate cancer xenografts Authors: Cale D Fahrenholtz , Pedro J Beltran, Kerry L Burnstein 1 Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA. 2 Oncology Research Therapeutic Area, Amgen Inc.,...

INTRODUCTION As the Wisconsin ice sheets retreated to the North toward the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, tundra and boreal vegetation that had dominated the Central Hardwood Region began to be replaced by hardwood species. Spurred on by the warming climate and the widespread use of fire by Native Americans, oaks (Quercus spp.) gradually dominated the region (Abrams 2002, Carroll and others 2002).