The herbarium of Hans Sloane in the Natural History Museum’s Department of Botany is a cunning object: a book of colonial nature that contains ethnographic artefacts in the guise of natural specimens. The eight volumes of Sloane’s specimens from his Jamaican voyage of 1687–1689 hold both dried plants and sample foodstuffs, many together with the original drawings prepared for the engravings of ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Because legumes can add nitrogen (N) to ecosystems through symbiotic fixation, they play important roles in many plant communities, such as prairies and grasslands. However, very little research has examined the effect of projected climate change on legume growth and function. Our goal was to study the effects of temperature on growth, nodulation, and N chemistry of prairie...

Plant species, plant community diversity and microbial interactions can significantly impact soil microbial communities, yet there are few data on the interactive effects of plant species and plant community diversity on soil bacterial communities. We hypothesized that plant species and plant community diversity affect soil bacterial communities by setting the context in which bacterial interac...

J. P. Lees, V. Poireau, V. Tisserand, E. Grauges, A. Palano, G. Eigen, D. N. Brown, Yu. G. Kolomensky, H. Koch, T. Schroeder, C. Hearty, T. S. Mattison, J. A. McKenna, R. Y. So, V. E. Blinov, A. R. Buzykaev, V. P. Druzhinin, V. B. Golubev, E. A. Kravchenko, A. P. Onuchin, S. I. Serednyakov, Yu. I. Skovpen, E. P. Solodov, K. Yu. Todyshev, A. J. Lankford, J. W. Gary, O. Long, A. M. Eisner, W. S. ...

We have used mitochondrial 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA and nuclear beta-fibrinogen (intron 7) sequences to investigate the phylogenetic and phylogeographic relationships between Acanthodactylus erythrurus group species (except for A. boueti). The phylogenetic analyses of the Acanthodactylus genus did not cluster A. guineensis and A. savignyi with the remaining species of the group (A. blanci, A. lineoma...

Enteric pathogens associated with chronic diarrhoea in HIV-positive patients were studied . The study was conducted during January 1995-December 1998. Stool specimens from all diarrhoea patients (n=26) were examined microscopically for ova and parasites using wet preparations and stained smears. Stool samples from diarrhoea patients were also cultured on appropriate media to isolate enteric bac...

Isospora belli, like Cryptosporidium sp., a sporozoan parasite of the small intestine, has been isolated from both immunodeficient and immunologically normal persons. In immunocompetent persons the infection may be asymptomatic; it frequently causes mild and self-limited diarrhea. The spectrum of the disease in persons with acquired immune deficiency syndrome is not well established. I. belli d...

Peri-partum posture and behaviour of gilts from lines selected for different components of efficient lean growth were studied to determine if behavioural changes may have been associated with the observed responses in reproductive performance. The proportions of time that gilts expressed defined posture and behaviour traits and the locations of their piglets were determined from video recording...

The objective of this experiment was to determine if increasing lysine in the diets of immunologically castrated (IC) male pigs would affect further processed product characteristics when compared with physical castrates or entire males. Raw materials for this experiment were derived from a previous experiment evaluating carcass characteristics. Physical castrates, IC males, and entire males we...

this paper will examine how muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of divine unity (taw¤hīd), the quran, sunnah of the prophet muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the west in the twentieth century. the article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philos...