Although the motor control of feeding is presumed to be generally conserved, some fishes are capable of modulating the feeding behaviour in response to prey type and or prey size. This led to the 'feeding modulation hypothesis', which states that rapid suction strikes are pre-programmed stereotyped events that proceed to completion once initiated regardless of sensory input. If this hypothesis ...

From an immunologist perspective, sharks are an important group of jawed cartilaginous fishes and survey of the public database revealed a great gap in availability of large-scale sequence data for the group of Chondrichthyans the elasmobranchs. In an attempt to bridge this deficit we generated the transcriptome from the spleen and kidney tissues (a total of 1,606,172 transcripts) of the shark,...

In May 2019, during a routine canopy survey near the National Forest Ecosystem Research Station at Xishuangbanna, in southwest China, an Asian black-webbed treefrog (Rhacophorus kio) was observed resting on leaf of flowering Parashorea chinensis tree (right). The same species again October only this time perched epiphyte (Microsorum punctatum) crown adult P (left). heights these particular dipt...

Organization and Development of the Embryo is based on a series of Silliman Lectures at Yale University given by Ross G. Harrison in 1949 under the same title. Professor Harrison was unable to prepare these lectures for publication because of illness, but his assistant, Miss Sally Wilens, has assembled in this volume the notes and papers of Professor Harrison on which the content of the lecture...

BACKGROUND The emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR) pathogens is of great concern to the global health community. Our ability to effectively treat diseases is based on the discovery of potent drugs for the treatment of these challenging diseases. Traditional medicines are one of the major sources for the discovery of safe, effective and economical drug candidates. In order to validate its ant...