We describe Solanum baretiaesp. nov., a new species of Solanum section Anarrhichomenum, named in honor of Jeanne Baret, who sailed as the assistant to botanist Philibert Commerson on Louis Antoine de Bougainville's global circumnavigation (1766-1769). The species is similar to Solanum chimborazense, but differs in having larger flowers, more flowers per inflorescence, and different patterns of ...

The sequence of a cDNA encoding the corticotropin-releasing factor precursor has been identified by screening lambda gt11 libraries constructed from poly(A)+ RNA of the hypothalamic region of the white sucker Catostomus commersoni brain with synthetic oligonucleotide probes deduced from the sequence of the rat corticotropin-releasing factor. The amino acid sequence of corticotropin-releasing fa...

Appendix S2. Adult males of: a) the common noctule Nyctalus noctula; b) black-winged little yellow bat Rhogeessa tumida. S3. male buffy flower Erophylla sezekorni; detail of wet postorbital glandular area. S4. Frontal gland in an adult Commerson's roundleaf Macronycteris commersoni, natural state (a) and everted by researcher (b). Please note: The publisher is not responsible for content or fun...

The risk imposed upon society by consumption of foods contaminated with metals and metalloids is an environmental problem attributed to the increasing number of mining extraction activities currently underway in Colombia. The aim of the current study was to determine concentrations of mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and a metalloid arsenic (As) found in the species of most consumed fish ...

Türkiye kıyılarından bildirilen yabancı balık türü sayısı 80'e ulaşırken, Ege Denizi 44'tür. Diğer taraftan, İzmir Körfezi'nden Lessepsiyen 15'tir. türleri sırasıyla Saurida lessepsianus, Lagocephalus sceleratus, Siganus rivulatus, S. luridus, Scomberomorus commerson, Bregmaceros nectabanus, Champsodon vorax, Etrumeus golanii, Stephanolepis diaspros, Nemipterus randalli, Upeneus moluccensis, He...