Comparative genome mapping can rapidly facilitate the transfer of DNA sequence information from a well-characterized species to one that is less described. Chromosome arm numbers are conserved between members of the teleost family Salmonidae, order Salmoniformes, permitting rapid alignment of large syntenic blocks of DNA between members of the group. However, extensive Robertsonian rearrangemen...

Myxobolus squamalis is a myxozoan skin parasite first reported from rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Identification of the parasite based on myxospore morphology is unreliable because M. squamalis is similar to several other myxobolids that share host species and geographic ranges. The only ssrRNA gene sequence available for M. squamalis is from Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, bu...

This survey is based on a conceptual review of whiteness as an analytical category studies involving race relations and the construction white racial identity. The term coined before relations, especially against ideology whitening forms eugenics, which gives ideal model human being. In this conjuncture whites' power in relation to blacks, humanity becomes divided between races that are hierarc...

The type of featural attention differentially modulates hMT+ responses to illusory 1 motion aftereffects 2 3 Miguel Castelo-Branco, Lajos R. Kozak, Elia Formisano, João Teixeira, João 4 Xavier, Rainer Goebel 5 6 Visual Neuroscience Laboratory, IBILI, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra 7 3000-354 Coimbra, Portugal; Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of 8 Sciences, H-1068 Budapes...

The checkers program Chinook has earned the right to challenge for the World Checkers Championship. The experiences gained in developing the program and preparing for the match illustrate several important obstacles to successfully mounting a challenge to the human World Champion. These points appear to be directly applicable to chess, and the checkers experience may well be a preview of what i...

Defining selection criteria is important to obtain promising genotypes in a breeding program. The objective of this study was to estimate genetic parameters for agronomic traits and to perform soybean line selection using selection indices. The experiment was conducted at an experimental area located at Capim Branco farm, belonging to the Federal University of Uberlândia. A total of 37 soybean ...

BACKGROUND Changes in weather and season have been linked to stroke occurrence. However, the association has been inconsistent across stroke types. Calgary is a city in the Chinook belt and is subject to high variability in weather conditions. METHODS We obtained hourly weather data over a 5-year period from 1996 to 2000; Chinook events were identified according to the accepted definition. We...

In the late 1960s, Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha from the Green River, Washington, were successfully introduced into Lake Michigan. During spring from 1988 to 1992, large fish die-offs affecting Chinook salmon occurred in the lake. Multiple ecological factors probably contributed to the severity of the fish kills, but the only disease agent found regularly was Renibacterium salmoninar...

Many juvenile Snake River Chinook salmon are transported downriver to avoid hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River basin. As mortality to the final dam is ∼50%, transported fish should return as adults at roughly double the rate of nontransported fish; however, the benefit of transportation has not been realized consistently. "Delayed" mortality caused by transportation-induced stress is one ...