1. The marbled murrelet Brachyramphus marmoratus is a threatened Alcid nesting in old-growth coastal forests from central California to Alaska. Logging has greatly reduced the amount and altered the pattern of the species’ nesting habitat. Landscape fragmentation effects on the breeding ecology of the species are poorly understood because of the inaccessibility of nest sites. 2. Using radio-tel...

Boneless top loin subprimals (n = 320) from Slight and Small marbled carcasses were fabricated into 2.54-cm thick steaks to determine core location effects on tenderness. In Exp. 1, top loins were aged to 7 d before steaks were cut and cooked to an internal temperature of 71 degrees C. After cooking, a maximum of 15 1.27-cm diameter cores were removed and sheared with a Warner-Bratzler shear fo...

This extension note summarizes the application of two new methods that were developed to assess the quality of forest habit that Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) use for nesting in British Columbia: air photo interpretation and low-level aerial surveys. Both methods use comparable sixlevel ranking systems that are based on the availability of forest attributes deemed important for n...

Abstract In this study, the hemolymph vascular system (HVS) in two cambarid crayfishes, i.e. Marbled Crayfish, Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017 and Spiny Cheek Faxonius limosus (Rafinesque, 1817), is investigated regard of areas non-genetic phenotypic variation. Despite their genetic identity, specimens P. show variability certain features HVS. Thus, we describe varying branching patterns, spo...

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L I N D E N (1963) first reported that the paramutation process in maize was radiosensitive. He showed that when pollen from plants homozygous for either paramutable standard R' or paramutagenic R alleles such as Rst (stippled aleurone) and Rmb (marbled aleurone) was gamma-irradiated, paramutation was altered in the heterozygotes into which these alleles were subsequently introduced. Evidence i...