Polymorphism within the promoter region of bovine thyroglobulin has been reported to be associated with milk and meat quality. In this study, we investigated the genetic variation within thyroglobulin promoter region of swamp and riverine buffaloes using PCR-SSCP technique and sequencing, and also analyzing association of polymorphism with the milk production traits. The study revealed four con...

* Professor of Economics, Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE), CNRS and EHESS, 2 rue de la Charité13002 Marseille cedex, France, Telephone: 33-42914836. Fax: 33-42914873. E-Mail: [email protected]. ** Professor of Economics, University of Nantes, France; Professional address: LEMNA Research Center, Nantes School of Economics and Management I.A.E., University of Nantes, Chemin de la ...

In Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons Great Swamp, J. Brent Morris uncovers lives people who self liberated and communities they developed in Swamp. Reviewer Ashely Towle writes that among important revelations book provides is maroons’ were more robust persisted longer than previously understood their very presence undermined institution slavery. Morris’s “deserves high praise” as it a “...

Ecosystems in alpine mountainous regions are usually more vulnerable and easily be disturbed by environmental change globally. Alpine swamp meadow, a unique grassland type in the eastern Tibetan Plateau which provides important ecosystem services to the upstream and downstream regions of international rivers of Asia even the world, is undergoing severe degradation, which can dramatically alter ...

Ecologically, the swamp, or highbush blueberry, Vacxiniunt corymbosum L., differs fundamentally from other cultivated plants in its requirements for an acid soil, a conistant source of moisture (6), and a relatively high anion nutrient uptake (19). In conjunction with studies on blueberry nutrition presented elsewhere (19), data were obtained on the effect of mineral nutrient deficiencies and a...

The study derives Bahr el Jebel flow data at Mongalla, combining upstream flow from Lake Albert and torrential runoff derived from the Collaborative Historical African Rainfall Model (CHARM) rainfall data in the catchment between Lake Albert and Mongalla using GIS techniques. The results provide an updated rating curve for Lake Albert outflows and currently unavailable flow data at Mongalla, th...