The microtubule (MT) plus-end motor kinesin heavy chain (Khc) is well known for its role in long distance cargo transport. Recent evidence showed that Khc is also required for the organization of the cellular MT network bymediating MT sliding. We found that mutations in Khc and the gene of its adaptor protein, kinesin light chain (Klc) resulted in identical bristle morphology defects, with the ...

The year 2012 marks the quatercentenary of the birth of Dawbeney Turbervile,MD(1612-1696), one-time Royalist soldier and later ophthalmologist to England’s Princess Anne, the diarist Samuel Pepys, the natural philosopher Robert Boyle, and the astronomer Walter Pope. Turbervile is remarkable for many reasons: He specialized at a time when generalization was prized; though he was a qualified phys...

The crystal structure of a natural tobermorite from Zeilberg, Maroldsweisach, Germany (average formula Ca2.2s[Si307.s(OH)1.5]'1 H20), is solved using the data obtained from an automatic diffractometer. For the structure determination only the sharp main reflexions are considered. The crystal data of the chosen subcell are: a' = 5.586(4) A, b' = 1696(2) A, C = 22.779(7) A, S.G. Imm2, V = 470.25 ...

Gene mapping for a Cupressus species is presented for the first time. Two linkage maps for the Mediterranean cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) varieties, C. sempervirens var. horizontalis and C. sempervirens var. pyramidalis, were constructed following the pseudo-testcross mapping strategy and employing RAPD, SCAR and morphological markers. A total of 427 loci (425 RAPDs, two SCARs) repres...

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