The intermediate and medial part of the hyperstriatum ventrale (IMHV) is a restricted region in the chick forebrain that is crucial for the learning process of imprinting. Taken together, the evidence indicates that the IMHV is a site of storage of information about the imprinting stimulus (2). One hour after an hour’s training with an imprinting stimulus, there is an increase, related to the s...

The GLUT members belong to a family of glucose transporter proteins that facilitate glucose transport across the cell membrane. The mammalian GLUT family consists of thirteen members (GLUTs 1-12 and H⁺-myo-inositol transporter (HMIT)). Humans have a recently duplicated GLUT member, GLUT14. Avians express the majority of GLUT members. The arrangement of multiple GLUTs across all somatic tissues ...

BACKGROUND Powered flight is implicated as a major driver for the success of birds. Here we examine the effectiveness of three hypothesized pathways for the evolution of the flight stroke, the forelimb motion that powers aerial locomotion, in a terrestrial setting across a range of stem and basal avians: flap running, Wing Assisted Incline Running (WAIR), and wing-assisted leaping. METHODS Us...

Loss-of-function experiments in avians and mammals have provided conflicting results on the capacity of fibroblast growth factor 3 (FGF3) to act as a secreted growth factor responsible for induction and morphogenesis of the vertebrate inner ear. Using a novel technique for gene transfer into chicken embryos, we have readdressed the role of FGF3 during inner ear development in avians. We find th...

Edwardsiella hoshinae is a Gram-negative facultative anaerobe that has primarily been isolated from avians and reptiles. We report here the complete and annotated genome sequence of an isolate from a monitor lizard (Varanus sp.), which contains a chromosome of 3,811,650 bp and no plasmids.

background and objectives : economic constraint of diseases arising from salmonella typhimurium causes the study of this zoonotic organism more important. most studies on identification and characterization of s. typhimurium are conducted at dna level. flagellin genes (flic and fljb genes encoding phase-1 and phase-2 flagella, respectively) are useful as a model system for studying genetic diff...