Tag: "cryptic" at biology news

First Biodiversity Census of coral reef ecosystems in the NW Hawaiian Islands

...dition is unique in focusing primarily on the more cryptic small invertebrates (tiny crabs, mollusks, sea slugs, worms and more), algae, and microbes over a range of habitats at French Frigate Shoals. Although some of these smaller organisms may not be as charismatic as monk seals, or colorful aquarium fish...

Speeding the search for elusive chromosomal errors

...ly have tools to identify heretofore undetectable, cryptic rearrangements and to be able to provide a diagnosis for the patients and their families," said Dr. Zackai. ...

Researchers add crucial information on how the body's T cells react to parasitic diseases

...'s ability to fight disease, has remained somewhat cryptic because of the daunting complexity of the processes. There are actually several kinds of T cells, and the ones Tarleton and his colleagues studied are the cytotoxic T cell, which scientists call CD8+. What they discovered is that the T cell respons...

Same-sex mating by fungi spawned infection outbreak, evidence suggests

...id. "Other human pathogens or parasites may harbor cryptic same-sex cycles that contribute to produce progeny with altered virulence, geographic or host range or other advantageous characteristics." Collaborators on the study include Steven Giles, Emily Wenink, Scarlett Geunes-Boyer, Jo Rae Wright, Stephani...

IMF Launches World’s First DNA Database for Myeloma Patients

...ing sexual selection, such as sperm competition or cryptic female choice. That is, most evolutionists have believed that for animals with internal fertilization -- like the livebearing fish Langerhans studies which don't lay eggs-- selection acting within the female's body that biases fertilization toward ma...

Certain fish have a special mating preference

...ing sexual selection, such as sperm competition or cryptic female choice. That is, most evolutionists have believed that for animals with internal fertilization -- like the livebearing fish Langerhans studies which don't lay eggs-- selection acting within the female's body that biases fertilization toward ma...

Navigating an integrated yeast network

...al of Biology shows that such maps can also reveal cryptic interactions and enable accurate predictions about interactions that haven't been observed experimentally. A living cell contains thousands of proteins, genes and macromolecules, enmeshed in complex webs of relationships involving direct or indirect...

Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes

... seems that these hothead-containing plants keep a cryptic copy of everything that was in the previous generation, even though it doesn't show up in the DNA, it's not in the chromosome," Pruitt said. "Some other type of gene sequence information that we don't really understand yet is modifying the inherited ...

Essential mangrove forest threatened by cryptic ecological degradation

...important species. The authors emphasize that such cryptic ecological degradation must be acknowledged by policy and decision makers if mangrove protection is an aim. The research team argues that early detection of such changes should be adopted and is essential for the prevention of further mangrove degrad...

Source of molecular triggers in cutaneous T cell lymphoma identified

... death. As cells undergo the process of apoptosis, cryptic -- or masked -- antigens, are uncovered. Those newly available antigens are presented by LC directly to CTCL receptors, stimulating the malignant cells rapidly divide. "This finding has broad implications for the understanding, diagnosis, and treatm...

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