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From:Journal of Family Practice (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHannah's Heirs is proof that realitye can be more exciting than fiction. The author takes the reader to the realities behind the curtain of today's sacred savoir, medical research. Alzheimer's disease is the fourth...
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From:The Sciences (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLegacy of Sorrow How Alzheimer's disease became a family affair A MEMORY OF WHO YOU ARE, WHERE you came from and where your are headed is recorded in tight little coils of DNA that reside in every cell of your...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 308, Issue 6937) Peer-ReviewedDuring a six week period in the autumn of 1992, three research groups independently published their discovery of the link between the abnormal gene for familial Alzheimer's disease and the long arm of chromosome 14....
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From:BioScience (Vol. 57, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedAlthough most people think of pollen merely as an allergen, its true biological function is to facilitate sexual reproduction in flowering plants. The angiosperm pollen grain, upon arriving at a receptive stigma,...
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From:Evolution (Vol. 50, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTwo hybridizing species of Louisiana iris, namely, Iris fulva and Iris hexagona, were examined based on their postpollination, prefertilization isolating mechanisms. The examination was done to analyze the processes that...
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From:Evolution (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThree- and four-apertured pollen grains were studied for germination and tube growth rates in Viola diversifolia, an alpine plant which grows at elevations of 2,500-3,000 m. Studies were carried out from 1988-1990 on...
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From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 238) Peer-ReviewedBeehive products have been used since ancient times as dietary supplements because of their perceived health-promoting effects in the human body. In modern times, this perception -- that beehive products promote health...
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From:Evolution (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe influence of specific environmental stresses on the outcome of copper tolerance selection occurring within the pistil of a microgametophyte is discussed. Plants cloned and grown in controlled or copper supplemented...
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From:Evolution (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe spatial arrangement of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA and paternally inherited chloroplast DNA polymorphisms in a permanently marked stand of ponderosa pine was studied. Maternally inherited mtDNA moved only...
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From:Nature (Vol. 554, Issue 7690) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jeremiah Marsicek (corresponding author) [1]; Bryan N. Shuman [1]; Patrick J. Bartlein [2]; Sarah L. Shafer [3]; Simon Brewer [4] Cooling during most of the past two millennia has been widely recognized...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Ginkgo biloba is one of ancient trees that exists from billions of years ago, its leaf and nut are used as herbs and foods in China, while so far its pollen does not have any application except pollination. In order...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedDevelopment of anthers and pollen represents an important aspect of the life cycle in flowering plants. Genes contributing to anther and pollen development have been widely studied in many plant species. Ms26/CYP704B...
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From:Science (Vol. 226) Peer-ReviewedPollen Feeding in an Orb-Weaving Spider Orb-weaving spiders take down and eat their old webs at fairly regular intervals --a well-documented behavior (1) that is usually explained as a mechanism for recovering some of...
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From:eLife (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedThe pollen tube in a flowering plant grows in a direction that is influenced by the mechanical properties of the stigma papillae and the organization of structures called cortical microtubules inside these cells....
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 125, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Globally, pollen allergy is a major public health problem, but a fundamental unknown is the likely impact of climate change. To our knowledge, this is the first study to quantify the consequences of climate...
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From:Science (Vol. 228) Peer-ReviewedDarwin's (1) gloomy description of the environment and aboriginal life-style in the southernmost part of South America provided a background for the much publicized find in 1895 of the nearly complete skin of a giant...
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From:The Texas Journal of Science (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJohn Jones (*) Vaughn Bryant (*) Abstract.--The analysis of fossil pollen, spores and charcoal from 1.15 m of sediments deposited over a period of more than 1,000 years at Aronow Bog in northern Harris County,...
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From:Ecology (Vol. 78, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPathogens affect the evolution of their hosts only to the extent that the host's ability to reproduce is altered. Microbotryum violaceum is a pollinator-transmitted fungal pathogen that causes infected individuals to...
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From:Crop Science (Vol. 42, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe objective of this study was to develop a simple, rapid and accurate technique to quantify maize (Zea mays L.) pollen shed under field conditions, capitalizing on the capacity of pollen to fluoresce and recent...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 85, Issue 328) Peer-ReviewedThe demise of the Iceman is archaeology's current long-running detective story, in which the time and mode of death have yet to be agreed. Recent discussion in these pages favoured a ceremonial burial on the mountain,...