The impact of climate change and other environmental changes on population health poses radical challenges to scientists. A fundamental characteristic of this topic is the pervasive combination of complexity and uncertainty. ...

A Marine Climate Impacts Workshop was held from 29 April to 3 May 2012 at the US National Center of Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara. This workshop was the culmination of a series of six meetings over the ...

Temperate Australia is a global hotspot for marine biodiversity and its waters have experienced well-above global average rates of ocean warming. We review the observed impacts of climate change (e.g. warming, ocean ...

The invertases of Lolium temulentum have been characterized at the enzyme level. However, studies on the expression of the genes coding for these enzymes have been lacking. To elucidate the role of acid ‘invertase-like’ ...

The gene encoding the enzyme lupanine hydroxylase was isolated by PCR using chromosomal DNA from a lupanine-utilizing Pseudomonas sp. as template and primers based on the sequences of the N- and C-termini of the purified ...

In contrast to gram-negative bacteria, little is known about the mechanisms by which gram-positive bacteria degrade the toxic metabolic intermediate methylglyoxal (MG). Clostridium beijerinckii BR54, a Tn1545 insertion ...

Marine tourism has become one of the fastest growing areas within the tourism industry. With the increased use of marine environments comes the need for informed planning and sustainable management as well as for the ...

The microtubule cytoskeleton plays a crucial role in the cell cycle and in mitosis. Colchicine is a microtubule-depolymerizing agent that has long been used to induce chromosome individualization in cells arrested at ...

The color changes that occur during foliar senescence are directly related to the regulation of nutrient mobilization and resorption from leaf cells, often under conditions of biotic and abiotic stress. Chlorophyll is ...