Parasitic worms and molecules derived from them have powerful anti-inflammatory properties and are shown to have therapeutic effects on inflammatory diseases. The helminth Fasciola hepatica has been reported to suppress ...

Image registration describes the process of manipulating a distorted version of an image such that its pixels overlay the equivalent pixels in a clean, master or reference image. The need for it has assumed particular ...

Copper is commonly used as a fodder amendment in cattle nutrition, but little is known about the relation between dung turnover and environmental fate of Cu. We devised a Cu budget for a common British grassland soil (Typic ...

The temporal dynamics of daily food consumption were examined in individually housed fish that experienced four cycles of 1 week of feed deprivation followed by 2 weeks of feeding to satiation. Four species were compared: ...

Background: The hydrogenosomes of the anaerobic ciliate Nyctotherus ovalis show how mitochondria can evolve into hydrogenosomes because they possess a mitochondrial genome and parts of an electron-transport chain on the ...

This study evaluated the effects of two commonly used microbial inoculants (Lactobacillus buchneri (LB) and Lactobacillus plantarum (LP)), formic acid (FA) and quebracho tannins (QT) on the fermentation quality, aerobic ...

Plant growth and development are controlled by a delicate balance of hormonal cues. Growth-promoting hormones and growth-inhibiting counterparts often antagonize each other in their action, but the molecular mechanisms ...