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Coley, Phyllis D. | Growth-defense trade-off and habitat specialization by plants in Amazonian forests | Tropical forests include a diversity of habitats, which has led to specialization in plants. Near Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, nutrient-rich clay forests surround nutrient-poor white-sand forests, each harboring a unique composition of habitat specialist trees. We tested the hypothesis that t... | Amazon; Ecological gradient; Growth-defense trade-off; Habitat specialization; Herbivory; Phenolics; Phylogenetic control; Rainforest; Reciprocal-transplant experiment; Terpenes; Tropical trees | 2006 |
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Carrier, David R. | Functional tradeoffs in specialization for fighting versus running | Both locomotion and fighting are critical to survival and reproductive fitness in many vertebrate species. Yet, characters that make an individual good at fighting may, in many cases, limit locomotor performance and vice versa. Here I describe tests of three functional tradeoffs in the limb muscles ... | Greyhounds; Pit Bulls; Australopithecus; Homo; Fighting; Running; Male-male aggression; Limb muscles; Functional tradeoff | 2002 |
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Adler, Frederick R. | Aggregation and stability in parasite-host models | This paper generalizes the two-dimensional approximation of models of macroparasites on homogeneous populations developed by Anderson & May (1978), focusing on how the dispersion (the variance to mean ratio) of the equilibrium distribution of parasites on hosts is related to the stability of the equ... | Aggregation; Stability; Host-parasite models | 1992-04 |
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Capecchi, Mario R. | Selective degradation of abnormal proteins in mammalian tissue culture cells. | The degradation rates of several missense mutants of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.8) in mouse L cells are compared to those of the wild-type enzyme. Although the rates of total protein breakdown in the mutant cell lines are identical to that of the parental L cell line, ... | Gene Expression Regulation; Mice, Transgenic; Microscopy, Fluorescence | 1974-12-01 |
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Adler, Frederick R. | Information collection and spread by networks of patrolling ants | To study how a social group, such as an ant colony, monitors events occurring throughout its territory, we present a model of a network of patrolling ants engaged in information collection and dissemination. In this network, individuals follow independent paths through a region and can exchange sign... | Patrolling network; ant colony; information-gathering | 1992 |
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Ehleringer, James R. | Plant adaptation in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau | Adaptive features of plants of the Great Basin are reviewed. The combination of cold winters and an arid to semiarid precipitation regime results in the distinguishing features of the vegetation in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. The primary effects of these climatic features arise from how t... | Plant adaptation; Great Basin; Colorado Plateau; Cold deserts | 1992 |
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