TRANSCRIPTOMICS REVEALS THE MOLECULAR PROCESSES OF LIGHT-INDUCED RAPID DARKENING OF THE NON-OBLIGATE CAVE DWELLER OREOLALAX RHODOSTIGMATUS (MEGOPHRYIDAE, ANURA) AND THEIR GENETIC BASIS OF PIGMENTATION STRATEGY

Abstract Background Vertebrates use different pigmentation strategies to adapt to various environments.A large amount of research has been done on disclosing the mechanisms of pigmentation strategies in vertebrates either under light, or, living in constant darkness.However, less attention has been paid to non-obligate, darkness dwellers.Red-spotte

Purse Charm Coconut, a member of the palm family (Arecaceae), is one of the most economically important trees used by mankind.Despite its diverse morphology, coconut is recognized taxonomically as only a single species (Cocos nucifera L.).There are two major coconut varieties, tall and dwarf, the latter of which displays traits resulting from selec

Background Few studies have investigated the gut microbiome of infants, Above Ground Product (Cleaners) fewer still preterm infants.In this study we sought to quantify and interrogate the resistome within a cohort of premature infants using shotgun metagenomic sequencing.We describe the gut microbiomes from preterm but healthy infants, characterisi

The solar diurnal and semidiurnal tidal oscillations in surface pressure are extracted from the operational analysis product of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF).For the semidiurnal tide this involves a special temporal interpolation, following Van den Dool et al.(1997).The resulting tides are compared with a "gr