| |
The Rhesus Monkey discusses the use of the rhesus monkey as a test subject in biomedical research. This text provides information that is essential for research that involves the rhesus monkey, from conditioning a wild rhesus monkey to restoring it to its natural state...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-07-23
PDF sans DRM
|
Chemical Zoology, Volume VI, Arthropoda Part B, provides zoologists and chemists with an overview of the state of knowledge in chemistry and zoology and an introduction to the existing literature. The treatise is arranged by phyla, an arrangement which seemed most...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-07-23
PDF sans DRM
|
|
|
In eukaryotes, lipid metabolism requires the function of peroxisomes. These multitasking organelles are also part of species-specific pathways such as the glyoxylate cycle in yeast and plants or the synthesis of ether lipid in mammals. Proteins required for the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-23
ePub
|
Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural science and technology covering both basic and applied research. Topics covered include the horticulture of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamentals. These review articles, written...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-07-22
Collection :
Horticultural Reviews
PDF, ePub
|
Over the past decades, chromatin remodelling has emerged as an important regulator of gene expression and plant defense. This book provides a detailed understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms involved in plants of agronomic importance. The information presented here...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-22
ePub
|
The book presents an integrative review of paleoneurology, the study of endocranial morphology in fossil species.The main focus is on showing how computed methods can be used to support advances in evolutionary neuroanatomy, paleoanthropology and archaeology and how...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-21
Collection :
Springer Series in Bio-/Neuroinformatics
ePub
|
Microbial physiology, biochemistry and genetics allowed the formulation of concepts that turned out to be important in the study of higher organisms. In the first section, the principles of bacterial growth are given, as well as the description of the different layers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-21
ePub
|
Large and intense wildfires are integral to the globally important boreal forest biome. While much is known about boreal wildfires, the focus on forest remnants that either escape or survive these intense fires is a recent phenomenon: academics now study ecological...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-07-21
PDF, ePub
|
Two groups of animals, bats and odontocetes (toothed whales), have independently developed the ability to orient and detect prey by biosonar (echolocation). This active mechanism of orientation allows these animals to operate under low light conditions. Biosonar is a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-19
ePub
|
Cannabinoids ‘Cannabinoids’ is a broad term covering a group of natural products from Cannabis sativa, one of which locks on to specific receptors – protein molecules on the surface of cells – known as cannabinoid receptors. Over the past decades scientists have found...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-07-18
PDF, ePub
|
Although the origin and the basic meaning of the terms "planar lipid bilayers" and "liposome" have not changed during the years, the present advances in the scientific, technological, biomedical and consumer product fields are remarkable. Ever since its launch the...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-07-18
PDF, epub sans DRM
|
Fermentation, as a chemical and biological process, is everywhere. Countless societies throughout history have used it to form a vast array of foods and drinks, many of which were integral and essential to those cultures; it could be argued that the production of beer...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-17
PDF
|
This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-17
ePub
|
This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence.
Migration, broadly defined as directional...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-07-17
ePub
|
This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence.
Migration, broadly defined as directional...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-07-17
PDF
Offre spéciale
-23%
59,67€
|
A common approach to understanding the functional repertoire of a genome is through functional genomics. With systems biology burgeoning, bioinformatics has grown to a larger extent for plant genomes where several applications in the form of protein-protein interactions...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-14
ePub
|
This book focuses on the mechanistic (microscopic) understanding of radionuclide uptake by plants in contaminated soils and potential use of phytoremediation. The key features concern radionuclide toxicity in plants, how the radioactive materials are absorbed by plants,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-14
ePub
|
In recent years, the aim of research on aging has shifted from prolonging life to fostering healthy and cognitively robust old age. In order to improve the quality of life of older people, we need to better understand cognitive aging as well as bodily aging. Health and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-14
Collection :
International Perspectives on Aging
ePub
|
Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography, Third Edition is a practical reference to established and modern data analysis techniques in earth and ocean sciences. Its five major sections address data acquisition and recording, data processing and presentation,...
Editeur :
Elsevier Science
Parution :
2014-07-14
PDF, epub sans DRM
|