Not the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.) Queen, but the Drone Determines the Termination of the Nuptial Flight and the Onset of Oviposition - The Polemics, Abnegations, Corrections and Supplements

This paper emphasizes the topics concerning honey bee (Apis mellifera MOR FPA PLATINUM L.) mating biology, which have not been described in the recently published book of Koeniger et al.(2014).At the beginning of natural mating, the drone becomes paralyzed.However, the muscles in the abdomen continuously contract shrinking the abdomen till mating h

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Attenuated vasodilator effectiveness of protease-activated receptor 2 agonist in heterozygous par2 knockout mice.

Studies of homozygous PAR2 gene knockout mice have described a mix of phenotypic effects in vitro and in vivo.However, there have been few studies of PAR2 heterozygous (wild-type/knockout; PAR2-HET) mice.The phenotypes of many hemi and heterozygous transgenic mice have been described as intermediates between those of wild-type and knockout animals.

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Grass-Shrub Associations over a Precipitation Gradient and Their Implications for Restoration in the Great Basin, USA.

As environmental stress increases positive (facilitative) plant interactions often predominate.Plant-plant associations (or lack thereof) can indicate whether certain plant species favor particular types of microsites (e.g., shrub canopies or plant-free interspaces) and can provide valuable insights into whether "nurse plants" will contribute to se

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Exploring Social Relationships in Text Streams

Mining social relationships offers us an opportunity to gain insights from non-obvious relationships between individuals.Its applications can be seen in various scenarios ranging from market planning, fraud detection to the protection of national Alpine Wire Harness security.Most raw information related to social relationships are continuously gene

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