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Atelopus laetissimus is an endemic and threatened harlequin frog from the high mountain forests of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Knowledge of its reproductive biology is essential for understanding the intraspecific interactions that can help the conservation of Atelopus species. We quantified the energy, measured in body weight, invested by males and females of A. laetissimus for reproduction, and how this energetic investment is related to the survival of individuals and rainfall conditions in habitats during two years (2014 and 2015). Our results show plasticity in terms of reproductive phenology linked to rainfall with short- and long-duration breeding strategies. The first year of this study, 2014, had a precipitation level in accordance with the annual averages at the area. During this time frogs exhibit a short breeding period. Contrary to 2014, 2015 was a year with little precipitation, below the annual averages, which probably facilitated the females’ quick spawning in the creeks and a consequent reduction in the duration of amplexus and low breeding efforts by males. This, in turn, was related to a long breeding period that favors the survival and reproduction of males during the entire year. In 2014 we found a decrease of 25% to 30% body weight of potentially reproductive males, which may be attributed to a prolonged duration of amplectant events. 相似文献
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Luiz A. Rocha Joseph D. DiBattista Tane H. Sinclair-Taylor Michael L. Berumen 《Journal of Natural History》2020,54(15-16):1019-1023
ABSTRACT Here we document three cases of mimicry in coral reef fishes not previously reported in the literature involving two groupers (Epinephelus leucogrammicus and Plectropomus marisrubri) and a soapfish (Diploprion drachi) as mimics, and two wrasses (Larabicus quadrilineatus and Cheilinus quinquecinctus) and a blenny (Meiacanthus nigrolineatus) as models. All three cases are of aggressive mimicry, with a predatory species mimicking a harmless one, and in one of the cases, the mimicry is also Müllerian, where both the predator and harmless species are unpalatable. 相似文献
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Is there a decline in marine phytoplankton? 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
McQuatters-Gollop A Reid PC Edwards M Burkill PH Castellani C Batten S Gieskes W Beare D Bidigare RR Head E Johnson R Kahru M Koslow JA Pena A 《Nature》2011,472(7342):E6-7; discussion E8-9
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Metabolic priming by a secreted fungal effector 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Djamei A Schipper K Rabe F Ghosh A Vincon V Kahnt J Osorio S Tohge T Fernie AR Feussner I Feussner K Meinicke P Stierhof YD Schwarz H Macek B Mann M Kahmann R 《Nature》2011,478(7369):395-398
Maize smut caused by the fungus Ustilago maydis is a widespread disease characterized by the development of large plant tumours. U. maydis is a biotrophic pathogen that requires living plant tissue for its development and establishes an intimate interaction zone between fungal hyphae and the plant plasma membrane. U. maydis actively suppresses plant defence responses by secreted protein effectors. Its effector repertoire comprises at least 386 genes mostly encoding proteins of unknown function and expressed exclusively during the biotrophic stage. The U. maydis secretome also contains about 150 proteins with probable roles in fungal nutrition, fungal cell wall modification and host penetration as well as proteins unlikely to act in the fungal-host interface like a chorismate mutase. Chorismate mutases are key enzymes of the shikimate pathway and catalyse the conversion of chorismate to prephenate, the precursor for tyrosine and phenylalanine synthesis. Root-knot nematodes inject a secreted chorismate mutase into plant cells likely to affect development. Here we show that the chorismate mutase Cmu1 secreted by U. maydis is a virulence factor. The enzyme is taken up by plant cells, can spread to neighbouring cells and changes the metabolic status of these cells through metabolic priming. Secreted chorismate mutases are found in many plant-associated microbes and might serve as general tools for host manipulation. 相似文献
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Davila S Furu L Gharavi AG Tian X Onoe T Qian Q Li A Cai Y Kamath PS King BF Azurmendi PJ Tahvanainen P Kääriäinen H Höckerstedt K Devuyst O Pirson Y Martin RS Lifton RP Tahvanainen E Torres VE Somlo S 《Nature genetics》2004,36(6):575-577
Mutations in PRKCSH, encoding the beta-subunit of glucosidase II, an N-linked glycan-processing enzyme in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), cause autosomal dominant polycystic liver disease. We found that mutations in SEC63, encoding a component of the protein translocation machinery in the ER, also cause this disease. These findings are suggestive of a role for cotranslational protein-processing pathways in maintaining epithelial luminal structure and implicate noncilial ER proteins in human polycystic disease. 相似文献
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Zusammenfassung Die proteolytische Aktivität des Giftes vonBothrops jararaca wird durch Erhitzen leicht zerstört und dabei eine Esterase mit grösserer Hitzeresistenz abgetrennt. Nach Hitzefraktionierung des Giftes steht die Aktivität dieser Esterase in direktem Verhältnis zum abgegebenen Bradykinin und zur Gerinnung des frischen Plasmas. 相似文献
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Batourina E Tsai S Lambert S Sprenkle P Viana R Dutta S Hensle T Wang F Niederreither K McMahon AP Carroll TJ Mendelsohn CL 《Nature genetics》2005,37(10):1082-1089
Removal of toxic substances from the blood depends on patent connections between the kidney, ureters and bladder that are established when the ureter is transposed from its original insertion site in the male genital tract to the bladder. This transposition is thought to occur as the trigone forms from the common nephric duct and incorporates into the bladder. Here we re-examine this model in the context of normal and abnormal development. We show that the common nephric duct does not differentiate into the trigone but instead undergoes apoptosis, a crucial step for ureter transposition controlled by vitamin A-induced signals from the primitive bladder. Ureter abnormalities occur in 1-2% of the human population and can cause obstruction and end-stage renal disease. These studies provide an explanation for ureter defects underlying some forms of obstruction in humans and redefine the current model of ureter maturation. 相似文献