Female mosquitoes are major vectors of human disease and the most dangerous are those
that preferentially bite humans. A ‘domestic’ form of the mosquito Aedes aegypti has evolved …

The liver has an intrinsic capacity to regenerate in response to injury or surgical resection.
Nevertheless, circumstances in which hepatocytes are unresponsive to proliferative signals …

The tight junction protein claudin-3 has been identified as a transcriptional target of the Wnt/β-catenin
signaling pathway regulating blood-brain barrier (BBB) maturation. In neurological …

The adult heart is able to activate cardioprotective programmes and modifies its architecture
in response to physiological or pathological changes. While mammalian cardiac …

Beitrage zur Naturkunde) series has been equipping amateur as Thc Amphibians well
professional herpetologists and Reptiles ofcypms with fine field guides for nearly, 3 I two decades. …

Water frogs inhabiting Cyprus represent a distinct evolutionary species of Messinian origin
that is formally described in this paper. The systematic status of Cypriot frogs is evidenced by …

We investigate the oxidation of TiZrNbHfTa high entropy alloy between 550 C and 650 C as
a surface hardening method. Coarse-grained specimens with grain boundaries …

The iron (II) spin crossover complex Fe (1, 10-phenanthroline) 2 (NCS) 2, dubbed Fe-phen,
has been studied with scanning tunneling microscopy, after adsorption on the'herringbone'…

Sex chromosomes are classically predicted to stop recombining in the heterogametic sex,
thereby enforcing linkage between sex-determining (SD) and sex-antagonistic (SA) genes. …

Animals on islands often exhibit dramatic differences in morphology and behaviour
compared with mainland individuals, a phenomenon known as the ‘island syndrome’. These …