HISTORICAL ECOLOGY MEETS CONSERVATION AND EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS: A SECONDARY CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN CARABUS VIOLACEUS (COLEOPTERA, CARABIDAE) POPULATIONS INHABITING ANCIENT AND RECENT WOODLANDS IN NORTH-WESTERN GERMANY

Historical ecology meets conservation and evolutionary genetics: a secondary contact zone between Carabus violaceus (Coleoptera, Carabidae) populations inhabiting ancient and recent woodlands in north-western Germany

Only very few cases have beanie documented that an increase in connectivity after a period of fragmentation in ecological time has had an effect on the distribution, genetic structure and morphology of stenotopic species.In this study we present an example of clinal variability in a woodland ground beetle as a result of changes in the connectivity

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DARS-AS1 accelerates the proliferation of cervical cancer cells via miR-628-5p/JAG1 axis to activate Notch pathway

Abstract Background Growing evidence has indicated the vital parts of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in modulating the progression of assorted human cancers, including cervical cancer (CC).Nevertheless, the role and mechanism of aspartyl-tRNA synthetase antisense RNA 1 (DARS-AS1) have been not comprehensively illustrated Dining Tables in CC yet.Met

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Freezing suppression by oxytocin in central amygdala allows alternate defensive behaviours and mother-pup interactions

When animals and their offspring are threatened, parents switch from self-defense to offspring protection.How self-defense is suppressed remains elusive.We postulated that suppression of the self-defense response, freezing, is gated via oxytocin acting in the centro-lateral amygdala (CeL).We found that rat dams conditioned to fear an odor, froze wh

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