WHY SELF-FERTILIZING PLANTS STILL EXIST IN WILD POPULATIONS: DIVERSITY ASSURANCE THROUGH STRESS-INDUCED MALE STERILITY MAY PROMOTE SELECTIVE OUTCROSSING AND RECOMBINATION

Why Self-fertilizing Plants Still Exist in Wild Populations: Diversity Assurance through Stress-Induced Male Sterility May Promote Selective Outcrossing and Recombination

Climate change creates challenges for wild species, but plants have survived and adapted to similar changes in their evolutionary past.Most plants were originally outcrossing, one theoretical genetic reason being that self-fertilization does not create novel recombinants that allow adaptation.Thus selfing seems an evolutionary “dead end”

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Diversity of infectious aetiologies of acute undifferentiated febrile illnesses in south and Southeast Asia: a systematic review

Abstract Background Acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) is caused by a multitude of diverse pathogens, with significant morbidity and mortality in the developing world.The objective of this review was to characterise the diversity and relative importance of common infectious aetiologies of AUFI in South and Southeast Asia.Methods We condu

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Bioaccumulation and biochemical responses in the peppery furrow shell Scrobicularia plana exposed to a pharmaceutical cocktail at sub-lethal concentrations

Pharmaceutical drugs in the aquatic medium may pose significant risk to non-target organisms.In this study, the potential toxicity of a mixture of three compounds commonly detected in marine waters (ibuprofen, ciprofloxacin and flumequine) was assessed, by studying bioaccumulation, turbo air m3f24-1 oxidative stress and neurotoxicity parameters (ca

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