The ability to acquire chemical defenses through the diet has evolved across several major taxa.Chemically defended organisms may need to balance chemical defense acquisition and nutritional quality of prey items.However, these dietary preferences and potential trade-offs are rarely considered in the framework of diet-derived defenses.Poison frogs
Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration (PKAN) is a neurodegenerative disorder with a poorly understood molecular mechanism.It is caused by mutations in Pantothenate Kinase, the first enzyme in the Coenzyme A (CoA) biosynthetic pathway.Here, we developed a Drosophila model of PKAN (tim-fbl flies) that allows us to continuously monitor the
The formation of the contract system in the Russian Federation aimed mostly at significant improval of the efficiency and effectiveness of budget allocations for government contract payments brought into limelight the importance of the state needs, their place and role in the system of economic relations.The relevance of the topic is determined, fi
Many existing reinforced concrete (RC) structures constructed more than 50 years ago now require maintenance.This is especially true in cold, snowy regions where significant frost damage deterioration of RC structures becomes a severe problem.In Toys this study, falling-weight impact tests were performed to investigate the impact resistance behavio