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    Impaired host odor perception in hybrids between the sibling species Rhagoletis pomonella and R. mendax (1996)
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    Entomologia experimentalis et applicata 80 (1996), S. 163-165 
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    ISSN: 1570-7458
    Keywords: olfaction ; EAG ; sensory physiology ; antennal sensitivity ; interspecies hybrids ; evolution
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00194749
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    Chemosensory basis of feeding and oviposition behaviour in herbivorous insects: a glance at the periphery (1996)
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    Entomologia experimentalis et applicata 80 (1996), S. 7-13 
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    ISSN: 1570-7458
    Keywords: host-plant selection ; sensory physiology ; neural coding ; deterrents ; peripheral interactions ; receptor sites ; genetics of insects ; evolution
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Recent advances in our understanding of the relationship between chemosensory and behavioural responses to phytochemicals come from a number of studies on ovipositional and food selection behaviour of flies, butterflies, moths and beetles. Establishing input-output relationships has provided insight into the way in which the activity of chemoreceptors is translated into host-plant selection behaviour. This was achieved for both the qualitative contrast acceptance/rejection and for quantifiable preference hierarchies. By now it is clear that the subtlety of coding the complex phytochemical profiles offered by potential host plants relies on across-fibre patterns or ensemblefiring of taste neurons. Progress along these lines depends on unravelling processing pathways in the central nervous system, still a largely unexplored area in herbivorous insects. Increased interest can be noted for the mechanisms operating during the most peripheral events of chemoreception: the interaction of phytochemical and chemoreceptor, determining the specificity of recognition. Evidence for ‘peripheral integration’ has accumulated. Deterrent receptors have an especially puzzling nature. Although such cells respond to a wide array of structurally diverse secondary plant metabolites, their sensitivity profile differs between closely related species. To what extent membrane-bound receptor molecules are involved and what degree of specificity is conferred by these, is largely unknown. Sensitivity to a certain group or class of compounds is determined by single genes in several cases. This allows for a scenario in which single gene mutations affect stimulus-receptor interactions, which might concurrently affect host-plant selection behaviour.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00194713
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    Insect-plant relations: overview from the symposium (1996)
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    Entomologia experimentalis et applicata 80 (1996), S. 320-324 
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    ISSN: 1570-7458
    Keywords: multitrophic interactions ; phylogeny ; evolution ; fitness
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    Topics: Biology
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00194783
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    Butterflies and ants: The communicative domain (1996)
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    Cellular and molecular life sciences 52 (1996), S. 14-24 
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    ISSN: 1420-9071
    Keywords: Lycaenidae ; Formicidae ; symbiosis ; mutualism ; parasitism ; communication ; ecology ; evolution
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Associations with ants, termed myrmecophily, are widespread in the butterfly family Lycaenidae and range from mere co-existence to more or less specific mutualistic or even parasitic interactions. Secretions of specialized epidermal glands are crucial for mediating the interactions. Transfer of nutrients (carbohydrates, amino acids) from butterfly larvae to ants plays a major role, but manipulative communication with the help of odour signals is also involved. By means of myrmecophily, lycaenid butterflies largely escape ant predation, and certain species gain protection through attendant ants or achieve developmental benefits from ant-attendance. Benefits to the ants range from minimal to substantial food rewards. While most lycaenid species maintain facultative relationships with a variety of ant genera, highly specific and obligatory associations have convergently evolved in a number of butterfly lineages. As a corollary, communication systems are largely unspecific in the former, but may be highly specialized in the latter. The sophisticated communication between obligate myrmecophiles and their host ants is tightly connected with the evolutionary rise of specialized life-cycles and thus is a source of augmenting diversity within the butterflies.
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    The accessory gland proteins in maleDrosophila: structural, reproductive, and evolutionary aspects (1996)
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    Cellular and molecular life sciences 52 (1996), S. 503-510 
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    ISSN: 1420-9071
    Keywords: Drosophila ; accessory gland ; reproduction ; sexual behavior ; sperm displacement ; evolution
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Recent results from biochemical and molecular genetic studies of the accessory gland proteins in maleDrosophila are reviewed. The most prominent feature is the species-specific variability. However, the analysis of the sex peptide inD. melanogaster shows that there is a strong homology in the molecular structure to the closely related sibling species, and that divergence increases with increasing phylogenetic distance. For this reason the sex peptide, after being transferred to the female genital tract during copulation, reduces receptivity and increases oviposition only in virgin females belonging to the same species group and subgroup. Even though studies were hitherto limited to a small number of the secretory components, it is evident that the accessory gland proteins play a key role in reproductive success of the fruit fly by changing female sexual behavior, supporting sperm transfer, storage and displacement. Thus, genes encoding the accessory gland proteins are apparently under strong evolutionary selection.
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    Dominance hierarchies and the evolution of human reasoning (1996)
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    Minds and machines 6 (1996), S. 463-480 
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    ISSN: 1572-8641
    Keywords: Human reasoning ; evolution ; deontic reasoning ; transitive reasoning ; non-human primates ; neocortical ratio ; dominance hierarchy
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    Topics: Computer Science , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract Research from ethology and evolutionary biology indicates the following about the evolution of reasoning capacity. First, solving problems of social competition and cooperation have direct impact on survival rates and reproductive success. Second, the social structure that evolved from this pressure is the dominance hierarchy. Third, primates that live in large groups with complex dominance hierarchies also show greater neocortical development, and concomitantly greater cognitive capacity. These facts suggest that the necessity of reasoning effectively about dominance hierarchies left an indelible mark on primate reasoning architectures, including that of humans. In order to survive in a dominance hierarchy, an individual must be capable of (a) making rank discriminations, (b) recognizing what is forbidden and what is permitted based one's rank, and (c) deciding whether to engage in or refriin from activities that will allow one to move up in rank. The first problem is closely tied to the capacity for transitive reasoning, while the second and third are intimately related to the capacity for deontic reasoning. I argue that the human capacity for these types of reasoning have evolutionary roots that reach deeper into our ancestral past than the emergence of the hominid line, and the operation of these evolutionarily primitive reasoning systems can be seen in the development of human reasoning and domain-specific effects in adult reasoning.
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    Integrating neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology through a teleological conception of function (1996)
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    Minds and machines 6 (1996), S. 481-505 
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    ISSN: 1572-8641
    Keywords: Neuroscience ; evolutionary psychology ; interfield theory ; evolution ; teleology ; function ; functionalism ; brain mapping ; language processing
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    Topics: Computer Science , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract The idea of integrating evolutionary biology and psychology has great promise, but one that will be compromised if psychological functions are conceived too abstractly and neuroscience is not allowed to play a contructive role. We argue that the proper integration of neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology requires a telelogical as opposed to a merely componential analysis of function. A teleological analysis is required in neuroscience itself; we point to traditional and curent research methods in neuroscience, which make critical use of distinctly teleological functional considerations in brain cartography. Only by invoking teleological criteria can researchers distinguish the fruitful ways of identifying brain components from the myriad of possible ways. One likely reason for reluctance to turn to neuroscience is fear of reduction, but we argue that, in the context of a teleological perspective on function, this concern is misplaced. Adducing such theoretical considerations as top-down and bottom-up constraints on neuroscientific and psychological models, as well as existing cases of productive, multidisciplinary cooperation, we argue that integration of neuroscience into psychology and evolutionary biology is likely to be mutually beneficial. We also show how it can be accommodated methodologically within the framework of an interfield theory.
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    Conventions and institutions in coordination problems (1996)
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    De economist 144 (1996), S. 397-428 
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    ISSN: 1572-9982
    Keywords: conventions ; institutions ; game theory ; evolution
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    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Summary This survey article starts with a game-theory interpretation of coordination problems that occur in an economy. Three types of games are discussed in which the degree of coordination versus conflict varies. It is shown that game-theoretic techniques for equilibrium selection or securing the highest pay-off outcome do not always suffice, which raises the need for exogenous information. Norms, such as conventions and institutions, may provide this information. The emergence and persistence of norms as well as the relationship between the type of game and the type of norm are discussed. After a discussion on conventions and rationality, some notions from Institutional Economics are introduced, in which institutions are explained as a way to deal with limited and costly information. Some applications are given in the last section.
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    Castes in humivorous and litter-dwelling neotropical nasute termites (Isoptera, Termitidae) (1996)
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    Insectes sociaux 43 (1996), S. 375-389 
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    ISSN: 1420-9098
    Keywords: Nasutitermitinae ; Subulitermes ; Coatitermes ; Velocitermes ; evolution ; phylogeny
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary The developmental pathways of the neuter castes were studied in three species of Nasutitermitinae from central Panama. The humivorousSubulitermes denisae andCoatitermes clevelandi display several primitive traits: absence of sex dimorphism, representation of both sexes among workers and soldiers, and occurrence of successive worker instars. The litter-dwellingVelocitermes barrocoloradensis has a more complex caste system: female larvae are larger than males and give rise to the large workers, which constitute the bulk of the work force; male larvae proceed to soldiers through a small worker or a special larval instar. The resulting soldier caste is polymorphic. These results support previously formulated hypotheses regarding a link between humivorous diet and reduced polymorphism on the one hand, and between forest-floor foraging and large continuous size variation among soldiers on the other. Whereas the caste systems ofSubulitermes andCoatitermes probably represent a primitive condition,Velocitermes shares derived traits withNasutitermes and the other fully nasute genera previously studied. I therefore hypothesize that ancestors with these advanced features may have spread from the neotropics and be at the origin of most nasute genera, including humivorous taxa, present in other regions.
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    Sequence comparisons of the internal transcribed spacer region of ribosomal genes support close relationships between parasitic ants and their respective host species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (1996)
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    Insectes sociaux 43 (1996), S. 53-67 
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    ISSN: 1420-9098
    Keywords: Formicidae ; Leptothoracini ; Tetramoriini ; internal transcribed spacer ; social parasitism ; evolution ; phylogenetics
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary A fragment of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS-1) adjacent to the 5.8S rRNA gene of 20 myrmicine ant species was sequenced. Sequence comparisons were carried out between 11 species of the tribe Leptothoracini, five species of the tribe Tetramoriini, three species of the tribe Solenopsidini and one species of the tribe Myrmicini. Additionally, the formicine antCamponotus ligniperda (tribe Camponotini) was analyzed as an outgroup species. Among all investigated species, the fragment had a variable length of ≈ 230–380 bp with only a few conserved sequence elements. The sequences of this fragment were perfectly identical within four palearctic populations ofLeptothorax acervorum indicating that intraspecific variation is rather low. Within the species of Tetramoriini (includingAnergates atratulus) 94.1% of sequence positions were identical, 95.6% within the species of theLeptothorax s.str.-group and 64.6% within the species of theMyrafant-group. Phylogenetic analysis reveals that the social parasitesHarpagoxenus sublaevis, Doronomyrmex goesswaldi, D. kutteri andD. pacis, Chalepoxenus muellerianus as well asStrongylognathus alpinus andTeleutomyrmex schneideri are most closely related to the groups of their respective host species, which generally confirms the taxonomical classifications of the subfamily Myrmicinae based on morphological criteria. The taxonomical positions of the speciesA. atratulus has as yet been uncertain, however, sequence comparison of the ITS-1 fragment leads to the conclusion thatA. atratulus rather belongs to the tribe Tetramoriini than to the Solenopsidini.
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    Sex pheromones and attractants in the Eucosmini and Grapholitini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) (1996)
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    Chemoecology 7 (1996), S. 13-23 
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    ISSN: 1423-0445
    Keywords: sex pheromone ; synergist ; antagonist ; mate recognition ; reproductive isolation ; chemotaxonomoy ; phylogeny ; evolution ; Lepidoptera ; Tortricidae
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary The geometric isomers (E,E)-, (E,Z)-, (Z,E)-, and (Z,Z)-8,10-dodecadien-1-yl acetate were identified as sex pheromone components or sex attractants in the tribes Eucosmini and Grapholitini of the tortricid subfamily Olethreutinae. Species belonging to the more ancestral Tortricinae were not attracted. Each one isomer was behaviourally active in males ofCydia andGrapholita (Grapholitini), either as main pheromone compound, attraction synergist or attraction inhibitor. Their reciprocal attractive/antagonistic activity in a number of species enables specific communication with these four compounds.Pammene, as well as otherGrapholita andCydia responded to the monoenic 8- or 10-dodecen-1-yl acetates. Of the tribes Olethreutini and Eucosmini,Hedya, Epiblema, Eucosma, andNotocelia trimaculana were also attracted to 8,10-dodecadien-1-yl acetates, but several otherNotocelia to 10,12-tetradecadien-1-yl acetates. The female sex pheromones ofC. fagiglandana, C. pyrivora, C. splendana, Epiblema foenella andNotocelia roborana were identified. (E,E)- and (E,Z)-8,10-dodecadien-1-yl acetate are producedvia a commonE9 desaturation pathway inC. splendana. CallingC. nigricana andC. fagiglandana females are attracted to wingfanning males.
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    Cubic topology in surfactant and lipid mixtures (1996)
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    European biophysics journal 24 (1996), S. 293-299 
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    ISSN: 1432-1017
    Keywords: Phase transition ; NMR ; DSC ; X-ray diffraction ; Bonnet Transformation
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    Topics: Biology , Physics
    Notes: Abstract Ternary systems of palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) and the non-ionic surfactant C12EO2 (di-ethylene-oxide-mono-dodecyl-ether) in water have been studied with optical microscopy, NMR, DSC and X-rays from ambient temperatures to 45 °C. Below 29 °C the system is in the lamellar liquid crystalline state. Between 30 and 32 °C it transforms into a cubic Ia3d structure which converts into the cubic Pn3m phase at 39 °C. The transitions are fully reversible. An epitaxial relationship between all three phases was found, which is an elegant and convenient way to rearrange molecules from lamellar bilayers to a network of curved surfaces. The la3d (Q230) to Pn3m (Q224) transition occurs without measurable enthalpy change. This, together with the metric relation of 1.60 between the cubic lattice constants is strong evidence for a Bonnet transformation, where the structural changes occur without change in curvature. The potential significance of the cubic phases as intermediate structures for biological processes, e. g. transport across a bilayer or fusion of membranes, are discussed.
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    Impact of water control projects on fisheries resources in Bangladesh (1996)
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    Environmental management 20 (1996), S. 523-539 
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    ISSN: 1432-1009
    Keywords: Water control ; Floodplain ; Fisheries ; Bangladesh ; Chandpur
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
    Notes: Abstract Bangladesh is a very flat delta built up by the Ganges—Brahmaputra—Meghna/Barak river systems. Because of its geographical location, floods cause huge destruction of lives and properties almost every year. Water control programs have been undertaken to enhance development through mitigating the threat of disasters. This structural approach to flood hazard has severely affected floodplain fisheries that supply the major share of protein to rural Bangladesh, as exemplified by the Chandpur Irrigation Project. Although the regulated environment of the Chandpur project has become favorable for closed-water cultured fish farming, the natural open-water fishery loss has been substantial. Results from research show that fish yields were better under preproject conditions. Under project conditions per capita fish consumption has dropped significantly, and the price of fish has risen beyond the means of the poor people, so that fish protein in the diet of poor people is gradually declining. Bangladesh is planning to expand water control facilities to the remaining flood-prone areas in the next 15–20 years. This will cause further loss of floodplain fisheries. If prices for closed-water fish remain beyond the buying power of the poor, alternative sources of cheap protein will be required.
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    The ecology and evolution of bacteriocins (1996)
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    Journal of industrial microbiology and biotechnology 17 (1996), S. 151-158 
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    ISSN: 1476-5535
    Keywords: bacteriocins ; colicins ; evolution ; ecology ; Escherichia coli
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    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Abstract In this review we focus on the ecological and evolutionary forces that determine the frequency and diversity of colicins inEscherichia coli. To begin, we describe that this killing phenotype is ubiquitous inE. coli, with as many as 50% of the isolates from a population producing colicin toxins, and that each population sampled has its own unique distribution of the more than 20 known colicin types. Next, we explore the dynamics of colicinogeny, which exhibits a typical form of frequency dependence, where the likelihood of successful colicin invasion into a population increases as the initial density of colicinogenic cells increases. We then incorporate thoughts on the evolution of chromosomal resistance to colicins and describe how resistance might influence the dynamics of colicinogen invasion and maintenance and the resulting colicin diversity. The final section deals with a genetic and phylogenetic characterization of colicins and a discussion of the evolutionary mechanisms responsible for generating colicin diversity. In this final section we provide details of the different molecular mechanisms known to play a role in generating colicin diversity, including the two most dominant forces in colincin evolution: recombination and positive, deversifying, selection.
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    Polymerization kinetics of acrylic bone cements by differential scanning calorimetry (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 35-49 
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    ISSN: 1572-8943
    Keywords: bone cement ; DSC ; kinetics
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Bone cements are widely used for the fixation of metallic prostheses in orthopaedics and to form replacements for skull defects in neurosurgery. Acrylic bone cements are based on a mixture of methyl methacrylate (MMA) and a fine powder of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). The polymerization of the bone cement occurs in contact with the bone and the prosthesis which act as the boundaries of a bulk polymerization reactor. The kinetic behaviour of the bone cement plays a fundamental role for the final performance of the implant. In this paper, the isothermal and non-isothermal polymerization behaviour of a commercial bone cement is described. A simple phenomenological model, accounting for the autoacceleration ffect, for a diffusion controlled termination mechanism and for the reaction between inhibitor and initiator, is proposed. The reaction kinetics is analysed by DSC. DSC data are used for the determination of the rates of polymerization under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions. The experimental data are processed to calculate the parameters of the proposed phenomenological kinetic model. The analytical and numerical details related to the integration of the model are discussed.
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    Characterizing in situ starch gelatinization (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 181-194 
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    ISSN: 1572-8943
    Keywords: DSC ; gelatinization
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Data obtained by dynamic mechanical analysis and DSC analysis of durum wheat dough are presented and discussed. Doughs with water contents ranging from 45 to 55% (w/w) were subjected to sinusoidal shearing by means of a dynamic mechanical spectrometer (Rheometrics, RFS2) equipped with parallel plate geometry, 0.1 strain amplitude and 1 rad/min frequency. The tests were carried on in temperature sweep mode at a heating rate of 2°C min−1. Wheat samples with water contents in the range between 7.5 and 37.5% and doughs with 37.5% moisture content were mixed for different times and subjected to DSC analysis (Perkin-Elmer, DSC-7) at a heating rate of 20°C min−1. Dynamic mechanical analysis revealed that the relationship between the dynamic properties of the dough and the temperature was modified as the water content of the dough increased and was quite different from that for gluten. A similar response was observed in the course of temperature scans made by means of DSC. These experimental findings suggest that the water-starch interaction in the presence of a protein matrix is affected by the availability of water and that the protein system is a competitor with respect to starch.
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    Erfahrungen mit vier Softwarepaketen für Kinetische Auswertungen in der Thermischen Analyse (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 543-557 
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    ISSN: 1572-8943
    Keywords: compensation effect ; DSC ; kinetics ; TG
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Four computer programs as well as one demo-version for non-linear evaluation of kinetic data in thermal analysis and calorimetry, were presented. The multi-task program TA-kin meets all mathematical requirements for solving the numerical assignments. It is shown that the so-called compensation effect is due to the mathematical structure of the Arrhenius equation. Several applications of TA-kin to a lot of DSC- and TG-measurements and isoperibolic batch experiments as well as adiabatic semi batch experiments realized by precision calorimetry have been discussed.
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    Co-curing studies of ethynyl terminated oligoimide and (methyl) nadicimide resins (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 685-695 
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    ISSN: 1572-8943
    Keywords: DSC ; polymers ; resins ; TG
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract The paper describes the co-curing studies of ethynyl and ethenyl end-capped imide resins. The effect of composition and chemical structure of ethenyl end-capped resins (nadicimides) on thermal behavior of ethynyl end-capped resins was evaluated using DSC and thermogravimetric analysis. An increase in char yield was observed on co-curing of few resin formulations. A mechanism has been proposed to account for this observation.
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    Thermal transitions of cassava starch at intermediate water contents (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1213-1228 
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    ISSN: 1572-8943
    Keywords: cassava starch ; DSC ; starch thermal properties
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Order-disorder transitions were investigated in native cassava starch at intermediate moisture contents (35 to 60% wt. water), using Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and dynamic Wide Angle X-ray Diffractometry (WAXS) with a synchrotron radiation source. The gelatinization of granules occurs as a cooperative process, due to constraints induced in crystallites by the amorphous areas. Variations of water content (water volume fraction from 0.28 to 0.86) and heating rate (0.2–10
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    Isothermal microcalorimetric studies on starch retrogradation (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1179-1200 
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    ISSN: 1572-8943
    Keywords: DSC ; isothermal microcalorimetry ; retrogradation ; starch
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    Notes: Abstract In the present study, isothermal microcalorimetry was introduced as a tool to investigate properties of starch retrogradation during the first 24 h. The study was made on purified amylose and amylopectin from corn, as well as on native starches, such as wheat, potato, maize, waxy maize and amylomaize, differing in their amylose content. The results were obtained in the form ofP-t traces (thermal powervs. time), and integration of these traces gave a net exothermic enthalpy of reaction, caused by the crystallization of amylose and amylopectin. TheP-t traces reflected the quantities of amylose and amylopectin in the starch studied. Depending on the amylose content and the botanical source of the starch, the rate of crystallization of amylose was high and predominated over that of amylopectin during the first 5–10 h. The contribution from amylose crystallization to the measured exothermic enthalpy was very substantial during this period. After ∼10 h, amylose crystallized at a lower constant rate. During the first 24 h, amylopectin crystallized at a low steady rate. The exothermic enthalpies obtained by the isothermal microcalorimetric investigations during the first 24 h of retrogradation were generally low in relation to the endothermic melting enthalpies observed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements after 24 h of storage. The discrepancies in enthalpy values between the two methods are discussed in relation to phase separation and the endothermic effects owing to the decrease in polymer-water interactions when polymer-rich regions in the starch gel separate. Besides the exothermic enthalpies obtained, theP-t traces also made it possible to study the initial gelation properties of amylose from different botanical sources. The present study further demonstrated that isothermal microcalorimetry can provide a possible way to investigate the antistaling effect of certain polar lipids, such as sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS) and 1-monolauroyl-rac-glycerol (GML), when added to starches of different botanical origin. The net exothermic heat of reaction for starch retrogradation during the first 24 h was decreased when GML or SDS was added to the starch gels. The recordedP-t traces also showed how the effect of the added lipid influenced different periods during the first 24 h of starch retrogradation, and that the effect depended mainly on the amylose content, the botanical source of the starch, and the type of lipid used. When GML or SDS was added to waxy maize, the isothermal microcalorimetric studies clearly indicated some interaction between amylopectin and the polar lipids. These results concerning the action of anti-staling agents are further discussed in relation to the helical inclusion complexes formed between amylose-polar lipid and amylopectin-polar lipid.
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    Influence of heating and cooling rates on the glass transition temperature and the fragility parameter of sorbitol and fructose as measured by DSC (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1419-1436 
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    Keywords: cooling/heating rate ; DSC ; fragility parameter ; glass transition temperature ; sorbitol-fructose
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    Notes: Abstract The glass transition temperatures of sorbitol and fructose were characterized by four points determined on DSC heating thermograms (onset, mid-point, peak and end-point), plus the limit fictive temperature. The variations of these temperature values, observed as functions of cooling and heating rates, were used to determine the fragility parameter, as defined by Angell [1] to characterize the temperature dependence of the dynamic behavior of glass-forming liquids in the temperature range above the glass transition. The apparent activation energy values, determined for the different temperatures studied, were similar for fructose and sorbitol. These values were compared to data obtained from other techniques, such as mechanical spectroscopy. The variations of the apparent activation values, observed in experiments involving cooling and heating at the same rate, slow cooling followed by rate-heating, or rate-cooling followed by fast heating, were explained by aging effects occurring during the heating step.
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    Investigation of the complex thermal behavior of fats (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1545-1565 
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    Keywords: cocoa butter ; fat crystallization ; DSC ; fat polymorphism ; fat structure ; fats ; lard ; milk fat ; triacylglycerols ; X-ray diffraction
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    Notes: Abstract The thermal behavior of three ural fats (displaying very different composition), cocoa butter (CB)2, lard, and a stearin obtained from anhydrous milk-fat (AMF) fractionation, were studied by both DSC and X-ray diffraction as a function of temperature (XRDT). To perform temperature explorations between −30
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    Thermal behaviour of solid complexes of phenoxyalkanoic acids and divalent metals (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 5-14 
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    Keywords: cadmium phenoxyacetate ; complexes ; DSC ; mercury(II) phenoxyacetate ; TG
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    Notes: Abstract Solid cadmium and mercury(II) phenoxyacetates were prepared and investigated by DSC and TG techniques. The cadmium salt decomposed in two steps with the loss of 1.5 water molecules at first and the successive formation of CdCO3 as final product. Δdeh H * associated with the loss of one water molecule was compared with the corresponding values obtained for other phenoxyacetates previously studied and the obtained results were discussed. Anhydrous mercury(II) phenoxyacetate gave, on heating, HgCO3 which successively decomposed with the formation of gaseous products and a little amount of solid residue.
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    Activation energy of Se2Ge0.2Sb0.8 chalcogenide glass by differential scanning calorimetry (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 177-186 
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    Keywords: activation energy ; chalcogenide glass ; DSC
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    Notes: Abstract Results of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at different heating rates on Se2Ge0.2Sb0.8 chalcogenide glass are reported and discussed. As the heating rate (α) changed, also the glass transition temperature (T g) and onset temperature of crystallization (T c) changed. As the value of the transition activation energyE t changed, the crystallization fraction (χ), heat flow (Δq and the crystallization peak temperature (T p) also changed. The value of the effective activation energy of crystallizationE c was calculated by means of six different methods. The Se2Ge0.2Sb0.8 chalcogenide glass has two crystallization mechanisms, a one-dimensional and an other surface crystallization growth. The average value ofE t for Se2Ge0.2Sb0.8 is equal to 194.95±3.9 kJ·mol−1 and the average value ofE c is equal to 164±3.3 kJ·mol−1.
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    Thermal study of irradiated polyacetylene films (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 237-243 
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    Keywords: DSC ; DTG ; polyacetylene films ; TMA
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    Notes: Abstract Polyacetylene films irradiated byγ-rays up to 100 MRad were studied by means of TMA, DTG and DSC methods. It is shown that as the irradiation dose increases the concentration of topological branching knots into the polymer chains and theT g values decrease, the total mass loss and the enthalpy of the thermal isomerization reaction also decrease.
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    Nucleation and crystallization of polypropylene filled with BaSO4 (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 619-626 
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    Keywords: crystallization ; DSC ; filled polypropylene ; nucleation ; structural modification
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    Notes: Abstract The influence of high concentration of BaSO4 as nucleating agent on crystallization of fiber-forming polypropylene was studied by DSC. The work presents experimental and calculated values of melting and crystallization enthalpies of filled polypropylene and the influence on the formation of interface interactions between filler and polymers. These results show minimal interactions of components (BaSO4 and polypropylene) under experimental conditions.
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    Thermal analysis of macromolecules (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 643-679 
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    Keywords: DDTA ; DSC ; macromolecules
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    Notes: Abstract This review traces the development of thermal analysis over the last 40 years as it was experienced and contributed to by the author. The article touches upon the beginning of calorimetry and thermal analysis of polymers, the development of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), single run DSC and other special instrumentations, up to the recent addition of modulation to calorimetry. Many new words and phrases have been introduced to the field by the author and his students, leaving a trail of the varied interests one can have over 40 years. It began with “cold crystallization” and most recently the term “oriented, intermediate phase” was coined, creating in-between: “extended chain crystals,” the “irreversible thermodynamics of melting of polymer crystals,” “dynamic differential thermal analysis” (DDTA), “the rule of constant increase ofC p per mobile bead within a molecule at the glass transition temperature,” “superheating of polymer crystals,” “melting kinetics,” “crystallization during polymerization,” the “chain-folding principle, “molecular nucleation,” “rigid amorphous phase,” a “system of classifying molecules,” “macroconformations,” “amorphous defects,” “rules for the entropy of fusion based on molecular shape and flexibility,” “single-molecule single-crystals,” “a system of classifying phases and mesophases,” and “condis phase.”
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    Analysis of mesophase formation in side-chain liquid crystalline polycarbosilanes (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 795-808 
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    Keywords: DSC ; kinetics ; liquid crystalline polymer ; optical transmittance ; polycarbosilane ; side-chain mesogen ; transition parameters
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    Notes: Abstract This paper is concerned with an analysis of the thermodynamics and kinetics of mesophase formation by cooling from the isotropic state of side-chain liquid crystalline polycarbosilanes containing spacers in the range from 3 to 11 CH2-groups. The polymers are characterized by their thermotropic behaviour as far as temperature, enthalpy and entropy of the transitions are concerned. The kinetics was followed by optical and calorimetric methods. Longer spacer length leads to more perfect ordering in the mesophase, higher isotropization temperatures, and lower glass transition temperatures. The Avrami and Ozawa formalism to describe the transition kinetics to the mesophase from the isotropic state cannot be interpreted as the nucleation and growth mechanism known from crystallization.
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    A DSC study of the effects of sugars on thermal properties of rice starch gels before and after aging (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1201-1212 
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    Keywords: aging ; amylopectin ; DSC ; gels ; glass transition ; recrystallization ; retrogradation ; rice starch ; sugars
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    Notes: Abstract Thermal characterization of gelatinized binary rice starch-water and ternary starch-sugar-water gels before and after aging was carried out using differential scanning calorimetry. The glass transition temperature of the maximally freeze-concentrated solution (T′g) in both fresh and aged gels was observed to decrease progressively with increasing sugar concentration. Aging of the gels generally shiftedT′g to higher temperatures, but had little or no effect on the ice melting peak temperature (T m). The presence of various sugars could either accelerate or retard starch (amylopectin) recrystallization, depending on the type and concentration of sugar, as well as on starch/water ratio. A hypothesis based on the dual antiplasticizing-plasticizing effects of sugars was postulated to explain the observed effects. Of the sugars studied, xylose and fructose appeared to display exceptional retardative and accelerative effects, respectively, on retrogradation.
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    Effect of hydrothermal treatment on the gelatinisation properties of potato starch as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1229-1246 
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    Keywords: DSC ; gelatinisation ; potato starch
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    Notes: Abstract Gelatinisation temperatures as a function of moisture content were determined for potato starch. The native starch was then hydrothermally treated at a temperature 3% (Kelvin degrees) below the gelatinisation peak temperature and at moisture levels varying from 20 to 67% (by weight). Gelatinisation temperatures, temperature ranges and enthalpy values were affected for all treated samples. However, two sample populations could be distinguished: those samples treated under ‘limited’ moisture conditions and other samples treated in the presence of ‘extragranular’ moisture. A two-step hydrothermal treatment further increased the gelatinisation temperature, but the effect of the second step was small in comparison to that of the first.
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    DSC analysis of starch thermal properties related to functionality in low-moisture baked goods (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1299-1314 
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    Keywords: baked goods ; cookies ; crackers ; DSC ; pretzels ; starch
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    Notes: Abstract We describe an application of DSC as an analytical ‘fingerprinting’ method that has been used to characterize the thermal properties of wheat starch in low-moisture, wheat-flour-based baked products, including cookies, crackers, and pretzels. This use of DSC has enabled us to relate starch thermal properties, on the one hand, to starch structure, and on the other hand, to starch functionality, in terms of baking performance and finished-product quality.
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    Structure and properties of bread dough and crumb (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1339-1360 
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    Keywords: bread crumb ; bread dough ; DSC ; hydrocolloid ; mechanical properties ; pentosans ; protein
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    Notes: Abstract The effects of hydrocolloids (guar and locust bean gums), soluble pentosans, and whey proteins on staling of bread crumb were investigated by means of DSC, rheometry, and image analyis. One current hypothesis, that these ingredients would behave as “water binders” and, at least the former two, as anti-staling agents, was indeed confirmed, although this action might be indirect. All the samples considered showed an exothermic DSC peak preceding the endotherm of the amylopectin fusion. According to a previous work, this signal was attributed to a water-dependent cross-linking process that would involve next-neighbouring polymer chains. To check the effect produced by molecular modifications that were expected to increase the water uptake of these ingredients, doughs containing added succinylated pentosans and whey proteins, and a polycarboxylate polymer, PEMULEN TR-1, were examined. These modifications enhanced starch retrogradation and yielded a firmer crumb. It was tentatively concluded that some direct interaction between these modified molecules and the crumb polymers might have taken place. In line with the food polymer science approach, the use of Time-Temperature-Transformation (TTT) diagrams is also discussed.
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    Effects of medium and chemical modification on thermal characteristics of Β-lactoglobulin (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1513-1525 
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    Keywords: Β-lactoglobulin ; DSC ; protein modification ; thermal properties
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    Notes: Abstract The thermal properties of Β-lactoglobulin (Β-LG) were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) under different medium conditions.pH, neutral salts, protein perturbants, and polyols all affected the DSC characteristics of Β-LG. Acylation with fatty acids also changed the thermal properties, particularly peak width at half-height. The results suggest that the structural stability of Β-LG is controlled by non-covalent forces, particularly electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions. Disulfide bonds did not contribute to the thermal response of Β-LG. Fatty N-acyl-amino acids caused marked increases in thermal stability and decreases in denaturation enthalpy, and additional peaks were observed in the presence of some palmitoyl derivatives.
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    Interpolymer complexes of a new type (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 347-352 
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    Keywords: DSC ; optical densities ; thermal stability ; three-component interpolymer complexes
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    Notes: Abstract A new type of three-component interpolymer complexes (3IPCM) formed by two similarly charged polyelectrolytes and an oppositely charged low molar mass compound was studied by DSC, NMR and X-ray methods. The low molar mass monobasic compounds in these complexes act as mediators. This type of complexes differs from earlier-obtained 3IPCM, which contained a dibasic low molar mass mediator. The present 3IPCM were obtained from two polymers (polyacrylic acid and sodium polyphosphate) and bases such as 4-vinylpyridine and 2-methyl-5-vinylpyridine.
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    Kinetics of curing reaction of a diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A/1,3-bisaminomethyl-cyclohexane (DGEBA/1,3-BAC) epoxy resin system (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 387-395 
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    Keywords: cure kinetics ; DSC ; epoxy resins ; gelation
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    Notes: Abstract By employing differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) we have studied the kinetic of the cure reaction for a system containing a diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) and 1,3-bisaminomethylcyclohexane (1,3-BAC) as a curing agent, using an isothermal approach over the temperature range of 60–110°C. We have determined the reached conversions at several cure temperatures and the reaction rates. The results showed that this cure reaction is autocatalytic. The experimental data were compared with the autocatalytic model proposed by Kamal, which includes two rate constants and two reaction orders. This model gives a good description of cure kinetics up to vitrification point. The activation energies for these rate constants were 44-57 kJ mol−1. From the gel time measurements the value obtained for the overall activation energy was 49.5 kJ mol−1.
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    Lifetime prediction of ABS polymers based on thermoanalytical data (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 465-470 
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    Keywords: ABS polymer ; DSC ; lifetime estimation ; thermooxidation
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    Notes: Abstract The service life of ABS polymer, stabilized by 2-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyanilino)-4,6-bis(octylthio)-1,3,5-triazine and containing 50% of a modifying rubber component, was estimated from oxidative induction times measured by DSC in isothermal mode in the temperature interval 140–170°C. The lifetime of ABS powder at the actual temperature of drying was predicted by linear extrapolation according to Arrhenius. However, the extrapolated value was much longer than the real lifetime determined from the long-term oven aging tests at 70 and 90°C, simulating the industrial drying process. The effect of changes in the apparent activation energy of oxidation due to antioxidant consumption during polymer aging is discussed.
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    Thermochemical investigation of guest-host interactions in Werner clathrates of type [Ni(4-Etpy)4(NCS)2]·nG (G=naphthalene derivatives) (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 539-548 
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    Keywords: complexes ; DSC ; guest-host interactions ; X-ray
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    Notes: Abstract The stoichiometry of thermal decomposition and the thermochemistry were studied for [NiL4(NCS)2] (I) as a host complex, and for its clathrates of type [NiL4(NCS)2]·2G, where L=4-ethylpyridine and guest molecule G=1-methylnaphthalene in clathrate (II), 1-chloronaphthalene in (III) or 1-bromonaphthalene in (IV). For I, the loss of volatile components proceeds in three steps (−2L, −L, −L); the first steps for II–IV also involve the release of G (−2G, −2L). DSC and X-ray powder measurements indicated a phase transition in the host lattice, and allowed differentiation of the escape of G and L molecules. The enthalpy changes give the following sequence of thermodynamic stability for the studied chlathrates: I〉II〉III.
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    Thermal analysis of poly(2-methylpentamethylene terephthalamide) (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 753-771 
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    Keywords: crystal-crystal transitions ; crystal forms ; DMA ; DSC ; Nylon M5T ; X-ray
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    Notes: Abstract Poly(2-methylpentamethylene terephthalamide) (Nylon M5T) is a new high temperature aromatic polyamide developed by Hoechst Celanese. In this paper thermal properties of Nylon M5T chips, as well as as-spun and drawn fibers were studied by DSC, DMA, hot stage microscopy and WAXS.T g of the fully amorphous Nylon M5T is 143°C when measured by DSC;T g increases with crystallinity to 151°C. The temperature dependence of the solid and melt specific heat capacities has also been determined. The heat capacity increase at the glass transition of the amorphous polymer is 103.9 J °C−1 mol−1.T g by DMA for the as-spun fiber is 155°C, for a drawn fiber is 180°C. Three secondary transitions were observed by DMA in addition to the glass transition. These correspond to a local mode relaxation of the methylene groups at −120°C, onset of rotation of the amide-groups at −65°C and the onset of the rotation of the phenylenegroups (at 63°C). The crystallinity of Nylon M5T strongly depends on the rate of cooling from the melt. The isothermal crystallization data are melt temperature dependent: two-dimensional crystallization takes place when the samples are crystallized from higher melt temperatures, and this phase changes into a spherulitic structure during cooling to room temperature. Spherulitic crystallization occurs when lower melt temperatures are used. This polymer has three crystal forms as indicated by DSC, DMA and WAXS data. The crystal to crystal transitions are clearly visible when amorphous samples are heated in the DSC, or the DMA curves of as-spun fibers are recorded. It is experimentally shown that a considerable melting of the lower temperature crystal forms takes place during the crystal to crystal transitions. The equilibrium melting point as measured by the Hoffman-Weeks method, has been determined to be 339°C.
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    On the determination of the melting point of semicrystalline polymer by DSC (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 871-878 
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    Notes: Abstract This is a study for criteria to judge the melting point of semi-crystalline polymers from the DSC endotherm for polymer melting. Beyond standard indium DSC melting results an evaluation has been made on a series of polyethylenes for which crystal sizes were measured and predicted from Raman LAM analysis. The results confirm the conclusion of Prof. Wunderlich that the DSC content of melting is the proper basis of reporting melting points.
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    Modulated temperature DSC measurements relating to the cold crystallization process of poly(ethylene terephtalate) (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 893-903 
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    Keywords: cold crystallization ; DSC ; heat capacity ; modulated temperature DSC ; poly(ethylene terephtalate)
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    Notes: Abstract The modulated temperature differential scanning calorimetric method (MT-DSC) yields three temperature dependent signals, an underlying heat capacity curve from the underlying heat flow rate (corresponding to the conventional DSC signal), and a complex heat capacity curve with a real part (storage heat capacity) and an imaginary part (loss heat capacity). These curves have been measured in the cold crystallization region for poly(ethylene terephtalate) with a modified Perkin-Elmer DSC-7. The underlying curve shows the well known large exothermic crystallization peak. The storage heat capacity shows a step change which reproduces the change in heat capacity during crystallization. This curve may be used as baseline, to separate the crystallization heat flow rate from the underlying heat flow rate curve. The loss heat capacity curve exhibits a small exothermic peak at the temperature of the step change of the storage curve. It could be caused by changes of the molecular mobility during crystallization.
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    Thermogravimetric analysis for boiling points and vapour pressure (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 1251-1258 
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    Notes: Abstract A TGA instrument has been adapted for rapid measurement of boiling points and vapour pressure at temperatures from ambient up to 400°C and pressures from ambient down to 20 mm Hg. Samples were contained in sealed holders having a laser-drilled aperture. Several organic liquids in the 100 to 300 gMW range showed good agreement with reference vapour pressure data. Sample mass, heating rate, and use of inert diluents were important variables affecting accuracy of vapour pressure measurements.
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    Thermodynamic transition properties of highly ordered smectic phases (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 957-973 
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    Notes: Abstract A series of polyethers have been synthesized from 1-(4-hydroxy-4′-biphenyl)-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane and α, Ω-dibromoalkanes having different numbers of methylene units [TPPs]. Both odd- and even-numbered TPPs [TPP(n=odd)s and TPP(n=even)s) exhibit multiple transitions during cooling and heating and they show little supercooling dependence, indicating close-to-equilibrium nature of these transitions. Combining the structural characterization obtainedvia wide angle X-ray diffraction powder and fiber patterns at different temperatures and the morphological observations from microscopy techniques, not only the nematic liquid crystalline phase but also highly ordered smecticF, smectic crystalG andH phases have been identified. The phase diagrams for both TPP(n=odd)s and TPP(n=even)s have been constructed [1–3]. Thermodynamic properties (enthalpy and entropy changes) during these transitions are studied based on differential scanning calorimetry experiments. The contributions of the mesogenic groups and methylene units to each ordering process can be separated and they indicate the characteristics of these processes thereby providing estimations of the transition types.
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    Thermal investigation of PEG 4000 — oxazepam binary system (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1743-1753 
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    Keywords: DSC ; HSM ; oxazepam ; PEG 4000 ; solid dispersion
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    Notes: Abstract A thermal study using DSC and Hot Stage Microscopy (HSM) was carried out to investigate the interaction in solid state of the binary system PEG 4000 — oxazepam, and to establish their phase diagram. The eutectic composition, which melting occurs at lower temperature as compared with the pure components, has been determined. The results obtained by DSC and HSM have indicated that PEG 4000 — oxazepam mixtures displays no obvious incompatibilities, and that the system shows a typical eutectic behaviour. However because of the closeness of the melting of PEG 4000 to the eutectic temperature, it was difficult to determine precisely the eutectic composition and temperature on the basis of DSC measurements alone. The use of heats of fusion corresponding to physical mixtures allowed an estimation of the eutectic composition at 6% w/w oxazepam. Additional information of temperature (57.6
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1755-1758 
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    Keywords: combustion calorimetry ; DSC ; sulphamide type compounds
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    Notes: Abstract Two compounds of sulphamide type:p-amino-benzene sulphonamide (I) and 3,4-dimethylisoxazol 5-sulphanylamide (II) were studied by combustion calorimetry and by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The enthalpies in solid state at 298,15 K of combustion, δc H m o (I)=-2788,5±1,6 kJ mol−1, δc H m o (II)=-5036±3,8 kJ mol−1 and of formation, δf H m o (I)=-458,3±1,6 kJ mol−1, δfH m o (II)=-180,1±3,8 kJ mol−1 were determined. The thermal effects concerning the melting and phase transition of this compounds were also measured.
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    Application of differential scanning calorimetry in food research and food quality assurance (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 1787-1803 
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    Keywords: DSC ; food components ; food microbiology ; food quality
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    Notes: Abstract Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is the most widely used thermal analytical technique in food research and it has a great utility in quality assurance of food. Proteins are the most studied food components by thermal analysis including studies on conformation changes of food proteins as affected by various environmental factors, thermal denaturation of tissue proteins, food enzymes and enzyme preparations for the food industry, as well as effects of various additives on their thermal properties. Freezing-induced denaturation of food proteins and the effect of cryoprotectants are also monitored by DSC. Polymer characterization based on DSC of polysaccharides, gelatinization behaviour of starches and interaction of starch with other food components can be determined, and phase transitions during baking processes can be studied by DSC. Studies on crystallization and melting behaviour of fats observed by DSC indicate changes in lipid composition or help characterizing products. Thermal oxidative decomposition of edible oils examined by DSC can be used for predicting oil stability. Using DSC in the freezing range has a great potential for measuring and modelling frozen food thermal properties, and to estimate the state of water in foods and food ingredients. Research in food microbiology utilizes DSC in better understanding thermoadaptive mechanisms or heat killing of food-borne microorganisms. Isothermic microcalorimetric techniques provide informative data regarding microbial growth and microbial metabolism.
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    Thermal characterization of polyethylene glycols applied in the pharmaceutical technology using differential scanning calorimetry and hot stage microscopy (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 291-304 
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    Keywords: DSC ; pharmaceutical technology ; polymer
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    Notes: Abstract In the present study, the effect of the molecular weight and thermal treatments on commercial polyethylene glycols (PEG) samples used in the pharmaceutical processing technology, has been analyzed using DSC and HSM. The molecular weight of these polymers range from 1500 to 200000. Thermal investigations on the melting behavior of original PEG samples (as received from the manufacturer) showed only one single melting DSC endotherm effect before 373 K. This fact was associated to the presence of only one type of polymeric chain. Using standard conditions, PEG samples were solidified from the melt at 373 K, either by flash cooling (using liquid nitrogen and an ice bath) and by slow cooling, soaked and by slow cooling at room temperature. They were further studied by DSC. It was found that after cooling, PEG with molecular weight 1500 and 15000 showed DSC thermograms with a single endothermic peak. However, thermograms for PEG 4000 and 6000 produced a splitted melting endotherm. This fact was attributed to the presence of two types of chains, that are the folded and extended chains. Ageing time influences also the shape of the DSC endothermal effects. It was concluded that the endotherms obtained after heating these PEG indicate that the thermal history determine the structure (extended or folded chain type forms) and the degree of crystallinity, as evidenced by changes in heat of fusion values, melting points and structures after crystallization. The relationships between melting enthalpies and melting points, as deduced from DSC diagrams, with molecular weight of the polymers are also presented.
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    Thermal properties of a molecule in a constrained state (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 1081-1092 
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    Keywords: chemical ionization MS ; constrained dye ; DSC ; dye-amylose inclusion complex ; Tandem MS ; TGA ; Thermal Desorption MS
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    Notes: Abstract The thermal properties of a dye molecule (guest) inside the cavity of a host amylose helix were studied by TGA, DSC, and Thermal Desorption MS. The results show that the degradation temperature of dye shifts to a higher temperature by approximately 20°C.
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    Analysis of a symmetric neopolyol ester (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 1093-1111 
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    Keywords: conformational disorder ; crystal ; DSC ; glass ; glass transition ; heat capacity ; melting transition ; tetra[methyleneoxycarbonyl (2,4,4-trimethyl) pentyl] methane
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    Notes: Abstract Quantitative thermal analysis was carried out for tetra[methyleneoxycarbonyl(2,4,4-trimethyl)pentyl]methane. The ester has a glass transition temperature of 219 K and a melting temperature of 304 K. The heat of fusion is 51.3 kJ mol−1, and the increase in heat capacity at the glass transition is 250 J K−1 mol−1. The measured and calculated heat capacities of the solid and liquid states from 130 to 420 K are reported and a discussion of the glass and melting transitions is presented. The computation of the heat capacity made use of the Advanced Thermal Analysis System, ATHAS, using an approximate group-vibration spectrum and a Tarasov treatment of the skeletal vibrations. The experimental and calculated heat capacities of the solid ester were compared over the whole temperature range to detect changes in order and the presence of large-amplitude motion. An addition scheme for heat capacities of this and related esters was developed and used for the extrapolation of the heat capacity of the liquid state for this ester. The liquid heat capacity for the title ester is well represented by 691.1+1.668T [J K−1 mol−1]. A deficit in the entropy and enthalpy of fusion was observed relative to values estimated from empirical addition schemes, but no gradual disordering was noted outside the transition region. The final interpretation of this deficit of conformational entropy needs structure and mobility analysis by solid state13C NMR and X-ray diffraction. These analyses are reported in part II of this investigation.
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    Analysis of a symmetric neopolyol ester (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 1113-1132 
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    Keywords: chiral molecule ; conformational disorder and motion ; crystal ; DSC ; heat capacity ; γ-gauche effect ; glass ; glass transition ; melting transition ; molecular mechanics computations ; tetra[methyleneoxycarbonyl (2,4,4-trimethyl) pentyl] methane ; solid state13C NMR ; X-ray diffraction
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    Notes: Abstract The symmetric neopolyol ester tetra[methyleneoxycarbonyl(2,4,4-trirnethyl)pentyl]methane (MOCPM) has been studied by variable-temperature solid-state13C NMR and X-ray powder diffraction and compared to molecular mechanics calculations of the molecular structure. Between melting and glass transition temperatures the material is semicrystalline, consisting of two conformationally and motionally distinguishable phases. The more mobile phase is liquid-like and is, thus attributed to an amorphous phase (≈16%). The branches of the molecules in the crystal exhibit two conformationally distinguishable behaviors. In one, the branches are well ordered (≈56%), in the other, the branches are conformationally disordered (≈28%). Different branches of the same molecule may show different conformational order. This unique character of the rigid phase is the reason for the deficit of the entropy of fusion observed earlier by DSC. In the melt, solid state NMR can identify two bonds that are rotationally immobile, even though the molecules as a whole have liquid-like mobility. This partial rigidity of the branches accounts quantitatively for the observed increase in heat capacity at the glass transition. The reason for this unique behavior of MOCPM, a small molecule, is the existence of one chiral centers in each of the four arms of the molecule. A statistical model assuming that at least two of the chiral centers must fit into the order of the crystal can explain the crystallization behavior and would require 12.5% amorphous phase, 28.1% conformational disorder, and 59.4% crystallinity, close to the observed maximum perfection.
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    Thermoporosimetry (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 1177-1189 
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    Keywords: DSC ; mercury porosimetry ; pore size distribution ; porous glass ; thermoporosimetry ; water
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    Notes: Abstract The pore size distributions (PSDs) of microporous glass, which were controlled by acid leaching subsequent to phase separation of CaO-Al2O3-B2O3-SiO2 glass, were determined via both mercury porosimetry and thermoporosimetry (thermal porosimetry). As a result, the pore radii, the cumulative pore volumes, and the surface areas determined via thermoporosimetry were in good agreement with those determined via mercury porosimetry. It was revealed that thermoporosimetry could be applied to pore structure analysis for porous materials having pore sizes at least up to 58 nm in radius.
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    Investigation of dehydroxylation of gibbsite into boehmite by DSC analysis (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 1339-1347 
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    Keywords: boehmite ; DSC ; gibbsite
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    Notes: Abstract The dehydroxylation of gibbsite into boehmite was investigated by means of DSC analysis under non-isothermal conditions in the temperature range 453–673 K at heating rates from 2.5 to 20.0 K min−1. Mathematical analysis of the experimental DSC curves revealed the mechanism and kinetics of the gibbsite dehydroxylation process. The kinetic curvesα=f(t) andα=f(T) are sigmoidal in shape; their inflection points and the νm point of the curvesν=f(T) andν=f(T) are interrelated and are defined by the concept of a stationary point. The activation energy for the first stage of gibbsite dehydroxylation in the temperature range 453–673 K is 132.92±8.33–142.26±8.33 kJ mol−1.
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    Thermal analysis of the polymerization process on the surface of inorganic fillers (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 46 (1996), S. 1541-1550 
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    Keywords: DSC ; FTIR ; grafting ; IDSC ; kinetic parameters ; polymerization ; TG ; thermodynamic parameters
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    Notes: Abstract The thermal polymerization of pentabromobenzyl (mono)acrylate (PBB-MA) on the surface of the inorganic fillers Mg(OH)2 and CaCO3 was studied. FTIR spectroscopy and extraction of the polymer in bromobenzene show that polypentabromobenzyl acrylate (PBB-PA) was mostly grafted on the surface of Mg(OH)2. Thermal analysis (TG, DSC, isothermal DSC (IDSC)) demonstrated an increase in polymerization starting temperature, and differences in polymerization enthalpy and apparent activation energy when an inorganic filler is added. These differences depend on the chemical composition of the filler used.
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    Thermoplastic polymers quality control (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 117-121 
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    Keywords: baseline ; DSC ; heat of fusion ; polyethylene
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    Notes: Abstract A technique is proposed for improving the accuracy of the heat of fusion of semicrystalline polymers by DSC. The results of three commercially available instruments are compared.
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    Characterization of thermomechanical properties in starch and cereal products (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 195-213 
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    Keywords: DMA ; DSC ; rheological impacts ; thermomechanical properties
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    Notes: Abstract Thermomechanical properties of bread components can be used to characterize various events that have direct rheological impacts. The objective is to observe changes that occur during staling and toughening of a bread or similar products. In this article, characterization of bread polymers, starch and gluten, were examined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA).
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    Measurement of heterogeneously catalyzed gas reactions by DSC (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 445-452 
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    Keywords: catalysts ; catalyst activity ; catalyst deactivation ; DSC ; gas reactions ; kinetics
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    Notes: Abstract Gas reactions, catalyzed by solid catalysts, can be measured by DSC. In the experimental set-up an open sample pan with catalyst (powder or pellet) is placed on the sample side of the DSC sensor. The reactive gas mixture flows through the cell and reacts on the catalyst surface. The heat effect, caused by this reaction, results into a DSC signal. The calibration procedure is described for quantitative evaluation of the DSC measurements. For illustration four different reaction systems are discussed.
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    Internal flexibility of cardiac myosins (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 503-514 
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    Keywords: cardiac myosin ; DSC ; flexibility of myosin heads ; spin-labelling
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    Notes: Abstract Conventional and saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR and ST EPR) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were used to study the motional dynamics and segmental flexibility of cardiac myosins. Cardiac myosins isolated from bovine and human heart muscle were spin-labelled with isothiocyanate- or maleimide-based probe molecules at the reactive sulfhydryl sites (Cys-697 and Cys-707) of the motor domain. The maleimide probe molecules attached to human cardiac myosin rotated with an effective rotational correlation time of 33 ns which was at least eight times shorter than the rotational correlation time of the same label on skeletal myosin (260 ns). In the presence of MgADP and MgADP plus orthovanadate, flexibility changes in the multisubunit structure of myosins were detected, but this did not lead to changes of the overall rotational property of the myosin heads. Significant difference in the internal flexibility was detected on myosin samples isolated from ischemic tissue, the rotational correlation time decreased to 25 ns. DSC measurements supported the view that addition of nucleotides produced additional loosening in the multisubunit structure of cardiac myosin. It is postulated that there is an intersite communication between the nucleotide binding domain and the 20 kDa subunit where the reactive thiol sites are located.
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    Thermal analysis of hydrated calcium aluminates (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 765-774 
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    Keywords: calcium aluminates ; cement ; DSC
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    Notes: Abstract Differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) has been used to study the dehydration characteristics of hydrated calcium aluminates such as CA, CA2 and C12A7 where C and A stand for CaO and Al2O3 respectively. Dehydration of CAH10 and C2AH8 (whereH=H2O) occur ∼ at 160–180°C and 200–280°C respectively. These two phases are unstable and ultimately get transformed to AH3 and C3AH6. Dehydration of AH3 and C3AH6 occur between 290 and 350°C and overlap at lower scanning rate. The activation energy for dehydration of the stable AH3 and C2AH6 phases has been found to be 107.16 and 35.58 kJ mol−1 respectively. The compressive strength of the hydrated calcium aluminates has been determined. The result shows that in the case of CA, almost 90% of ultimate strength has been attained in 1 day whereas in CA2, ultimate strength has been attained in 14 days and in C12A7 in 1 day. DSC results have been correlated with the rate of strength developments.
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    Caracterisation par analyse calorimetrique differentielle des complexes entre LiAlH4 et les ethers-couronnes 12-C-4, 15-C-5, dicyclohexano-18-C-6 (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 833-846 
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    Keywords: crown-ethers (CE) ; 12-C-4 ; 15-C-5 ; DC 18-C-6anti ; DC 18-C-6syn ; DSC ; LiAlH4-CE complexes ; glass-transition ; solvates
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    Notes: Abstract The thermal behaviour of complexes [Li+-EC](AlH4)− withEC=12-C-4, 15-C-5, DC 18-C-6 (cis-anti-cis andcis-syn-cis isomers) was investigated by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). These complexes were prepared as solids from benzene solutions. Pure EC and several solvated species [Li+-EC](AlH4)−·nC6H6 (EC=15-C-5, DC 18-C-6syn) were also studied. DSC has revealed various phenomena. Solid-solid transitions were observed before melting for [Li+-EC](AlH4)− withEC=12-C-4 and 15-C-5. They are probably explained by small molecular modifications strongly dependent on the thermal history of the sample. A glass-transition was found for the pure crown-ether DC 18-C-6anti, the complex [Li+-EC](A1H4)− withEC=DC-18-C-6anti and the two solvates mentioned above.
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    The glass transition (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 887-896 
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    Keywords: compensation temperature ; DSC ; fictive temperature ; poly(ethylene terephthalate) ; thermally stimulated depolarization current
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    Notes: Abstract This work deals with a comparison of data obtained from differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermally stimulated depolarization current (TSDC) investigations. Measurements were performed on various poly(ethylene terephthalate) films: a wholly amorphous, a thermally crystallized and drawn samples. For each specimen, the TSDC complex spectra, resolved into elementary ones, led to the determination of the classical compensation temperature (T c ). The glass transition temperature (T g) and the fictive equilibrium temperature (T f) were determined by means of DSC. It appears thatT c is different fromT g and very close toT f.
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    Isothermal melt crystallization kinetics of poly(L-lactic acid) (1996)
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    Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry 47 (1996), S. 931-939 
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    Keywords: DSC ; isothermal melt crystallization ; kinetic parameters ; Mathematica® ; new kinetic model ; poly(L-lactic acid)
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    Notes: Abstract A DSC study was carried out of the isothermal melt crystallization kinetics of poly(L-lactic acid), PLLA, at 110, 115, 120, 125 and 130
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    Olefinic acetates, Δ-9,11–14: OAc and Δ-7,9–12: OAc used as sex pheromone components in three geometrid moths,Idaea aversata, I. straminata, andI. biselata (Geometridae, Lepidoptera) (1996)
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    Journal of chemical ecology 22 (1996), S. 1505-1526 
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    Keywords: Sex pheromone ; Idaea aversata ; Idaea straminata ; Idaea biselata ; (Z,Z)-9,11-tetradecadienyl acetate ; (Z,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate ; (Z,E)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate ; Lepidoptera ; Geometridae ; electroantennography ; single cell recording ; biosynthesis ; phylogeny ; evolution
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    Notes: Abstract Pheromone compounds so far identified from most geometrid moths consist of all-Z diene, triene, or tetraene hydrocarbons with chain lengths of C17 to C21, and their monoepoxide derivatives biosynthesized from linoleic and linolenic acids. The present study reports the occurrence of olefinic acetates as sex pheromones in three species of Geometridae. (Z,Z)-9,11-tetradecadienyl acetate and (Z,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate found in female gland extracts ofIdaea aversata elicited significant responses from conspecific male antennae in gas chromatography with electroantennographic detection (GCEAD). In extracts ofI. straminata, (Z,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate, (E,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate, and (Z,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate were found, and the synthetic compounds elicited strong responses from conspecific male antennae. In the third species,I. biselata, only (Z,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate was found in the female extracts, and this compound elicited a strong EAD response from the conspecific male antenna. The identities of the pheromone components inI. aversata andI. straminata were further confirmed according to their characteristic ions after GC-MS analyses. Single sensillum recordings fromI. aversata showed two types of pheromone-detecting sensilla present on the male antenna. One type contained two receptor neurons, one of which was specifically tuned to (Z,Z)-9,11-tetradecadienyl acetate, the other to (Z,E)-9,11-tetradecadienyl acetate. A second type contained one neuron responding to (Z,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate. The two types were clearly different also with respect to external morphology, the former being considerably longer and having a larger base diameter. Also inI. straminata two physiological types of sensilla could be distinguished. One type contained two neurons, one of which responded to (Z,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate, the other to (Z,E)-9,11-tetradecadienyl acetate. The second type contained one neuron, responding to (Z,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate. No correlation between external morphology and physiological response of the investigated sensilla was observed inI. straminata. In field tests, a two-component blend containing (Z,Z)-9,11-tetradecadienyl acetate and (Z,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate in a ratio of 10:1 was attractive to males ofI. aversata. This two-component blend was also attractive to males ofI. straminata, but in a ratio of 1:1. High numbers of maleI. biselata were caught in traps baited with (Z,Z)-7,9-dodecadienyl acetate alone. The incorporation of deuterium labels into pheromone components after topical application of deuterium-labeled palmitic acid confirmed that the pheromone components ofI. aversata could be synthesized from this precursor, as has been previously observed for acetate pheromone components of many other moth species. Our results suggest that an evolutionary reversal back to the production of palmitic acid-derived pheromone components has occurred within the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae.
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    Interspecies relationships among ADP-ribosylation factors (ARFs): Evidence of evolutionary pressure to maintain individual identities (1996)
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    Molecular and cellular biochemistry 159 (1996), S. 15-23 
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    Keywords: guanine nucleotide-binding proteins ; evolution ; phylogeny ; structure-function
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    Notes: Abstract ADP-ribosylation factors (ARFs) are ∼20-kDa guanine nucleotide-binding proteins that are allosteric activators of the NAD:arginine ADP-ribosyltransferase activity of cholera toxin and appear to play a role in intracellular vesicular trafficking. Although the physiological roles of these proteins have not been defined, it has been presumed that each has a specific intracellular function. To obtain genetic evidence that each ARF is under evolutionary pressure to maintain its structure, and presumably function, rat ARF cDNA clones were isolated and their nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences were compared to those of other mammalian ARFs. Deduced amino acid sequences for rat ARFs 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 were identical to those of the known cognate human and bovine ARFs; rat ARF4 was 96% identical to human ARF4. Nucleotide sequences of both the untranslated as well as the coding regions were highly conserved. These results indicate that the ARF proteins are, as a family, extraordinarily well conserved across mammalian species. The unusually high degree of conservation of the untranslated regions is consistent with these regions having important regulatory roles and that individual ARFs contain structurally unique elements required for specific functions.
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    Chemotaxis of the unicellular green algaDunaliella salina and the ciliatedTetrahymena pyriformis—effects of glycine, lysine, and alanine, and their oligopeptides (1996)
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    Bioscience reports 16 (1996), S. 467-476 
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    Keywords: Chemotaxis ; evolution ; oligopeptides ; Tetrahymena ; Dunaliella
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    Notes: Abstract Chemotactic properties of amino acids (L-alanine, glycine and L-lysine) and their oligopeptides (10−6M) and binding sites to these ligands were investigated in two unicellular models, the heterotrophicTetrahymena pyriformis and the auxotrophicDunaliella salina. Chemotaxis ofDunaliella induced by simple amino acids and their derivatives demonstrated that binding sites (receptors) for food molecules are not only present in the membrane but are also able to induce their basic physiological response. InTetrahymena, substances with special molecular structure and properties (polar, hydrophilic character of the signal peptide chain)-5-L-Lys, 5-Glywere required for chemoattraction, other peptides tested, lacking the required structure, were repellent. Divergences in chemotaxis and binding assays of both species suggest that trends of functional and binding parameters do not run parallel at this level of evolution.
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    Molecular characterization of transketolase (EC 2.2.1.1) active in the Calvin cycle of spinach chloroplasts (1996)
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    Plant molecular biology 32 (1996), S. 475-484 
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    Keywords: carbon fixation ; chloroplasts ; evolution ; isoenzymes
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    Notes: Abstract A cDNA encoding the Calvin cycle enzyme transketolase (TKL; EC 2.2.1.1) was isolated from Sorghum bicolor via subtractive differential hybridization, and used to isolate several full-length cDNA clones for this enzyme from spinach. Functional identity of the encoded mature subunit was shown by an 8.6-fold increase of TKL activity upon induction of Escherichia coli cells that overexpress the spinach TKL subunit under the control of the bacteriophage T7 promoter. Chloroplast localization of the cloned enzyme is shown by processing of the in vitro synthesized precursor upon uptake by isolated chloroplasts. Southern blot-analysis suggests that TKL is encoded by a single gene in the spinach genome. TKL proteins of both higher-plant chloroplasts and the cytosol of non-photosynthetic eukaryotes are found to be unexpectedly similar to eubacterial homologues, suggesting a possible eubacterial origin of these nuclear genes. Chloroplast TKL is the last of the demonstrably chloroplast-localized Calvin cycle enzymes to have been cloned and thus completes the isolation of gene probes for all enzymes of the pathway in higher plants.
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    Phylogenetic relationship among all living species of the genusBubalus based on DNA sequences of the cytochromeb gene (1996)
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    Biochemical genetics 34 (1996), S. 443-452 
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    Keywords: Bubalus ; tamaraw ; anoa ; cytochromeb ; evolution
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    Notes: Abstract The cytochromeb genes of all living species ofBubalus, including the river type and the swamp type of domestic buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis), were sequenced to clarify their phylogenetic relationships. These sequences were compared together with the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) and banteng (Bos javanicus) sequences as an outgroup. Phylogenetic trees ofBubalus species based on the DNA sequences of the cytochromeb gene demonstrated that the tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis), endemic to the Philippines, could be classified into the subgenusBubalus, not the subgenusAnoa. The divergence time between the lowland anoa (B. depressicornis) and the mountain anoa (B. quarlesi) was estimated at approximately 2.0 million years (Myr), which is almost the same as the coalescence time for theBubalus sequences. This large genetic distance supports the idea that the lowland anoa and the mountain anoa are different species. An unexpectedly large genetic distance between the river and the swamp type of domestic buffaloes suggests a divergence time of about 1.7 Myr, while the swamp type was noticed to have the closest relationship with the tamaraw (1.5 Myr). This result implies that the two types of domestic buffaloes have differentiated at the full species level.
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    Characterization of a maize ribosomal P2 protein cDNA and phylogenetic analysis of the P1/P2 family of ribosomal proteins (1996)
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    Plant molecular biology 30 (1996), S. 655-658 
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    Keywords: cDNA ; evolution ; p2 protein ; ribosome ; Zea mays
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    Notes: Abstract The nucleotide sequence of a full-length ribosomal P2 protein cDNA from maize was determined and used for a sequence comparison with the P2 and P1 proteins from other organisms. The integration of these data into a phylogenetic tree shows that the P proteins separated into the subspecies P1 and P2 before the eukaryotic kingdoms including plants developed from their ancestor.
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    RNA editing in plant mitochondria and chloroplasts (1996)
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    Plant molecular biology 32 (1996), S. 343-365 
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    Keywords: RNA editing ; tRNA editing ; chloroplast ; mitochondrion ; post-transcriptional modification ; initiation codon ; stop codon ; deamination ; evolution ; guide RNA ; transgenic plants ; plastid transformation
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    Notes: Abstract In the mitochondria and chloroplasts of higher plants there is an RNA editing activity responsible for specific C-to-U conversions and for a few U-to-C conversions leading to RNA sequences different from the corresponding DNA sequences. RNA editing is a post-transcriptional process which essentially affects the transcripts of protein coding genes, but has also been found to modify non-coding transcribed regions, structural RNAs and intron sequences. RNA editing is essential for correct gene expression: proteins translated from edited transcripts are different from the ones deduced from the genes sequences and usually present higher similarity to the corresponding non-plant homologues. Initiation and stop codons can also be created by RNA editing. RNA editing has also been shown to be required for the stabilization of the secondary structure of introns and tRNAs. The biochemistry of RNA editing in plant organelles is still largely unknown. In mitochondria, recent experiments indicate that RNA editing may be a deamination process. A plastid transformation technique showed to be a powerful tool for the study of RNA editing. The biochemistry as well as the evolutionary features of RNA editing in both organelles are compared in order to identify common as well as organelle-specific components.
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    Higher-plant chloroplast and cytosolic fructose-1,6-bisphophosphatase isoenzymes: origins via duplication rather than prokaryote-eukaryote divergence (1996)
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    Plant molecular biology 32 (1996), S. 485-491 
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    Keywords: Calvin cycle ; sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase ; isoenzymes ; endosymbiosis ; evolution
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    Notes: Abstract Full-size cDNAs encoding the precursors of chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBP), sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase (SBP), and the small subunit of Rubisco (RbcS) from spinach were cloned. These cDNAs complete the set of homologous probes for all nuclear-encoded enzymes of the Calvin cycle from spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.). FBP enzymes not only of higher plants but also of non-photosynthetic eukaryotes are found to be unexpectedly similar to eubacterial homologues, suggesting a eubacterial origin of these eukaryotic nuclear genes. Chloroplast and cytosolic FBP isoenzymes of higher plants arose through a gene duplication event which occurred early in eukaryotic evolution. Both FBP and SBP of higher plant chloroplasts have acquired substrate specificity, i.e. have undergone functional specialization since their divergence from bifunctional FBP/SBP enzymes of free-living eubacteria.
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    A model for the evolution of the plastid sec apparatus inferred from secY gene phylogeny (1996)
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    Plant molecular biology 32 (1996), S. 685-692 
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    Keywords: evolution ; protein transport ; sec apparatus ; secA ; secY ; thylakoid
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    Notes: Abstract Plastids possess a bacteria-like sec apparatus that is involved in protein import into the thylakoid lumen. We have analyzed one of the genes essential for this process, secY. A secY gene from the unicellular red alga Cyanidium caldarium was found to be transcriptionally active, demonstrating for the first time that secY is functional in a plastid. Unlike the situation seen in bacteria the C. caldarium gene is transcribed monocistronically, despite the fact that it is part of a large ribosomal gene cluster that resembles bacterial spc operons. A molecular phylogeny is presented for 8 plastid-encoded secY genes, four of which have not been published yet. In this analysis plastid secY genes fall into two classes. One of these, comprising of genes from multicellular red algae and Cryptophyta, clusters in a neighbour-joining tree with a cyanobacterial counterpart. Separated from the aforesaid are secY genes from Chromophyta, Glaucocystophyta and a unicellular red alga. All plastid and cyanobacterial sequences are located on the same branch, separated from bacterial homologues. We postulate that the two classes of secY genes are paralogous, i.e. their gene products are involved in different protein translocation processes. Based on this assumption a model for the evolution of the plastid sec apparatus is presented.
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    Gene-specific universal mammalian sequence-tagged sites: Application to the canine genome (1996)
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    Biochemical genetics 34 (1996), S. 321-341 
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    Keywords: genome mapping ; evolution ; homology ; polymerase chain reaction
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    Notes: Abstract We are developing a genetic map of the dog based partly upon markers contained within known genes. In order to facilitate the development of these markers, we have used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers designed to conserved regions of genes that have been sequenced in at least two species. We have refined the method for designing primers to maximize the number that produce successful amplifications across as many mammalian species as possible. We report the development of primer sets for 11 loci in detail:CFTR, COL10A1, CSFIR, CYP1A1, DCN1, FES, GHR, GLB1, PKLR, PVALB, andRB1. We also report an additional 75 primer sets in the appendices. The PCR products were sequenced to show that the primers amplify the expected canine genes. These primer sets thus define a class of gene-specific sequence-tagged sites (STSs). There are a number of uses for these STSs, including the rapid development of various linkage tools and the rapid testing of genomic and cDNA libraries for the presence of their corresponding genes. Six of the eleven gene targets reported in detail have been proposed to serve as “anchored reference loci” for the development of mammalian genetic maps [O'Brien, S. J.,et al., Nat. Genet. 3:103, 1993]. The primer sets should cover a significant portion of the canine genome for the development of a linkage map. In order to determine how useful these primer sets would be for the other genome projects, we tested the 11 primer sets on the DNA from species representing five mammalian orders. Eighty-four percent of the gene-species combinations amplified successfully. We have named these primer sets “universal mammalian sequence-tagged sites” because they should be useful for many mammalian genome projects.
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    Gene-specific universal mammalian sequence-tagged sites: Application to the canine genome (1996)
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    Biochemical genetics 34 (1996), S. 321-341 
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    Notes: Abstract We are developing a genetic map of the dog based partly upon markers contained within known genes. In order to facilitate the development of these markers, we have used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers designed to conserved regions of genes that have been sequenced in at least two species. We have refined the method for designing primers to maximize the number that produce successful amplifications across as many mammalian species as possible. We report the development of primer sets for 11 loci in detail:CFTR, COL10A1, CSFIR, CYP1A1, DCN1, FES, GHR, GLB1, PKLR, PVALB, andRB1. We also report an additional 75 primer sets in the appendices. The PCR products were sequenced to show that the primers amplify the expected canine genes. These primer sets thus define a class of gene-specific sequence-tagged sites (STSs). There are a number of uses for these STSs, including the rapid development of various linkage tools and the rapid testing of genomic and cDNA libraries for the presence of their corresponding genes. Six of the eleven gene targets reported in detail have been proposed to serve as “anchored reference loci” for the development of mammalian genetic maps [O'Brien, S. J.,et al., Nat. Genet. 3:103, 1993]. The primer sets should cover a significant portion of the canine genome for the development of a linkage map. In order to determine how useful these primer sets would be for the other genome projects, we tested the 11 primer sets on the DNA from species representing five mammalian orders. Eighty-four percent of the gene-species combinations amplified successfully. We have named these primer sets “universal mammalian sequence-tagged sites” because they should be useful for many mammalian genome projects.
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    Elongation factor 1α genes of the red alga Porphyra purpurea include a novel, developmentally specialized variant (1996)
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    Plant molecular biology 31 (1996), S. 77-85 
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    Keywords: developmental regulation ; elongation factor ; evolution ; gene expression ; rhodophyte, sporophyte
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    Notes: Abstract The life cycle of the red alga Porphyra purpurea alternates between two morphologically distinct phases: a shell-boring, filamentous sporophyte and a free-living, foliose gametophyte. From a subtracted cDNA library enriched for sporophyte-specific sequences, we isolated a cDNA encoding an unusual elongation factor 1α (EF-1α) that is expressed only in the sporophyte. A second EF-1α gene that is expressed equally in the sporophyte and the gametophyte was isolated from a genomic library. These are the only EF-1α genes detectable in P. purpurea. The constitutively expressed gene encodes and EF-1α very similar to those of most eukaryotes. However, the sporophyte-specific EF-1α is one of the most divergent yet described, with nine insertions or deletions ranging in size from 1 to 26 amino acids. This is the first report of a developmental stage-specific EF-1α outside of the animal kingdom and suggests a fundamental role for EF-1α in the developmental process.
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    Regulation, unique gene organization, and unusual primary structure of carbon fixation genes from a marine phycoerythrin-containing cyanobacterium (1996)
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    Plant molecular biology 32 (1996), S. 1103-1115 
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    Keywords: carboxysomes ; evolution ; ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase ; Synechococcus
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    Notes: Abstract Marine phycoerythrin-containing cyanobacteria are major contributors to the overall productivity of the oceans. The present study indicates that the structural genes of the carbon assimilatory system are unusually arranged and possess a unique primary structure compared to previously studied cyanobacteria. Southern blot analyses of Synechococcus sp. strain WH7803 chromosomal DNA digests, using the ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) large subunit gene from Synechococcus sp. strain PCC6301 as a heterologous probe, revealed the presence of a 6.4 kb HindIII fragment that was detectable at only low stringency. Three complete open reading frames (ORFs) were detected within this fragment. Two of these ORFs potentially encode the Synechococcus sp. strain WH7803 rbcL and rbcS genes. The third ORF, situated immediately upstream from rbcL, potentially encodes a homologue of the ccmK gene from Synechococcus sp. strain PCC7942. The deduced amino acid sequences of each of these ORFs are more similar to homologues among the β/γ purple bacteria than to existing cyanobacterial homologues and phylogenetic analysis of the Rubisco large and small subunit sequences confirmed an unexpected relationship to sequences from among the β/γ purple bacteria. This is the first instance in which the possibility has been considered that an operon encoding three genes involved in carbon fixation may have been laterally transferred from a purple bacterium. Analysis of mRNA extracted from cells grown under diel conditions indicated that rbcL, rbcS and ccmK were regulated at the transcriptional level; specifically rubisco transcripts were highest during the midday period, decreased at later times during the light period and eventually reached a level where they were all but undetectable during the dark period. Primer extension analysis indicated that the ccmK, rbcL and rbcS genes were co-transcribed.
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    Molecular characterization of a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in the gymnosperm Picea abies (Norway spruce) (1996)
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    Plant molecular biology 32 (1996), S. 923-936 
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    Keywords: PEPC ; C3 metabolism ; gene expression ; evolution ; gymnosperm ; Picea abies
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    Notes: Abstract Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) genes and cDNA sequences have so far been isolated from a broad range of angiosperm but not from gymnosperm species. We constructed a cDNA library from seedlings of Norway spruce (Picea abies) and identified cDNAs coding for PEPC. A full-length PEPC cDNA was sequenced. It consists of 3522 nucleotides and has an open reading frame (ORF) that encodes a polypeptide (963 amino acids) with a molecular mass of 109 551. The deduced amino acid sequence revealed a higher similarity to the C3-form PEPC of angiosperm species (86–88%) than to the CAM and C4 forms (76–84%). The putative motif (Lys/Arg-X-X-Ser) for serine kinase, which is conserved in all angiosperm PEPCs analysed so far, is also present in this gymnosperm sequence. Southern blot analysis of spruce genomic DNA under low-stringency conditions using the PEPC cDNA as a hybridization probe showed a complex hybridization pattern, indicating the presence of additional PEPC-related sequences in the genome of the spruce. In contrast, the probe hybridized to only a few bands under high-stringency conditions. Whereas this PEPC gene is highly expressed in roots of seedlings, a low-level expression can be detected in cotyledons and adult needles. A molecular phyiogeny of plant PEPC including the spruce PEPC sequence revealed that the spruce PEPC sequence is clustered with monocot and dicot C3-form PEPCs including the only dicot C4 form characterized so far.
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    Genetic and morphological divergence in theAndrocymbium gramineum complex (Colchicaceae) (1996)
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    Plant systematics and evolution 201 (1996), S. 149-162 
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    Keywords: Colchicaceae ; Androcymbium ; Allozymes ; morphology ; endemism ; evolution ; conservation
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    Notes: Abstract Narrow endemism is a poor predictor of genetic potential in the six taxa that conform theAndrocymbium gramineum complex, as shown by the unexpectedly high values of variability associated with ten allozymic loci and 13 biometrical variables. Although both levels are shown not to be correlated, variability is always concentrated within populations. This result, together with environmental, reproductive and historical data strongly suggests differentiation in local isolates, where changes can be quickly assimilated by stochastic processes. A key implication for conservation is that sampling within the largest population will save effort while neglecting only very low frequency alleles.
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    Luzula sect.Luzula (Juncaceae) in Spain (1996)
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    Plant systematics and evolution 200 (1996), S. 1-11 
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    Keywords: Juncaceae ; Luzula sect.Luzula ; Taxonomy ; karyotypes ; evolution ; Flora of Spain
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    Notes: Abstract A survey ofLuzula sect.Luzula (Juncaceae) with data on karyology, morphology and distribution in the Iberian Peninsula is provided. Names published from the region are evaluated.L. campestris subsp.campestris, L. c. subsp.nevadensis, L. sudetica, L. ×heddae, L. congesta, L. ×danica, L. alpina, L. multiflora, andL. multiflora s. l. are discussed. A diploid taxon with agmatoploid karyotype, morphologically close toL. multiflora andL. alpina, has been revealed and is described asL. multiflora subsp.monticola. L. campestris subsp.iberica has been relegated to the synonymy of subsp.campestris, L. c. subsp.carpetana was found to belong toL. multiflora s. l.
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    Species boundaries, phylogenetic relationships, and ecological differentiation inAnthriscus (Apiaceae) (1996)
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    Plant systematics and evolution 199 (1996), S. 17-32 
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    Keywords: Apiaceae ; Umbelliferae ; Anthriscus ; Taxonomy ; phylogeny ; evolution ; ecological radiation
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    Notes: Abstract Species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships of 17 taxa ofAnthriscus (Apiaceae), with special emphasis on the critical sect.Cacosciadium, were explored using morphological data with principal component analysis, phenetics, and phylogenetics. The analyses did not provide satisfactory resolution of taxa from sect.Cacosciadium and only four species were retained. The total number of species was reduced to nine. Sect.Cacosciadium is distinguished by only two synapomorphies while sects.Anthriscus andCaroides are better supported. Present geographic and ecological variation suggests that the radiation ofAnthriscus occurred through divergence of peripheral isolated populations adapting to different habitats: high montane meadows and screes, shady climax forests, and seasonally dry habitats at lower altitudes. The adaptive significance of particular morphological traits is discussed.
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    Enzyme analysis of genetic variation and relationships in diploid and polyploid taxa ofGalium (Rubiaceae) (1996)
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    Plant systematics and evolution 202 (1996), S. 121-135 
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    Notes: Abstract Allozyme variation at 11 loci (with 37 alleles) was studied electrophoretically in seven outbreeding, closely related diploid and tetraploid taxa, seven from sect.Leptogalium and two from sect.Leiogalium. Whereas the sections are clearly distinct by several different alleles, aggregates, species and subspecies differ only in the frequency or presence/absence of common alleles. The resulting dendrogram suggests phylogenetic relationships and is supported by other multidisciplinary evidence. Tetraploids have originated independently in several groups, and there is evidence for tetrasomic inheritance and thus for autopolyploidy in spite of normal meiotic bivalent pairing and partly suspected hybrid origin. Tetraploids differ from related diploids only little in number of alleles and expected heterozygosity within populations, but clearly exhibit higher numbers of genotypes. This often corresponds to their greater morphological variability, increased adaptive flexibility, and better colonizing capacity compared to related diploids.
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    Cytological variation and evolution withinPelargonium sectionHoarea (Geraniaceae) (1996)
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    Plant systematics and evolution 203 (1996), S. 111-142 
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    Keywords: Pelargonium ; sect.Hoarea ; Chromosomes ; B chromosomes ; Robertsonian translocation ; centric fusion ; evolution ; systematics
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    Notes: Abstract Chromosome numbers of 65 species of sect.Hoarea have been determined. These show three basic chromosome numbers, x = 11, 10 and 9. Only a few species are tetraploid. In five species both diploid and tetraploid cytotypes are reported. Several cases of deviations in chromosome numbers and cytological abnormalities were found, most of these being related to the presence of B chromosomes that occur in eight species. Evidence is presented to suggest that the basic chromosome numbers of x = 10 and x = 9 are derived from x = 11 by centric fusion. Although variation in basic chromosome number withinPelargonium has been the subject of detailed study, this is the first time that evidence has been found for a mechanism of change in basic number, that of centric fusion by Robertsonian translocation. For the species of sect.Hoarea with x = 9, where the evidence for Robertsonian translocation is greatest, this process has probably taken place quite recently. In contrast to results from other sections of the genusPelargonium, the three different basic numbers of sect.Hoarea do not contradict its delimitation as a natural taxon.
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    Can biology make ethics objective? (1996)
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    Biology and philosophy 11 (1996), S. 21-31 
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    Keywords: Morality ; evolution ; justification ; objectivity
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    Notes: Abstract A familiar position regarding the evolution of ethics is that biology can explain the origin of morals but that in doing so it removes the possibility of their having objective justification. This position is set fourth in detail in the writings of Michael Ruse (1986, 1987, 1989, 1990a, 1990b) but it is also taken by many others, notably, Jeffrie Murphy (1982), Andrew Oldenquist (1990), and Allan Gibbard (1990), I argue the contrary view that biology provides a justification of the existence of morals which is objective in the sense of being independent of people's moral views and their particular desires and preferences. Ironically, my argument builds on the very premises which are supposed to undermine the objectivity of morals. But my argument stops short of claiming that biology can give us a basis for justifying some particular system of morals. Drawing on an analogy with social contract theory, I offer a general reason why this more ambitious project cannot be expected to succeed if the argument is pursued along the same lines. Finally, I give reasons why the possibility of objective justification for a particular morality cannot be ruled out in general on evolutionary grounds.
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    Natural selection and self-organization (1996)
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    Biology and philosophy 11 (1996), S. 33-65 
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    Keywords: Background assumptions ; Darwinism ; evolution ; Newtonian dynamics ; nonequilibrium thermodynamics ; nonlinear dynamics ; probability revolution ; selection ; self-organization ; systems dynamics
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    Notes: Abstract The Darwinian concept of natural selection was conceived within a set of Newtonian background assumptions about systems dynamics. Mendelian genetics at first did not sit well with the gradualist assumptions of the Darwinian theory. Eventually, however, Mendelism and Darwinism were fused by reformulating natural selection in statistical terms. This reflected a shift to a more probabilistic set of background assumptions based upon Boltzmannian systems dynamics. Recent developments in molecular genetics and paleontology have put pressure on Darwinism once again. Current work on self-organizing systems may provide a stimulus not only for increased problem solving within the Darwinian tradition, especially with respect to origins of life, developmental genetics, phylogenetic pattern, and energy-flow ecology, but for deeper understanding of the very phenomenon of natural selection itself. Since self-organizational phenomena depend deeply on stochastic processes, self-organizational systems dynamics advance the probability revolution. In our view, natural selection is an emergent phenomenon of physical and chemical selection. These developments suggest that natural selection may be grounded in physical law more deeply than is allowed by advocates of the autonomy of biology, while still making it possible to deny, with autonomists, that evolutionary explanations can be modeled in terms of a deductive relationship between laws and cases. We explore the relationship between, chance, self-organization, and selection as sources of order in biological systems in order to make these points.
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    Explanatory pluralism in evolutionary biology (1996)
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    Biology and philosophy 11 (1996), S. 193-214 
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    Keywords: Adaptationism ; avatars ; competition ; explanation ; evolution ; macroevolution ; optimality ; reductionism ; species selection ; species sorting
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    Notes: Abstract The ontological dependence of one domain on another is compatible with the explanatory autonomy of the less basic domain. That autonomy results from the fact that the relationship between two domains can be very complex. In this paper I distinguish two different types of complexity, two ways the relationship between domains can fail to be transparent, both of which are relevant to evolutionary biology. Sometimes high level explanations preserve a certain type of causal or counterfactual information which would be lost at the lower level; I argue that this is central to the proper understanding of the adaptationist program. Sometimes high level kinds are multiply realised by lower level kinds: I argue that this is central to the understanding of macroevolution.
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    The individuality of the species: A Darwinian theory? — from Buffon to Ghiselin, and back to Darwin (1996)
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    Biology and philosophy 11 (1996), S. 215-244 
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    Keywords: Classes ; classification ; evolution ; Buffon ; Darwin ; Ghiselin ; individuality ; ordering ; concept of species
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    Notes: Abstract Since the 1970s, there has been a tremendous amount of literature on Ghiselin's proposal that “species are individuals”. After recalling the origins and stakes of this thesis in contemporary evolutionary theory, I show that it can also be found in the writings of the French naturalist Buffon in the 18th Century. Although Buffon did not have the conception that one species could be derived from another, there is an interesting similarity between the modern argument and that of Buffon regarding the “individuality of species’. The analogy is strong enough to force us to recognize that genuine evolutionary (or Darwinian) questions might be of secondary importance in the discussion. In consequence, the third section of the paper proposes an alternative schema for the “logical structure” of the Darwinian concept of species. Darwin distinguished the problem of the designation of a concrete species, and the problem of its signification of species within his theory of descent? The resulting notion of species involves a logical structure based on the fusion of the logical operations of classification and ordering. The difficulty — and interest — is that this interpretation of species does not entail any precise operational definition of species; it can only tell us what the ultimate signification of classification is within the theory of descent with modification through natural selection.
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    The extended replicator (1996)
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    Biology and philosophy 11 (1996), S. 377-403 
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    Keywords: development ; developmental systems ; gene ; genetic information ; evolution ; information ; inheritance ; interactor ; Lamarck ; Meme ; replicator ; selection ; unit of selection ; vehicle ; Weismann
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    Notes: Abstract This paper evaluates and criticises the developmental systems conception of evolution and develops instead an extension of the “gene's eye” conception of evolution. We argue (i) Dawkin's attempt to segregate developmental and evolutionary issues about genes is unsatisfactory. On plausible views of development it is arbitrary to single out genes as the units of selection. (ii) The genotype does not carry information about the phenotype in any way that distinguishes the role of the genes in development from that other factors. (iii) There is no simple and general causal criterion which distinguishes the role of genes in development and evolution. (iv) There is, however, an important sense in which genes but not every other developmental factor represent the phenotype. (v) The idea that genes represent features of the phenotype forces us to recognise that genes are not the only, or almost the only, replicators. Many mechanisms of replication are involved in both development and evolution. (vi) A conception of evolutionary history which recognises both genetic and non-genetic replicators, lineages of replicators and interactors has advantages over both the radical rejection of the replicator/interactor distinction and the conservative restriction of replication to genetic replication.
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    Changing conceptions of species (1996)
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    Biology and philosophy 11 (1996), S. 405-420 
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    Keywords: species ; evolution ; natural selection ; gradualism ; punctuated equilibria ; variation ; Lamarck ; Darwin
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    Notes: Abstract Species are thought by many to be important units of evolution. In this paper, I argue against that view. My argument is based on an examination of the role of species in the synthetic theory of evolution. I argue that if one adopts a gradualist view of evolution, one cannot make sense of the claim that species are “units” in the minimal sense needed to claim that they are units of evolution, namely, that they exist as discrete entities over time. My second argument is directed against an appeal to Eldredge and Gould's theory of punctuated equilibria to support the claim that species are units of evolution. If one adopts their view, it may be possible to identify discrete temporal entities that can plausibly be termed ‘species’, but there is no reason to claim that those entities are “units of evolution”. Thus, on two plausible interpretations of the role of natural selection in the process of evolution, species are of no special importance. I then consider some of the reasons why species have been thought to be important evolutionary units by many contemporary evolutionary biologists. Finally, I discuss briefly the implications of this conclusion for evolutionary biology.
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    Naturalism, evidence and creationism: The case of Phillip Johnson (1996)
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    Biology and philosophy 11 (1996), S. 543-559 
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    Keywords: Creationism ; evidence ; evolution ; naturalism ; Phillip Johnson ; scientific methodology
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    Notes: Abstract Phillip Johnson claims that Creationism is a better explanation of the existence and characteristics of biological species than is evolutionary theory. He argues that the only reason biologists do not recognize that Creationist's negative arguments against Darwinism have proven this is that they are wedded to a biased ideological philosophy —Naturalism — which dogmatically denies the possibility of an intervening creative god. However, Johnson fails to distinguish Ontological Naturalism from Methodological Naturalism. Science makes use of the latter and I show how it is not dogmatic but follows from sound requirements for empirical evidential testing. Furthermore, Johnson has no serious alternative type of positive evidence to offer for Creationism, and purely negative argumentation, despite his attempt to legitimate it, will not suffice.
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    Some Nonhuman Animals Can Have Pains in a Morally Relevant Sense (1996)
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    Biology and philosophy 12 (1996), S. 51-71 
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    Keywords: philosophy of mind ; ethics ; animal pain ; Peter Carruthers ; consciousness ; evolution
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    Notes: Abstract In a series of works, Peter Carruthers has argued for the denial of the title proposition. Here, I defend that proposition by offering direct support drawn from relevant sciences and by undercutting Carruthers‘ argument. In doing the latter, I distinguish an intrinsic theory of consciousness from Carruthers‘ relational theory of consciousness. This relational theory has two readings, one of which makes essential appeal to evolutionary theory. I argue that neither reading offers a successful view.
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    A conspectus of the Cladocera of the subterranean waters of the world (1996)
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    Hydrobiologia 325 (1996), S. 1-30 
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    Keywords: subterranean Cladocera ; history ; ecology ; adaptation ; evolution ; biogeography
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    Notes: Abstract A synthesis of current knowledge of the Cladocera living in non-surface waters is provided. For all 94 species and subspecies recorded (Dec. 1994) we give information on their ranges, ecological characteristics, and a review of literature data. We also give a historic survey of the development of concepts, identify categories among groundwater-dwelling species, and discuss their adaptations and the evolutionary lines present. Of the estimated total of c. 450 non-marine Cladocera of the world, c. 20% may occur in underground aquatic habitats, but true groundwater forms (stygobionts or stygobites) are relatively few, possibly not more than 10 species (c. 2.5% of the total). This number may increase, as attention is given to subterranean habitats outside Europe.
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    Types of diapause in Crustacea: definitions, distribution, evolution (1996)
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    Hydrobiologia 320 (1996), S. 15-26 
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    Keywords: Crustacea ; diapause ; photoperiod responses ; evolution
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    Notes: Abstract Definitions of diapause and of the three types of diapause (embryonal, larval and imaginal) as they apply to the Crustacea are given and the distribution of the types among different orders of crustaceans is discussed. A special role of diapause as a way to escape competition among ecologically similar species is noted and the significance of photoperiod responses as a pace-maker of the biorhythmical function of diapause for a wide range of species is demonstrated. A common unspecific regression for the description of oxygen consumption with duration of diapause in crustaceans of different sizes, different orders and different types of diapause is suggested. A special significance of embryonal diapause for the adaptation of palaeo-, meso- and neolimnic species of crustaceans that migrated from the sea into inland waterbodies is postulated.
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    Leeches (Oligochaeta?: Euhirudinea), their phylogeny and the evolution of life-history strategies (1996)
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    Hydrobiologia 334 (1996), S. 277-285 
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    Keywords: leech ; oligochaete ; parasite ; evolution ; phylogeny
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    Notes: Abstract Powerful tests of adaptational hypotheses can be made in the context of well-supported cladograms by investigating the most parsimonious transformation of intrinsic or extrinsic factors to explain their distribution across taxa in a cladogram. Such tests are used here to discover patterns of life-history evolution in leeches; in particular in relation to exploitation of terrestrial and aquatic habitats, parental care and resource utilization. Moreover, the relationships among leeches, acanthobdellids and branchiobdellids is reaffirmed as is their collective placement within the oligochaetes.
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    Diapause, a potent force in the evolution of freshwater crustaceans (1996)
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    Hydrobiologia 320 (1996), S. 1-14 
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    Keywords: diapause ; freshwater Crustacea ; antiquity ; diversity ; evolution
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    Notes: Abstract After a brief historical review of the discovery of diapause in freshwater crustaceans, its dramatic nature in certain cyclopoid copepods, in which diapausing individuals may occur at densities of 〉 106 per m2, is used to illustrate the enormous ecological significance of the phenomenon. Some of the problems presented by dispause in cyclopoid copepods are noted, including the different behaviour in different lakes of what appears to be a single species. Different physiological cues or different genetic endowments are clearly involved. The wider incidence of diapause in freshwater copepods and ostracods is noted. Among freshwater crustaceans it it the Branchiopoda that have universally adopted diapause, always at the egg stage. Even such an ancient order as the Anostraca, perhaps the most primitive of all crustaceans, produces elaborately constructed resting eggs that are capable of cryptobiosis, can remain viable in a dry state for long periods, and can tolerate extreme conditions. The nature of branchiopod resting eggs is briefly reviewed. Of these, only those of the Anomopoda are protected by containers derived from the parental carapace. These are mechanically complex in the most advanced species but, as shown by fossils, are extremely ancient structures. Factors initiating the onset and termination of diapause in branchiopods are briefly noted, and the process of hatching of resting eggs is outlined.
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    Larval development of Octomeris sulcata Nilsson-Cantell (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Chthamalidae) from Japan and Korea (1996)
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    Hydrobiologia 325 (1996), S. 65-76 
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    Keywords: Larval development ; chthamalid barnacle ; Octomeris sulcata ; food preference ; evolution ; gnathobase
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    Notes: Abstract Embryos obtained from gravid adults of the chthamalid barnacle Octomeris sulcata Nilsson-Cantell from Japan and Korea were cultured through six naupliar stages to the cyprid and juvenile barnacle stage in laboratory conditions, fed either the diatom Skeletonema costatum (Grev.) Cleve or the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum (Pavillard) Schiller. The nauplii were planktotrophic and, depending on diet, reached the cyprid stage 9 or 17 days after hatching in individual cultures at 22 °C with 24 h illumination. The survival rate was higher and the duration of the naupliar stages was shorter when fed P. minimum rather than S. costatum. This is probably due to the presence of feathered setae on the antennae. Feathered or plumose setae in nauplii of different cirripede taxa are apparently linked to the type of phytoplankton in the seas when these taxa first evolved. The larval stages of O. sulcata are described, and morphological differences between larvae reared from Japanese andKorean adults are compared. The polygonal cephalic shield and unilobed labrum, a pair of posterior shield spines after naupliar stage IV, feathered setae and a hispid seta on the coxa of the antenna, a cuspidate seta on the mandible, and the gnathobase of the antenna are important in distinguishing the nauplii of this species from other species, including Chthamalidae.
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    Comparative fluorescencein situ hybridization mapping of primate chromosomes withAlu polymerase chain reaction generated probes from human/rodent somatic cell hybrids (1996)
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    Chromosome research 4 (1996), S. 38-42 
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    Keywords: chromosome ; evolution ; FISH ; intrachromosomal rearrangements ; phylogeny ; subregional chromosome painting
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    Notes: Abstract We have usedAlu polymerase chain reaction generated probes from rearranged human/rodent somatic cell hybrids for fluorescencein situ hybridization and comparative mapping of some intrachromosomal changes in the karyotypes of great apes (Pan troglodytes, P. paniscus, Gorilla gorilla Pongo pygmaeus), a gibbon (Hylobates lar), and an Old World monkey (Macaca fuscata). Probes containing chromosomes 2 and 18 fragments confirmed inversions already suggested by the banding pattern of great ape homologues. However, a chromosome 3 fragment showed complex rearrangements in the gibbon and macaque karyotype which were previously not well defined from banding. ‘Subchromosomal painting’ will allow the identification of intrachromosomal changes on the basis of DNA homology and provides a powerful method to study karyological and genomic evolution.
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    Multiple selection responses in house mice bidirectionally selected for thermoregulatory nest-building behavior: Crosses of replicate lines (1996)
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    Behavior genetics 26 (1996), S. 439-446 
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    Keywords: Heterosis ; nest-building behavior ; Mus domesticus ; selection ; evolution
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    Notes: Abstract Replicate high-selected, control, and low-selected lines were crossed at generation 46 of bidirectional selection for thermoregulatory nest-building behavior. Previous analysis of the lines at their limits had revealed multiple responses to uniform selection, where each of the four selected lines responded differently to reverse selection (Laffan, 1989). The reciprocal F1 crosses showed significant heterosis for nest-building behavior compared to the contemporaneous generations of the parental lines. This pattern of heterosis in all three crosses is consistent with the finding that nest-building behavior in each of the four replicate lines had a different genetic basis, in spite of the phenotypic similarity between the two replicate lines in the high and low direction of nesting. This heterosis effect and the larger number of young weaned in all three crosses compared to their respective contemporaneous generation of the parental lines also support earlier findings that larger nests are closely related to fitness.
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    Genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity in a trophically polymorphic population of pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) (1996)
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    Evolutionary ecology 10 (1996), S. 631-652 
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    Keywords: common environment ; reciprocal transplant ; genetic differentiation ; phenotypic plasticity ; trophic polymorphism ; evolution ; specialization ; fish
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    Notes: Summary Adaptive variation can exist at a variety of scales in biological systems, including among species, among local populations of a single species and among individuals within a single population. Trophic or resource polymorphisms in fishes are a good example of the lowest level of this hierarchy. In lakes without bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus), pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) can be trophically polymorphic, including a planktivorous limnetic form found in the pelagic habitat, in addition to the usual benthic form found in the littoral zone. In this paper we examine the degree to which morphological differences between the two forms are caused by genetic differences versus phenotypic plasticity. Adults from pelagic and littoral sites in Paradox Lake, NY, were bred separately and their progeny were raised in cages both in the open water and shallow water habitats of an artificial pond. The experimental design permitted two tests of genetic differences between the breeding stocks (in open and shallow water cages, respectively) and two tests of phenotypic plasticity (in the limnetic and benthic offspring, respectively). Limnetic progeny were more fusiform than benthic progeny raised in the same habitat. In addition, progeny of both stocks displayed limnetic-type characteristics when raised in the open water and benthic-type characteristics in the shallow water. Thus, genetic differences and phenotypic plasticity both contributed to the trophic polymorphism. Phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation accounted for 53 and 14%, respectively, of the variation in morphology. This study addresses the nature of subtle phenotypic differences among individuals from a single population that is embedded within a complex community, a condition that is likely to be the norm for most natural populations, as opposed to very large differences that have evolved in relatively few populations that reside in species-poor environments.
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    Fish communities in the African Great Lakes (1996)
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    Environmental biology of fishes 45 (1996), S. 219-235 
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    Keywords: Ecology ; Behaviour ; Evolution ; Cichlids ; Fisheries ; Conservation
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    Notes: Synopsis Ecological conditions in tropical lacustrine systems are considered by focusing on the evolution, maintenance, exploitation and vulnerability of fish communities in the African Great Lakes. The exceptionally high biodiversities in the littoral/sublittoral zones of the very ancient, deep, clear, permanently stratified rift lakes Tanganyika and Malawi, are contrasted with the simpler systems in their pelagic zones, also with biodiversity in the much younger, shallower Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake.
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    Tyrosine hydroxylase-containing neurons in the spinal cord of the chicken. I. Development and analysis of catecholamine synthesis capabilities (1996)
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    Cellular and molecular neurobiology 16 (1996), S. 625-648 
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    Keywords: tyrosine hydroxylase immunocytochemistry ; spinal cord ; chick embryo ; dopamine immunocytochemistry ; evolution ; CSF-contacting neurons
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    Notes: Summary 1. The development of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive (TH-IR) neurons was examined in the spinal cord of the chick embryo and hatchling. 2. Two groups of TH-IR cells are described, both of which appear to reach their full complement in number relatively late in embryonic development. One group is comprised of numerous cells located ventral to the central canal which make direct contact with the lumen of the canal. The other group consists of large multipolar neurons that reside in the dorsal horn, more commonly along the outer margin of the gray matter within lamina I and II, and less frequently deeper in the dorsal horn within medial portions of laminae V, VI or VII. 3. TH-IR cells ventral to the central canal in the chick are comparable in location to dopamine (DA)-containing spinal cord cells in lower vertebrate species. In contrast, the dorsally-suited TH-IR cells in the chick are known only to occur in similar positions in higher vertebrates. Therefore, the chick is novel in that the presence ofboth groups of TH-IR cells appearing together in significant numbers within the spinal cord has not been shown in any other species studied to date. 4. The TH-containing cells in the chick cord do not appear to contain the catecholamine biosynthesis enzymes, DBH or PNMT. Moreover, using anti-DA immunocytochemistry, neither group of TH-IR cells demonstrated detectable levels of DA in control animals nor in animals pretreated with inhibitors of MAO (MAO-I). 5. However, a difference was noted though between the two TH-IR cell groups in terms of their responses to exogenously supplied L-DOPA, the immediate precursor to DA. With the administration of L-DOPA and a MAO-I to chick hatchlings, cells in the region ventral to the central canal stained intensely for DA. In contrast, the same treatment failed to produce DA-immunoreactive cells in the dorsal horn. 6. One reasonable hypothesis for these results is that the TH-IR cells ventral to the central canal contain an active form of AADC, the enzyme that converts L-DOPA to DA. With this interpretation, if these cells can produce DA from L-DOPA, yet do not appear to synthesize DA endogenously, it would appear that the TH enzyme contained in these cells occurs in aninactive form. Whether the TH enzyme in the dorsally located immunoreactive cells is also inactive is uncertain since it remains unclear whether they contain AADC.
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    Cytogenetic and molecular analysis of the satellite DNA of the genusCtenomys (Rodentia Octodontidae) from Uruguay (1996)
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    Chromosome research 4 (1996), S. 335-339 
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    ISSN: 1573-6849
    Keywords: Ctenomys ; evolution ; heterochromatin ; rodents ; satellite DNA
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The genus of subterranean rodentsCtenomys presents the widest range of variability in diploid number among mammals (from2n=10 to2n=70). In Uruguay, this variability is observed in karyotypes with2n=44, 50 or 58 and two geographically isolated populations with 70 chromosomes but different karyotypic structure. The last three populations were analyzed in the present study. They present a satellite DNA, which was isolated from genomic DNA afterAlul digestion.In situ hybridization showed that this satellite DNA is located in the centromeric region of a few chromosomes, coincident with Hoechst 33258 staining and C-banding patterns. A similar satellite DNA was detected in Argentinian species of this genus. We established that, in spite of differences in number of positive heterochromatic blocks per karyotype, the C value is the same in the three populations studied. The nature and possible evolutionary path of this repeated DNA is discussed.
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    Clusters of identical new mutation in the evolutionary landscape (1996)
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    Genetica 98 (1996), S. 149-160 
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    ISSN: 1573-6857
    Keywords: Drosophila melanogaster ; evolution ; mosaics ; mutation ; premeiotic clusters
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract In contrast to the common assumption that each new mutant results from a unique, independent mutation event, clusters of identical premeiotic mutant alleles are common. Clusters can produce large numbers of related individuals carrying identical copies of the same new genetic change. By entering the gene pool in multiple copies at one time, clusters can influence fundamental processes of population genetics. Here we report evidence that clusters can increase the arrival and fixation probabilities and can lengthen the average time to extinction of new mutations. We also suggest it may be necessary to reconsider other fundamental elements of population genetic theory.
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    The U.S. research university and the joint venture: Evolution of an institution (1996)
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    Review of industrial organization 11 (1996), S. 629-653 
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    ISSN: 1573-7160
    Keywords: universities ; institutions ; evolution ; joint ventures ; research and development
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    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Abstract The U. S. research university, as an institution, has responded to changes in its environment, including significant participation with business firms in joint R&D ventures, in such a way as to preserve the essence of the academic ideal of disinterested pursuit of knowledge, although with some significant compromises. In an evolutionary sense, these responses have been characterized far more by adapations to external change than by conscious attempts to influence these changes.
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