0.2 g of tender leaves were taken, washed with distilled water to remove the surface dust, and then dried with filter paper and placed in a pre-cooled (4°C) petri dish ... (0.01 mm), and the fruit ...

The authors' demonstration that impaired olfactory perception reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to parasitism is solid. These findings highlight the ecological significance ...

A plasma surface treatment machine (Diener Electronic, Ebhausen, Germany) activated the PDMS and the glass surfaces. The PDMS was then pressed ... a tunable pump laser energy set at 60 and 70 μJ/mm 2 ...

While host phenotypic manipulation by parasites is a widespread phenomenon, whether tumors, which can be likened to parasite entities, can also manipulate their hosts is not known. Theory predicts ...

Seedlings were aseptically transferred to a Petri dish lined with sterile distilled water to prevent wilting, and the roots were removed. The remaining main shoot (±8-10 nodes) was split into an upper ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of serious nosocomial infections, and recurrent MRSA infections primarily result from the survival of persister cells after ...

1Cancer Ecology Center, James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland. 2Cellular and Molecular Medicine Graduate Training Program, Johns Hopkins ...

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom ...