HETEROPHIL/LYMPHOCYTE ALTERATIONS AS A MEASURE OF STRESS IN AMERICAN ALLIGATORS IN RELATION TO ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE IN A LOUISIANA INTERMEDIATE MARSH

Numerous anthropogenic factors represent environmental threats to Gulf Coast wetland ecosystems and associated fauna.American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) have been subject to long-term management and used as ecological and physiological indicators of habitat quality in response to anthropogenic events and stochastic natural disasters.Th

The scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini), a critically endangered species with a decreasing global population, is characterised by its occurrence in large schools.Such schools are still observed today in the Pacific Ocean, but this is generally not the case in the Atlantic Ocean, and in the Cayman Islands not since the 1970s.Here we report a

Abstract Background The B-BOX (BBX) proteins have important functions in regulating plant growth and development.In plants, the BBX gene family has been identified in several plants, such as rice, Arabidopsis and tomato.However, there still lack a genome-wide survey of BBX genes in pear.Results In the present study, a total of 25 Default BBX genes