Pristionchus pacificus
The pax 3 gene is involved in vulva formation in Pristionchus pacificus and is a target of the Hox gene lin 39
... and Pristionchus pacificus result in a vulvaless phenotype because presumptive vulva precursor cells adopt non-vulval ...and Pristionchus; in ...P. pacificus, they die as a result of ...
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Natural variation of outcrossing in the hermaphroditic nematode Pristionchus pacificus
... P. pacificus are about half of those of ...P. pacificus, additional factors could also play a role. P. pacificus might be producing fewer sperm as an adaptation for earlier ...P. pacificus is ...
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Two independent sulfation processes regulate mouth form plasticity in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus
... P. pacificus, the effects of bisphenol A, tyramine and dopamine extend the number and type of bioactive compounds involved in mouth-form ...P. pacificus animals, serotonin, but not dopamine, is involved in ...
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A Bacterial Artificial Chromosome-Based Genetic Linkage Map of the Nematode Pristionchus pacificus
... of human DNA in Escherichia coli using an F-factor-based vector. Srinivasan, J., A. Pires-daSilva, A. Gutierrez, M. Zheng, B. Jung- Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89: 8794–8797. blut et al., 2001 Microevolutionary analysis ...
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Characterization of Genetic Diversity in the Nematode Pristionchus pacificus from Population-Scale Resequencing Data
... nematode Pristionchus pacificus is an established model system for comparative studies with Caenorhabditis elegans in developmental biology, ecology, and population ...
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Opposing Forces of A/T-Biased Mutations and G/C-Biased Gene Conversions Shape the Genome of the Nematode Pristionchus pacificus
... ABSTRACT Base substitution mutations are a major source of genetic novelty and mutation accumulation line (MAL) studies revealed a nearly universal AT bias in de novo mutation spectra. While a comparison of de novo ...
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Conserved behavioral and genetic mechanisms in the pre-hatching molt of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus
... To determine if the observed pre-hatching behaviors were similar to the behaviors associated with molting in post-hatching P. pacificus, we tracked an additional popu- lation of worms from the post-hatching J2 ...
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Isolation of naturally associated bacteria of necromenic Pristionchus nematodes and fitness consequences
... genus Pristionchus that have a strong association with scarab ...beetles. Pristionchus has a different feeding strategy than Caenorhabditis and meta-genomic 16S sequence analysis of Pristionchus ...
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Predatory feeding behaviour in Pristionchus nematodes is dependent on phenotypic plasticity and induced by serotonin
... P. pacificus predatory behaviour. Pristionchus pacificus predators were starved for 4, 8, 24, 48 h and subsequently fed on ...P. pacificus predators feeding on ...P. pacificus biting ...
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A species specific nematocide that results in terminal embryogenesis
... nematode Pristionchus pacificus and related nematodes live on various species of beetles and wait until their hosts die before resuming reproductive development to feed on the microorganisms growing on the ...
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Liposome based transfection enhances RNAi and CRISPR 1 mediated mutagenesis in non model nematode systems
... Here we report that by combining liposome-based technology with microinjection into the gonad, functional genomic techniques become feasible in non-model nematode species. With this method, RNAi and CRISPR-Cas9 ...
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Molecular Evidence of Bartonella spp in Questing Adult Ixodes pacificus Ticks in California
... I. pacificus from California has been reported to be approximately 2% (29, ...I. pacificus adult ticks was captured by flagging vegetation from areas in Santa Clara County, ...
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Biffarius pacificus, a new species of the Callianassidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea) from northern Chile
... Recently, Heard and Manning (2000) differenti- ated the closest related genus Pseudobiffarius from Biffarius. The main morphological differences sepa- rating Pseudobiffarius from Biffarius are: A1 pedun- cle longer than ...
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Wedge tailed Shearwaters, Puffinus pacificus, and development on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
... Rosier, J. & Dyer, P. 2008 (31:x): Wedge-tailed Shearwaters, Pujfinus pacificus, and development on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania l 42(1): ...
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Plastic ingestion by Flesh footed Shearwaters, Puffinus carneipes, and Wedge tailed Shearwaters, Puffinus pacificus
... The Flesh-footed Shearwater, Pujfinus carneipesGould, 1844, is a pelagic seabird that breeds in dense colonies on islands in New Zealand and in southwestern Australia, as well as on St Paul and Lord Howe islands ...
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Cetacean sightings, mixed-species assemblages and the easternmost record of Indopacetus pacificus from the northern Indian ocean
... I. pacificus and ...I. pacificus appeared to be surfacing after a deep dive as they surfaced at a steep angle, with visible blows, which aided species identification along with their bulbous melon, large ...
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Effectiveness of parental provisioning under variable oceanographic conditions along the Western Australian coast in two shearwater species: the little shearwater Puffinus assimilis tunneyi and the wedge-tailed shearwater Puffinus pacificus
... Consequently, an optimal amount of food matching the developmental needs of the nestling may be met during optimal conditions using an optimal pattern of provisioning, whilst deviations [r] ...
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Microspectrophotometry of visual pigments and oil droplets in a marine bird, the wedge tailed shearwater Puffinus pacificus: topographic variations in photoreceptor spectral characteristics
... received considerable attention (Sivak, 1976; Sivak et al., 1977, 1987; Martin and Brooke, 1991; Martin, 1998, 1999; Martin and Prince, 2001), only limited and partial data are available on their photoreceptor spectral ...
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Observations on the spawning behavior, egg masses and paralarval development of the ommastrephid squid Todarodes pacificus in a laboratory mesocosm
... T. pacificus paralarvae is attributable to translocation and starvation (Okutani, 1983; Vidal et ...T. pacificus was maintained in a tank for 10 days, which was three additional days after the complete ...
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Vertebrate fauna associates of the Wedge tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus, colonies of Rottnest Island: influence of an ecosystem engineer
... Wedge-tailed Shearwaters, Puffinus pacificus (J.F. Gmelin, 1789), are pelagic seabirds that nest in burrows on islands in the Indian and Pacific oceans. They have been described as ecosystem engineers because they ...
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