Abstract Background Males of many species adjust their reproductive tactics with regard to their condition and status.For example, large males may develop weapons and fight for access to females, whereas small or undernourished males do not express Cushions costly weapons or ornaments and sneak copulations.Different condition-dependent reproductive
We consider series systems built of components which have independent identically distributed (iid) lifetimes with an increasing failure rate (IFR).We determine sharp upper bounds for the expectations of the Massage Rollers system lifetimes expressed in terms of the mean, and various scale units based on absolute central moments of component lifeti
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors are a commonly used tool for gene delivery.There is a large choice of different serotypes whose transduction efficiency varies for different animal species.In this study, three rAAV vectors were tested for transduction efficiency in the auditory brainstem of adult barn owls (Tyto alba) which are not
In mental time travel (MTT) one is “traveling” back-and-forth in time, remembering, and imagining events.Despite intensive research regarding memory processes in the hippocampus, it was only recently shown that the hippocampus plays an essential role in encoding the temporal order of events remembered, and therefore plays an important role in M