Sea urchins are dominant members of rocky temperate reefs around the world.They often occur in cavities within the rock, and fit so tightly, it is natural to assume they sculpted these "pits." However, there are no experimental data demonstrating they bore pits.If they do, what are the rates and consequences of bioerosion to nearshore systems? We s
Background Frailty exhibits a high prevalence in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and is associated with adverse health-related outcomes, including falls and fractures.Available studies do not address whether frailty is associated with temporal changes in BMD.We evaluated this issue by analyzing the follow-up dual energy X-ray absorptiometry
Recent observations of jets in solar Pottery Glazes coronal holes that include multi-wavelength data such as EUV movies have shown that most of those jets are not driven in the way suggested by the standard model.The standard model proposes that new, closed magnetic field emerges from below the solar surface to interact with already-existing magnet
As a major staple food, maize (Zea mays) Miscellaneous Skate is critical to food security.Shifting environmental pressures increasingly hamper crop defense capacities, causing expanded harvest loss.Specialized labdane-type diterpenoids are key components of maize chemical defense and ecological adaptation.Labdane diterpenoid biosynthesis most commo