MHC Rabbit Genome Annotation? Domain annotation of each MHC Rabbit Gene?

I want to find a database(s) or a method where I can find and bulk download all the rabbit MHC genes and domain annotation. In humans using Ensembl, all MHC genes have names and domains but in...

28 January 2021 7,722 2 View

What really is "Prechordal Plate"?

There is too much discrepency among the textbooks of vertebrate embryology. There are two interpretations of the term "Prechordal plate" in different books: It is the cranial most part of the...

24 November 2020 8,537 1 View

Anyone an expert in algae in Victoria, Australia?

I found this (very pretty) algae (see picture) in a bore-fed and suburban catchment run-off fed, human made lake (Newport Lakes) in Newport, Victoria, Australia. I'm a vertebrate zoologist with a...

09 November 2020 7,587 3 View

Which is the importance of fixing (e.g. bivalvia) haemocytes and use anti-clotting solutions in flow cytometry?

I am trying to optimize a flow cytometry method to characterize mytilus spp. haemocytes. In literature I found that someone, to avoid clotting, use anti-clotting solutions or dilute and fix the...

05 November 2020 2,522 4 View

Sex-specific Occupancy modeling?

I want to employ Occupancy and Detection probabilitiy estimates for a large vertebrate species. Do you recommend using and running different models with presence-absence matrices by sex (i have...

28 July 2020 6,142 3 View

What is the risk of entomopathogenic diseases acquiring the ability to succesfully infect humans?

I broadly understand the scale at which Zoonoses develop, but would be deeply curious to understand if there is a similar risk of entomopathogenic diseases jumping the biological border to...

27 July 2020 2,239 3 View

Where to find predator:prey mass data (for terrestrial carnivores)?

I'm looking for datasets (or databases) in which the body mass of predator and prey are presented. I'm specifically interested in terrestrial predators (snakes, mammals, birds). An example of is...

16 June 2020 2,453 9 View

Why ecology system allows virus exsit?

27 February 2020 5,293 3 View

Is there any alternative for glycogen solution in DNA precipitation?

Hi I am a master student working on Parrafin-embedded tissue to extract DNA and I could't find glycogen 20mg/ml solution used in the DNA precipitation an I am wondering if there is any...

18 February 2020 1,504 1 View

Why ecology system allows virus exsit?

01 February 2020 8,512 3 View