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Could you help to identify this fish species?

Fishermen of some areas of Bangladesh claim to catch this freshwater species. This seems to be Anabus sp. with golden body color (probably due to the expression of recessive allele?). However,...

02 March 2013 3,508 12 View

Are you familiar with the species in the photo?

One of my teachers Dr. M. Manjurul Alam took photo of a rare orange colored fish looks like Channa sp. This fish was caught in Bangladeshi water. What do you think about the strange color?...

02 March 2013 1,209 5 View

Which materials and methods should I use to study the impacts (climatic and man made) of mangrove on fishery stocks?

I plan to research the impacts (climatic and man made) of mangrove on fishery stocks. It would be wonderful if I could get some of your expert advice to make my research more precise and accurate.

01 February 2013 6,918 4 View

Do you think reviewing scientific articles should remain voluntary or should the reviewers be paid by the publishers?

Though reviewing of scientific paper is the most important, tough and time consuming job in the publication process it remained unpaid. It is often found that the reviewing process of scientific...

01 February 2013 4,084 16 View

Should there be any time restrictions for the journals either to accept or reject any submitted scientific articles?

In many cases, students, researchers require quick results from the journals about their submitted articles as it is necessary for their career, degree, scholarship or other reasons. If it is...

01 February 2013 1,453 16 View

What will be the impact of climate change in shifting the mangrove fisheries?

The sea level is rising due to climate change and this will have definite impact on mangrove ecosystem. Some part of the mangrove will be eradicated and some part will be migrated inwards. Under...

08 September 2012 9,677 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

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01 March 2021 3,905 5 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

Is there a method of determining feed digestibility without the need to re-pellet the feed?

I am aiming to determine the ADC values of a commercial fish feed, but I do not have a steam pelleter or extruder available to me. Ideally, the pellets could be coated with some inert marker....

28 February 2021 7,967 3 View

How to culture mouse pheochromocytoma cells (MPC)?

Hi Everyone, Has anyone here worked with MPC cell line? Any tips or tricks? I am just venturing into cell biology and any advice on this topic would be highly appreciated. Thank you so much. Niusha

22 February 2021 3,891 2 View

I can detect my protein but the encoding DNA sequence has stop codons within. Should I ignore the stop codons?

I constructed a synthetic DNA library (scFv, VH-VL orientation) with a 3' reporter and 8x histag. I cloned and expressed this gene following which I performed an ELISA. The ELISA results suggested...

19 February 2021 7,006 5 View

Can I follow Researchers from Teaching and testing areas?

I want Researchers from Educational Measurement and Evaluation, relating to teaching, learning , academic performance and test validation

18 February 2021 4,757 13 View