The transition from the juvenile to adult phase in plants is controlled by diverse exogenous and endogenous cues such as age, day length, light, nutrients, and temperature.Previous studies have shown that the gradual decline in microRNA156 (miR156) with age promotes the expression of adult traits.However, how age temporally regulates the abundance
Evolutionary and Biogeographical History of Penguins (Sphenisciformes): Review of the Dispersal Patterns and Adaptations in a Geologic and Paleoecological Context
Despite its current low diversity, the penguin clade (Sphenisciformes) is one of the groups of birds with the most complete fossil record.Likewise, from the evolutionary point of view, it is an interesting group given the adaptations developed for marine life and the extreme climatic occupation capacity that some species have shown.In the present c
Two Separation-of-Function Isoforms of Human TPP1 Dictate Telomerase Regulation in Somatic and Germ Cells
Summary: Telomerase replicates chromosome ends in germ and somatic stem cells to facilitate their continued proliferation.Telomerase action depends on the telomeric protein TPP1, which recruits telomerase to telomeres and facilitates processive DNA synthesis.Here, we identify separation-of-function long (TPP1-L) and short (TPP1-S) isoforms of TPP1
Using Bidirectional Associative Memory Neural Networks to Solve the N-bit Task
Nowadays, artificial neural networks can easily solve the N-bit parity problem.However, each time a different level must be learned, the network must be Hand Mixers retrained.This, combined with the exponential increase of learning trials required as N grows, make these models too different from how their biological counterpart solves them.This is