Living in a risky world: the onset and ontogeny of an integrated antipredator phenotype in a coral reef fish

Prey individuals with complex life-histories often cannot predict the type of risk environment to which they will be exposed at each of their life stages. Because the level of investment in defences should match local risk conditions, we predict that these individuals should have the ability to modulate the expression of an integrated defensive phenotype, but this switch in expression should occur at key life-history transitions. We manipulated background level of risk in juvenile damselfish for four days following settlement (a key life-history transition) or 10 days post-settlement, and measured a suite of physiological and behavioural variables over 2 weeks. We found that settlement-stage fish exposed to high-risk conditions displayed behavioural and physiological alterations consistent with high-risk phenotypes, which gave them a survival advantage when exposed to predators. These changes were maintained for at least 2 weeks. The same exposure in post-settlement fish failed to elicit a change in some traits, while the expression of other traits disappeared within a week. Our results are consistent with those expected from phenotypic resonance. Expression of antipredator traits may be masked if individuals are not exposed to certain conditions at key ontogenetic stages

Avaliação genómica nas espécies pecuárias

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Screening for colorectal cancer after pancreatoduodenectomy for ampullary cancer

Background: In some Dutch pancreatic surgery centers, patients who underwent pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) for ampullary cancer undergo surveillance for colorectal cancer (CRC), since an association is suggested in contemporary literature. This study aimed to examine the CRC incidence after PD for ampullary cancer in four pancreatic surgery centers and a Dutch nationwide cohort. Methods: All patients who underwent resection of ampullary cancer from 2005 through 2017 at four centers were included. All colonoscopies and CRC diagnoses in these patients were recorded. In addition all PDs for ampullary cancer in the Dutch Pathology Registry (2000–2017) were recorded along with the CRC diagnoses and compared with an age, sex, and year-matched cohort. Results: Out of 287 included patients by the four centers, 11% underwent a colonoscopy within one year after PD. Eight (2.7%) were diagnosed with CRC before PD and two (0.7%), at 14 and 72 months after PD. In the nationwide cohort comparison, the CRC incidence was similar before (2.6% versus 1.9%, P = 0.424) and after surgery (2.1% versus 3.1%, P = 0.237). Within one year after PD, the incidence was 0.3% compared to 0.6% in the matched controls (P = 0.726). Conclusions: The current study could not find an increased risk of CRC in patients with resected ampullary cancer. Therefore, there is insufficient justification to screen for CRC in patients with resected ampullary cancer

Measurements of differential production cross sections for a Z boson in association with jets in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV

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Charged-particle nuclear modification factors in PbPb and pPb collisions at √=sNN=5.02 TeV

The spectra of charged particles produced within the pseudorapidity window |η| < 1 at √ sNN = 5.02 TeV are measured using 404 µb −1 of PbPb and 27.4 pb−1 of pp data collected by the CMS detector at the LHC in 2015. The spectra are presented over the transverse momentum ranges spanning 0.5 < pT < 400 GeV in pp and 0.7 < pT < 400 GeV in PbPb collisions. The corresponding nuclear modification factor, RAA, is measured in bins of collision centrality. The RAA in the 5% most central collisions shows a maximal suppression by a factor of 7–8 in the pT region of 6–9 GeV. This dip is followed by an increase, which continues up to the highest pT measured, and approaches unity in the vicinity of pT = 200 GeV. The RAA is compared to theoretical predictions and earlier experimental results at lower collision energies. The newly measured pp spectrum is combined with the pPb spectrum previously published by the CMS collaboration to construct the pPb nuclear modification factor, RpA, up to 120 GeV. For pT > 20 GeV, RpA exhibits weak momentum dependence and shows a moderate enhancement above unity

Sermoens e praticas

Sign.: [parágrafo], A-Z, 2A-2Z, 3A-3H, 3IPort. con grav. xilTexto a dúas col. con apostillas marxinai

Effects of Various Fresh Meat Storage Methods on the Color of Cooked Ground Pork

The effects of microbial growth in raw materials on cooked pork color were investigated. In two trials with sow meat held aerobically at 2C for 3 weeks, microbial load reached spoilage levels (107 cfu/g), pH increased to 6.46, and samples cooked to 71C had red exudate, shown by absorption spectroscopy to contain myoglobin and cytochrome c. Samples cooked to 82C also received high panel ratings for red color, due to red, flocculent precipitate in the exudate, but undenatured myoglobin levels were low. In sow meat held frozen or vacuum-packaged at 2C, pH after 3 weeks was 6.03 and 6.18, and plate counts were 104 and 107, respectively, but exudates after cooking were much less red. In five trials with fresh pork legs, total plate counts also reached 107 cfu/g by 3 weeks storage, and pH increased to 6.37, but cooked samples were not red. Higher myoglobin levels in sow meat probably accounted for the red color and level of undenatured myoglobin remaining after cooking of high pH, spoiled samples