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An enigmatic microorganism from the Upper Pennsylvanian Grand-Croix cherts (Saint-Etienne Basin, France)
Microfungi from the upper Visean (Mississippian) of central France: Structure and development of the sporocarp Mycocarpon cinctum nov. sp.
Sphenophyllum (Sphenophyllales) leaves colonized by fungi from the Upper Pennsylvanian Grand-Croix cherts of central France
Relative entropy minimizing noisy non-linear neural network to approximate stochastic processes
A method is provided for designing and training noise-driven recurrent neural
networks as models of stochastic processes. The method unifies and generalizes
two known separate modeling approaches, Echo State Networks (ESN) and Linear
Inverse Modeling (LIM), under the common principle of relative entropy
minimization. The power of the new method is demonstrated on a stochastic
approximation of the El Nino phenomenon studied in climate research
On the von Karman-Howarth equations for Hall MHD flows
The von Karman-Howarth equations are derived for three-dimensional (3D) Hall
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the case of an homogeneous and isotropic
turbulence. From these equations, we derive exact scaling laws for the
third-order correlation tensors. We show how these relations are compatible
with previous heuristic and numerical results. These multi-scale laws provide a
relevant tool to investigate the non-linear nature of the high frequency
magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind or, more generally, in any plasma
where the Hall effect is important.Comment: 11 page
Biased gene conversion and GC-content evolution in the coding sequences of reptiles and vertebrates.
Mammalian and avian genomes are characterized by a substantial spatial heterogeneity of GC-content, which is often interpreted as reflecting the effect of local GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC), a meiotic repair bias that favors G and C over A and T alleles in high-recombining genomic regions. Surprisingly, the first fully sequenced nonavian sauropsid (i.e., reptile), the green anole Anolis carolinensis, revealed a highly homogeneous genomic GC-content landscape, suggesting the possibility that gBGC might not be at work in this lineage. Here, we analyze GC-content evolution at third-codon positions (GC3) in 44 vertebrates species, including eight newly sequenced transcriptomes, with a specific focus on nonavian sauropsids. We report that reptiles, including the green anole, have a genome-wide distribution of GC3 similar to that of mammals and birds, and we infer a strong GC3-heterogeneity to be already present in the tetrapod ancestor. We further show that the dynamic of coding sequence GC-content is largely governed by karyotypic features in vertebrates, notably in the green anole, in agreement with the gBGC hypothesis. The discrepancy between third-codon positions and noncoding DNA regarding GC-content dynamics in the green anole could not be explained by the activity of transposable elements or selection on codon usage. This analysis highlights the unique value of third-codon positions as an insertion/deletion-free marker of nucleotide substitution biases that ultimately affect the evolution of proteins
Biased gene conversion and GC-content evolution in the coding sequences of reptiles and vertebrates.
Mammalian and avian genomes are characterized by a substantial spatial heterogeneity of GC-content, which is often interpreted as reflecting the effect of local GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC), a meiotic repair bias that favors G and C over A and T alleles in high-recombining genomic regions. Surprisingly, the first fully sequenced nonavian sauropsid (i.e., reptile), the green anole Anolis carolinensis, revealed a highly homogeneous genomic GC-content landscape, suggesting the possibility that gBGC might not be at work in this lineage. Here, we analyze GC-content evolution at third-codon positions (GC3) in 44 vertebrates species, including eight newly sequenced transcriptomes, with a specific focus on nonavian sauropsids. We report that reptiles, including the green anole, have a genome-wide distribution of GC3 similar to that of mammals and birds, and we infer a strong GC3-heterogeneity to be already present in the tetrapod ancestor. We further show that the dynamic of coding sequence GC-content is largely governed by karyotypic features in vertebrates, notably in the green anole, in agreement with the gBGC hypothesis. The discrepancy between third-codon positions and noncoding DNA regarding GC-content dynamics in the green anole could not be explained by the activity of transposable elements or selection on codon usage. This analysis highlights the unique value of third-codon positions as an insertion/deletion-free marker of nucleotide substitution biases that ultimately affect the evolution of proteins
On spectral scaling laws for incompressible anisotropic MHD turbulence
A heuristic model is given for anisotropic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
turbulence in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field B_0 {\bf {\hat
e}_{\pa}}. The model is valid for both moderate and strong and is able
to describe both the strong and weak wave turbulence regimes as well as the
transition between them. The main ingredient of the model is the assumption of
constant ratio at all scales between \add{the} linear wave period and \add{the}
nonlinear turnover timescale. Contrary to the model of critical balance
introduced by Goldreich and Sridhar [P. Goldreich and S. Sridhar, ApJ {\bf
438}, 763 (1995)], it is not assumed in addition that this ratio be equal to
unity at all scales which allows us to use the Iroshnikov-Kraichnan
phenomenology. It is then possible to recover the widely observed anisotropic
scaling law \kpa \propto \kpe^{2/3} between parallel and perpendicular
wavenumbers (with reference to B_0 {\bf {\hat e}_{\pa}}) and to obtain the
universal prediction, , for the total energy spectrum
E(\kpe,\kpa) \sim \kpe^{-\alpha} \kpa^{-\beta}. In particular, with such a
prediction the weak Alfv\'en wave turbulence constant-flux solution is
recovered and, for the first time, a possible explanation to its precursor
found numerically by Galtier et al [S. Galtier et al., J. Plasma Phys. {\bf
63}, 447 (2000)] is given
Oldest Fossil Basidiomycete Clamp Connections
This is the publisher's version, which is being shared with permission. The original version is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10267-010-0065-4A rachis of the fossil filicalean fern Botryopteris antiqua containing abundant septate hyphae with
clamp connections is preserved in a late Visean (Mississippian; *330 Ma) chert from Esnost (Autun Basin) in
central France. Largely unbranched tubular hyphae pass
from cell to cell, but may sometimes produce a branch
from a clamp connection. Other clamp-bearing hyphae
occur clustered in individual cells or small groups of
adjacent host cells. These hyphae may be tubular, catenulate
with numerous hyphal swellings, or they may display a
combination of both. The Visean hyphae with clamp connections
predate Palaeancistrus martinii, the heretofore
oldest direct fossil evidence of Basidiomycota, by some 25 Ma
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