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Mitogenic leukoagglutinin from Phaseolus vulgaris binds to a pentasaccharide unit in N-acetyllactosamine-type glycoprotein glycans.
Age and geochemistry of granitoids in the Precambrian basement of Ăland, SE Sweden â implications for the extension of the Transscandinavian Igneous Belt in the Baltic Sea region
The Precambrian crust in the Baltic
Sea region is mostly covered by Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks but can be
studied in drill cores. Two granitoids from the crystalline basement below
Ăland were collected from the archives of the Geological Survey of Sweden and
analyzed for geochemistry and dated with the U-Pb method on zircons. The BĂśda
Hamn granitoid (northern Ăland) has a monzodioritic composition and an age of
1799.8Âą3 Ma while the Valsnäs granitoid (central Ăland) has a quartz monzonitic
composition and an age of 1784.9Âą5.7 Ma. These geochemical-isotopic
characteristics are compatible with those of generation 1 of the
Transscandinavian Igneous Belt (TIB) in the Fennoscandian Shield, âĽ30 km west
of Ăland.A more detailed review of the TIB-1
generation shows that two
sub-generations (1a and 1b) can
be distinguished on each respective side of the Oskarshamn-JĂśnkĂśping Belt
(OJB). Sub-generation 1a (north of OJB) has an age span of 1794-1808 Ma while sub-generation
1b (south of OJB) has an age span of 1769-1793 Ma. According to this subdivision, the BĂśda Hamn monzodiorite belongs to sub-generation 1a, which also can be followed to southernmost Gotland
(Sundblad et al. 2003) and the Valsnäs quartz monzonite belongs to sub-generation 1b, which can be followed to
the Latvian/Lithuanian border, where a marginally younger granitoid was
reported from off shore drill core E-7 (Salin et al. 2016). Taken
together, these data suggest that the Transscandinavian Igneous Belt can
be traced across the Baltic Sea from the exposed parts within the Fennoscandian
Shield to the Latvian/Lithuanian border.Salin, E.,
Sundblad, K., Woodard, J. and Lahaye, Y. 2016: The Precambrian crust in the
Baltic Sea region. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, 32nd Nordic
Geological Winter Meeting, Helsinki. Abstract volume, p. 162.Sundblad, K., Claesson, S.
& Gyllencreutz, R. 2003: The Precambrian of
Gotland â a key to the understanding of the geologic environment for granitoids
in the Baltic Sea region. Granitic systems â State of the art and future
avenues. An international symposium in honor of professor Ilmari Haapala.
Abstract volume, Helsinki, 102Ââ106.
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Testing the Potential for Predictive Modeling and Mapping and Extending Its Use as a Tool for Evaluating Management Scenarios and Economic Valuation in the Baltic Sea (PREHAB)
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Critical-metal mineralogy and ore genesis: contributions from the European Mineralogical Conference held in Rimini, September 2016
Habitat segregation of plate phenotypes in a rapidly expanding population of three-spined stickleback
Declines of large predatory fish due to overexploitation are restructuring food webs across the globe. It is now becoming evident that restoring these altered food webs requires addressing not only ecological processes, but evolutionary ones as well, because human-induced rapid evolution may in turn affect ecological dynamics. We studied the potential for niche differentiation between different plate armor phenotypes in a rapidly expanding population of a small prey fish, the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). In the central Baltic Sea, three-spined stickleback abundance has increased dramatically during the past decades. The increase in this typical mesopredator has restructured near-shore food webs, increased filamentous algal blooms, and threatens coastal biodiversity. Time-series data covering 22 years show that the increase coincides with a decline in the number of juvenile perch (Perca fluviatilis), the most abundant predator of stickleback along the coast. We investigated the distribution of different stickleback plate armor phenotypes depending on latitude, environmental conditions, predator and prey abundances, nutrients, and benthic production; and described the stomach content of the stickleback phenotypes using metabarcoding. We found two distinct lateral armor plate phenotypes of stickleback, incompletely and completely plated. The proportion of incompletely plated individuals increased with increasing benthic production and decreasing abundances of adult perch. Metabarcoding showed that the stomach content of the completely plated individuals more often contained invertebrate herbivores (amphipods) than the incompletely plated ones. Since armor plates are defense structures favored by natural selection in the presence of fish predators, the phenotype distribution suggests that a novel low-predation regime favors stickleback with less armor. Our results suggest that morphological differentiation of the three-spined stickleback has the potential to affect food web dynamics and influence the persistence and resilience of the stickleback take-over in the Baltic Sea.Peer reviewe
Toxicity of lunar dust
The formation, composition and physical properties of lunar dust are
incompletely characterised with regard to human health. While the physical and
chemical determinants of dust toxicity for materials such as asbestos, quartz,
volcanic ashes and urban particulate matter have been the focus of substantial
research efforts, lunar dust properties, and therefore lunar dust toxicity may
differ substantially. In this contribution, past and ongoing work on dust
toxicity is reviewed, and major knowledge gaps that prevent an accurate
assessment of lunar dust toxicity are identified. Finally, a range of studies
using ground-based, low-gravity, and in situ measurements is recommended to
address the identified knowledge gaps. Because none of the curated lunar
samples exist in a pristine state that preserves the surface reactive chemical
aspects thought to be present on the lunar surface, studies using this material
carry with them considerable uncertainty in terms of fidelity. As a
consequence, in situ data on lunar dust properties will be required to provide
ground truth for ground-based studies quantifying the toxicity of dust exposure
and the associated health risks during future manned lunar missions.Comment: 62 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Planetary
and Space Scienc
Experiences of COPD patients with existing smoking cessation programs and their preferences for improvement - a qualitative analysis
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