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"BIRTH AT SEA was a prerequisite for the first fully-aquatic whales, the Basilosauridae (including Dorudon) which evolved from Protocetidae later in the Eocene. Basilosauridae have reduced hind limbs that no longer contact the vertebral column and could not support the weight of the body on land. Hence they could no longer come out of the sea onto land to give birth." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0004366 View in LinkedIn

INTERNAL CLOCK OF TREES. "Endogenous rhythmic growth in oak trees is regulated by internal clocks rather than resource availability. The results indicate that rhythmic growth involves dramatic oscillations in plant metabolism and gene regulation between below- and above-ground parts. Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis may play a previously unsuspected role in smoothing these oscillations without modifying the rhythmic growth pattern." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/22/7113.full View in LinkedIn

CIRCADIAN CLOCKS. "Recent work on circadian rhythm synchronization neatly illustrates the signaling and communication role performed by plant and animal cellular circadian clocks. The capacity of the suprachiasmatic nucleus neurons in mammals to put distal circadian clocks in synchrony is paralleled by circadian clocks located in plant shoot apex cells; clocks that can entrain distal root cells courtesy of the plant vasculature signaling pathways." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn