21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
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WOOD WIDE WEB. "Every tree is linked to every other tree underground - the "wood wide web". Through these pathways they talk to each other and then behave in certain ways." Suzanne Simard is professor of forest ecology in the department of forest and conservation sciences at the University of British Columbia. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34849374 View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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COORDINATED OSCILLATORS. “Around 70% of chloroplast transcripts can be circadian regulated. In plants, until recently the prevailing view was that circadian oscillators are locally-autonomous with a degree of cell type specialization. However, recent advances demonstrate that interactions occur between the circadian clocks of cells of individual tissues, different tissues, and different organs.” https://lnkd.in/dAX4kdh View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
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LOSS OF TEETH. "All extant Mysticeti possess baleen and they are born entirely edentulous, despite being descended from ancestors that possessed teeth. The presence of rudimentary teeth in extant mysticete fetuses reflects this ancestry, but the developmental mechanisms responsible for tooth loss in utero remain obscure." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00067/full View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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FILTER FEEDING AND TEETH. "Baleen whales, or mysticetes, include the largest vertebrates to have ever evolved. Their gigantism, evolutionary success, and ecological diversity have been linked to filter feeding. While the earliest mysticetes retained the adult, mineralized teeth present in ancestral whales, all species of living baleen whales lack teeth and instead possess baleen." https://lnkd.in/duDXgp7 View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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DRIVERS OF SENSORY LOSS. "Whales represent the first animal group to lack four of five primary tastes, probably driven by the marine environment with high concentration of sodium, the feeding behavior of swallowing prey whole, and the dietary switch from plants to meat in the whale ancestor." https://lnkd.in/d4b6XQ4 View in LinkedIn
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