The skull of six Japanese fowl breeds, namely, Chabo, Oh-Shamo, Onagadori, Shokoku, Tosajidori, and Totenko, were morphologically compared in this study.The morphological differences in the skull size and shape among the breeds were as follows.1) Oh-Shamo possessed a wide bill, thick bill tip, small orbits and wide mandibular joint.The characterist
Abstract The Preah Vihear monument in Cambodia, located close to the border with Thailand, was one of the Khmer temples registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a Cultural Property in 2008.It consists of masonry buildings constructed of siliceous sandstone blocks.In this study, the construction sequence of its buildings was inferred from the
Steel is an important material that is widely used and its development has occurred in conjunction with the history of mankind over the last two centuries.In general, the steelmaking process has been done through a combination of a direct reduction process and an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) or an indirect reduction process and a Basic Oxygen Furnace
Hybrid vigour, or heterosis, has been of tremendous importance in agriculture for the improvement of both crops and livestock.Notwithstanding large efforts to study the phenomenon of heterosis in the last decades, the identification of common molecular mechanisms underlying hybrid vigour remain rare.Here, we conducted a systematic survey of the deg
Formation of a dorsoventral axis is a chocolate chip cookie purse key event in the early development of most animal embryos.It is well established that bone morphogenetic proteins (Bmps) and Wnts are key mediators of dorsoventral patterning in vertebrates.In the cephalochordate amphioxus, genes encoding Bmps and transcription factors downstream of