Cooperation is ubiquitous across taxa in the animal kingdom. For example, microbes cooperate in producing antibiotic-resistant biofilms, mammals and birds collectively mob predators, and humans cooperate in utilization of ...

A focus in evolutionary biology is to understand the drivers of diversity in animal behavioural traits in the living world. Animals facing similar problems in the environment, such as the problem of how much to invest in ...

The Corpus luteum (CL) is a dynamic endocrine structure that develops in the ovary from the remnants of the ovulated follicle and plays a critical role in the control of estrous/menstrual cycle as well as in establishment ...

The work presented in this thesis provides an overview of the potential role of N-methylation in inducing reverse turns. Backbone N-methylation is one of the common modifications designed by nature and exploited by humans ...

In this thesis, I tried to understand the patterns and processes of vegetation trends at different spatial scales and resolution. The spatial variability in vegetation trends was related to inter and intra-annual changes ...

In mixed-species bird flocks (flocks hereafter), participants vary in their degree of similarity with each other. Flock participants can gain group size (supplementary) benefits by choosing similar flock partners, or ...

The Influence of Glycerol and Specific Genes on the Asymmetric Cell Division in Mycobacteria Submitted by Atul Pradhan (S.R. No. 03-04-00-10-11-14-1-11678) Background Information: Mycobacteria maintain heterogeneity in ...

Metabolic flexibility is one of the key factors that underpin mycobacterial physiology and pathogenesis. During infection, mycobacteria shift towards utilising host-derived fatty acids, lipids, cholesterol and cholesterol-esters. ...

Determining how biodiversity is produced and maintained remains one of the fundamental questions in ecology. The phenomenon of diversification, which occurs via the interplay of speciation and extinction, holds the key ...