FAULKNER: A BIOGRAPHY. BY JOSEPH BLOTNER. NEW YORK: RANDOM HOUSE, 1974.


The agricultural impact of pesticides on Physalaemus cuvieri tadpoles (Amphibia: Anura) ascertained by comet assay

ABSTRACT Amphibians inhabiting agricultural areas are constantly exposed to large amounts of chemicals, which reach the aquatic environment during the rainy season through runoff, drainage, and leaching.We performed a comet assay on the erythrocytes of tadpoles found in the surroundings of agricultural fields (soybean and corn crops), where there i

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DNA damage triggers genetic exchange in Helicobacter pylori.

Many organisms respond to DNA damage by inducing expression of DNA repair genes.We find that the human stomach pathogen Helicobacter pylori instead induces transcription and translation of natural competence genes, thus increasing transformation frequency.Transcription of a lysozyme-like Racing Frames protein that promotes DNA donation from intact

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