'War Between the Sexes': The coevolution of genitalia in waterfowl
... a simple, and rather chaste, "cloacal kiss." But, avian diversity includes a few ancient lineages that ret...part of a research program on the evolution of the avian phallus, I was curious to know if there were consequences to female ducks of the tremendous anatomic...Peramivir protects mice from lethal H5N1 infection
...ns significant protection during a pandemic of the avian influenza virus H5N1, according to results of mouse studies conducted by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Peramivir, an antiviral drug, blocks the ability of influenza viruses to use an enzyme called neuraminidase, thus pre...Work with nanoparticles may lead to 'on-the-spot' virus detector
...f new viruses, including SARS, West Nile virus and avian flu virus. But because viral particles are present at such low concentrations in biological samples, such as blood, a device that can quickly and easily detect them has remained elusive. Typical procedures involve using passive diffusion to get the ...US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows
...n outright flu pandemic, such as a human strain of avian flu. And officials say it is not a question of if such a health crisis will come but when. Are we prepared? In a word, say three UCLA researchers, no. In a report to be published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS Computational Biology and currently...US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows
...n outright flu pandemic, such as a human strain of avian flu. And officials say it is not a question of if such a health crisis will come but when. Are we prepared? In a word, say three UCLA researchers, no. In a report to be published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS Computational Biology and currently...WHO data confirms low level of resistance to Tamiflu
...nhibitors into clinical use. Resistance to H5N1 avian virus The possible development of anti-viral resi...en three documented cases of Tamiflu resistance to avian influenza H5N1. 3,4 In one case, the prophylactic dose (75 mg daily) rather than the treatment dose ...New host species for avian influenza identified
...rdam, and colleagues identify new host species for avian influenza A virus (H5N1) and provide important inf...000 wild migratory birds tested for low pathogenic avian influenza, details new data on host species, prevalence, and temporal and geographical variation of ...Mother birds 'engineer' their offspring
...y persist in adulthood, it has been suggested that avian mothers may engineer, so to speak, the adult pheno...he American Naturalist that several differences in avian life history have coevolved with differences in yolk androgens. Thus, the relative amount of time th...Some forest birds can survive in agricultural countryside with limited habitat conservation
...00 blood samples for genetic analyses and to study avian malaria, Sekercioglu said. "The more we learn, the more we realize we don't know," he said. "That's why you need a multi-pronged approach to look at birds' habits from every level."...Avian influenza survivors' antibodies effective at neutralising H5N1 strain
...covered from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza may hold the key to future treatments fo...hers have shown how specific antibodies taken from avian flu survivors in Vietnam can be reproduced in the laboratory and prove effective at neutralising the...Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds
...evoted husband and father is not enough to keep an avian marriage together for the Nazca booby, a long-lived seabird found in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. Many Nazca booby females switch mates after successfully raising a chick, according to a Wake Forest University study scheduled for...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 13, 2007
... New hot pocket geography may point toward better avian flu drugs Toward a much-needed new test for cance...New "hot pocket" geography may point toward better avian flu drugs Journal of the American Chemical Society Amid heightened concern over a possible epide...CU study reveals why starling females cheat
...or females in seeking extra-pair mates. "In most avian cooperative breeders, 40 to 60 percent of offspring are a result of extra-pair matings, but in superb starlings, only about 14 percent of the offspring are fathered by other males," said Rubenstein. No one knows why superb starling females have lower...MU maps course for improving pre-college science education
...uced to the role of vectors in the transmission of avian influenza virus and how movement of the avian vectors and spread of the virus are monitored at state, regional and global levels. In the Mapping C...Detecting transmissibility of avian influenza virus in human households
...tbreaks of emerging diseases such as SARS and H5N1 avian influenza have underlined the fact that animal pat...d data from a small but well-defined study of H7N7 avian influenza virus transmission in human households to estimate this transmissibility in humans living ......es similar to those described in uropathogenic and avian pathogenic E. coli and enteropathogenic bacteria such as salmonella, cholera, bubonic plague is associated with intestinal inflammation in patients with Crohns disease in their research paper published July 12 by The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary ...