scholarly journals First nest records, nestling growth and morphometrics of Dendroplex picus peruvianus (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae) in southwestern Brazilian Amazon

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. e20476
Author(s):  
Jônatas Lima ◽  
Edson Guilherme

We reported the first data on the breeding and growth in Dendroplex picus peruvianus from a forest fragment in southwestern Amazonia. We observed and netted this species between 1999 and 2019. We found two active nests in 2012 and 2013, but we monitored only one. Clutch size was two eggs, incubated for 16 days. The constant growth rate (K) of nestlings was 0.31 with a growth asymptote of 46.3 g. We recorded a longest minimum longevity of eight years. Our records showed that D. p. peruvianus breeds mainly in the rainy season (September–March) overlapping with the molt period.

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. e18793
Author(s):  
Jônatas Lima ◽  
Railene Almeida ◽  
Edson Guilherme

We present new aspects of breeding biology of Gray-fronted Dove Leptotila rufaxilla, from five nests found between 2012 and 2014 in a lowland forest fragment in southwestern Brazil. The nests simple/platform shape were built at a mean height of 1.90 m above ground. The clutch size was two eggs white and elliptic, incubated for 15 days (based on three nests). We recorded predation in two nests still in incubation phase. Minimum hatch weight of nestlings was 10 g and young fledged with a mean mass of 56 g. The constant growth rate (K) of nestlings was 0.40 with a growth asymptote of 60.7 g. Daily survival rate, Mayfield and apparent nesting success in the incubation period was 90, 20 and 56%, respectively, while in the nestling period were all 100%. Our data and the contribution of citizen science showed that L. rufaxilla breeds over the year, mainly in the rainy season, both in southwestern Amazonia and in other regions of occurrence.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1454 ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuyuki Iwata ◽  
Yuta Watabe ◽  
Yoshito Tsuchiya ◽  
Kento. Norota ◽  
Takuya Hashimoto ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe LaFeO3 and CaFeOX layers are grown using highly dense target prepared by Pechini method, with which accurate growth rate is achieved. Since the LaFeO3demonstrates the obvious RHEED oscillation until the end of growth, constant growth rate, and the step-terraces structure, the LFO is employed as a buffer and/or reference layer to determine the required pulses to deposit the thickness we desire in the superlattice. Superlattices show the clear satellite peaks and Laue oscillation in the XRD spectra as well as the oscillations caused by the film thickness with a flat surface and superstructure with a flat interface in the x-ray reflection spectrum. The streaky RHEED patterns and step-terraces surface are consistent with the results of spectra using x-ray.


Cell Reports ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 705-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai Slavov ◽  
Bogdan A. Budnik ◽  
David Schwab ◽  
Edoardo M. Airoldi ◽  
Alexander van Oudenaarden

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuyan You ◽  
Jiang Feng ◽  
Haitao Wang ◽  
Jilong Wang ◽  
Chao Dong ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
bahram houchmandzadeh

Abstract The Luria-Delbrück experiment is a cornerstone of evolutionary theory, demonstrating the randomness of mutations before selection. The distribution of the number of mutants in this experiment has been the subject of intense investigation during the last 70 years. Despite this considerable effort, most of the results have been obtained under the assumption of constant growth rate, which is far from the experimental condition. We derive here the properties of this distribution for arbitrary growth function, for both the deterministic and stochastic growth of the mutants. The derivation we propose is surprisingly simple and versatile, allowing many generalizations to be taken easily into account.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Augusto Vargas-Garcia ◽  
Abhyudai Singh

A ubiquitous feature of all living cells is their growth over time followed by division into two daughter cells. How a population of genetically identical cells maintains size homeostasis, i.e., a narrow distribution of cell size, is an intriguing fundamental problem. We model size using a stochastic hybrid system, where a cell grows exponentially over time and probabilistic division events are triggered at discrete time intervals. Moreover, whenever these events occur, size is randomly partitioned among daughter cells. We first consider a scenario, where a timer (i.e., cell-cycle clock) that measures the time since the last division event regulates cellular growth and the rate of cell division. Analysis reveals that such a timer-driven system cannot achieve size homeostasis, in the sense that, the cell-to-cell size variation grows unboundedly with time. To explore biologically meaningful mechanisms for controlling size we consider three different classes of models: i) a size-dependent growth rate and timer-dependent division rate; ii) a constant growth rate and size-dependent division rate and iii) a constant growth rate and division rate that depends both on the cell size and timer. We show that each of these strategies can potentially achieve bounded intercellular size variation, and derive closed-form expressions for this variation in terms of underlying model parameters. Finally, we discuss how different organisms have adopted the above strategies for maintaining cell size homeostasis.


1975 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Misguich ◽  
R. Balescu

Collective binary correlations are deduced from the re-normalized quasi-linear (RQL) equation describing the evolution of the singlet average function. For a constant growth rate, a crude calculation suggests that generalized Dupree damping could seriously reduce the trapping of resonant particles.


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