In the post-apocalyptic setting of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road (2006), a father and his son “push down the road a battered shopping cart, containing their bare provisions, on a thoroughly consumed earth” (Seltzer 189).Despite the fact that the novel seems to be situated in an indistinct no-man’s-land, marked by a curious absence of sou
Parasitic plants often show changes in chloroplast genome size and gene content.Here we obtained the complete chloroplast genome of Tolypanthus maclurei, a hemiparasitic shrub of Loranthaceae, using genome skimming method.It is 123,581 bp in length and contains a 72,910 bp large single copy region, teal horse blanket a 9,731 bp small single copy re
No longer determined exclusively by the economic fortunes of the empire, the history of the nineteenth‑century Portuguese colonies in India and the Indian Ocean region has been sufficiently elaborated for some heuristic frameworks to emerge.Histories of medicine, anthropology, politics, print, migration and slavery underscore the importance of no
Abstract Background Indication-based data on the use of antimicrobials in animals were collected using a prospective cross-sectional survey, similarly as for surveys carried out in human medicine, but adapting the questionnaire to include veterinary-specific issues.The participating veterinarians were randomly selected from a sample population of p
Knowledge of the welfare status of wild animals is vital for informing debates about the ways in which we interact with wild animals and their habitats.Currently, there is no published information about how to scientifically assess the welfare of free-roaming wild animals during their normal day-to-day lives.Using free-roaming horses as an example,