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Competition, facilitation, and niche differentiation in two foliar pathogens
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Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
, 2004 , Article)
We studied competition between the obligate biotroph Puccinia triticina (designated here as Puccinia) and the facultative saprophyte Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (designated here as Pyrenophora) in older and younger leaves ...
Water stress and gibberellic acid effects on growth of fenugreek plants
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Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
, 1998 , Article)
Fenugreek plant is susceptible to water stress during the vegetative growth stages, since a soil matric potential lower than -0.3 MPa causes substantial reduction in growth parameters such as height, weight and total leaf ...
Helminth parasites of fishes from two inland lakes in Egypt
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Nihon Kiseichu Gakkai
, 1990 , Article)
Results of helminthological examination of 1243 fishes, caught from two inland lakes, with unique and contrasting hydrobiological features at Fayoum Governate in Egypt, are presented.
General incidence of trematodes, ...
Knockout mice: Is it just genetics? Effect of enriched housing on fibulin-4+/- mice
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Public Library of Science
, 2007 , Article)
Background. Fibulin-4 is an extracellular matrix protein expressed by vascular smooth muscle cells that is essential for maintaining arterial integrity. Fibulin-4-/- mice die just before birth due to arterial hemorrhage, ...
Preliminary Survey on Parasites Infecting Some Amphibian and Reptilian Species from United Arab Emirates and Qatar
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Qatar University
, 2002 , Article)
The common amphibian toad Bufo orientalis and four species of reptiles (Scincus muscatensis, Mabuya brevicolis, Uromastyx microlepis and Diplometopon zarudnyi) were collected from five localities in the United Arab Emirates ...
The Gulf: A young sea in decline
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2009 , Article)
This review examines the substantial changes that have taken place in marine habitats and resources of the Gulf over the past decade. The habitats are especially interesting because of the naturally high levels of temperature ...
Expansion of fisheries in Qatar (1980-1992): Growth of an artisanal fleet and closure of a trawling company
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Elsevier Science B. V.
, 1995 , Article)
Total fish landings in Qatar increased from 1736 t per annum in 1980 to 7845 t in 1992. Ninetythree percent of this growth was due to an increase in the artisanal fleet exemplified by increases in: (i) numbers of vessels ...
Present day inbreeding does not forbid the forensic utility of commonly explored STR loci: A case study of native Qataris
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Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
, 2008 , Article)
Allele frequency distribution of 15 short tandem repeat (STR) loci (D8S1179, D21S11, D7S820, CSF1PO, D3S1358, TH01, D13S317, D16S539, D2S1338, D19S433, vWA, TPOX, D18S51, D5S818, and FGA) was studied in a sample of 120 ...
Molecular phylogeny of Qatari date palm genotypes using Simple Sequence Repeats markers
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Asian Network for Scientific Information
, 2009 , Article)
The objectives of the present study is to analyze the genetic diversity among 15 different cultivars of date palm at the experimental farm of Qatar University using Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers and find out the ...
Purification and characterization of an extracellular phenol oxidase from culture filtrates of Pyricularia oryzae
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NRC Research Press
, 1996 , Article)
Extracellular phenol oxidase activity was characterized and compared in Pyricularia oryzae wild-type and albino cell types to determine if this phenol oxidase was responsible for lack of melanization in the albino culture. ...