Recently added articles from The Texas Journal of Science:

A formal synthesis of (+)-muricatacin from L-tartaric acid.(GENERAL NOTES)(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Southard, Jack M. ... Muricatacin (1) is an acetogenin that displays cytotoxic activity towards certain tumor cell lines found in humans (Figure 1). This lipid-soluble class of anticancer drug was first isolated from the seeds of the Soursop tree (Annona muricata) and has received considerable attention in ...

A key to the common seed shrimp (Crustacea: Ostracoda) of the playa lakes of the Llano Estacado region of northwestern Texas.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Horne, Francis R. ... Playa lakes of the Southern High Plains represent one of the more unique inland aquatic habitats of North America and have received considerable attention due to both their unusual biological and physical characteristics (Reeves 1966; Rowell 1971; Home 1974; Osterkamp & Wood 1987; Proctor ...

Spatial and temporal expression of syndecan--2 (fibroglycan) in chick heart development.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Gordon, Ashley ... Syndecan-2 is but one member of the syndecan family of heparan sulfate proteoglycans. Four syndecan isoforms occur in higher vertebrates and a single isoform in invertebrates including Drosophila and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Regardless of species or isoform, all syndecans share ...

Effects of permanent water on home ranges and movements of adult male white-tailed deer in southern Texas.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Webb, Stephen L. ... Water distribution may have a large impact on ungulates in arid environments if water is scarce. If water distribution is poor, then ungulates may have large home range sizes, or be concentrated near water sources. Because establishing water sources can be expensive (Bone et al. 1992; ...

Foraging preferences by American beavers, Castor canadensis (rodentia: Castoridae) on central Texas rivers.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Baccus, John T. ... American beaver (Castor canadensis Kuhl) occurs naturally in nearly every available aquatic habitat in North America, with the exceptions of the arctic tundra, high montane environs, southwestern deserts, and peninsular Florida (Hall 1981; Jenkins & Busher 1979). Beavers have been ...

Re-occurrence of the tropical green macroalga, Penicillus capitatus (Chlorophyta: Bryopsidales), in the Lower Laguna Madre of south Texas.(GENERAL NOTES)(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Kowalski, Joseph L. ... The siphonaceous green alga Penicillus capitatus Lamarck is a common macroalga of the Carribean and Gulf of Mexico (Littler & Littler 2000). This shaving brush-shaped macroalga was a common inhabitant of the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas (LLM) until about 40 years ago when the population was ...

Reproduction in the redback coffee snake, Ninia sebae (Serpentes: Colubridae), from southern Mexico and Central America.(GENERAL NOTES)(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Goldberg, Stephen R. ... The redback coffee snake, Ninia sebae frequents lowlands and premontane slopes from Veracruz and Oaxaca, Mexico, southward through Central America to southern Costa Rica where it is known from 4-1,100 m; it is a secretive, nocturnal leaf litter inhabitant (Savage 2002). There is anecdotal ...

Possible vertebrate burrows from the Miocene Fleming Formation near Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.(GENERAL NOTES)(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Stidham, Thomas A. ... Fossil vertebrates have been known from the Miocene of east Texas for over 100 years (Anonymous 1860; Wilson 1956). Most of that early work focused on the larger mammalian component of the fauna. More recently, researchers have examined the smaller mammals and non-mammalian taxa of the ...

A noteworthy infection of Clinostomum complanatum (Digenea: Clinostomidae) in a cave salamander, Eurycea lucifuga (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from northcentral Tennessee.(GENERAL NOTES)(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; McAllister, Chris T. ... The cave salamander, Eurycea lucifuga inhabits karst areas of the Central Highlands of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma east through the Appalachians of Kentucky and Tennessee to Virginia and West Virginia (Conant & Collins 1998). It prefers the twilight zone of caves and ...