{"title":"Hermit crabs, humans and crowded house markets.","authors":"David K A Barnes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a complex and dynamic interrelationhip between hermit crabs, humans and the coastal environment. Hermit crab homes (shells) are often hard to come by, but humans are helping out by piling middens of shells and rubbish on beachers. Hermit crabs are useful to humans as fishing bait, pets and living wasted disposal systems, and so useful to other animals that they may even be hijacked.</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 6","pages":"270-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22159447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who was... Almroth Wright?","authors":"Francis Diggins","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sir Almroth Edward Wright CB MD FRS (1861-1947) was Britains first academic immunologist. He was qualified in both Arts and Medicine and commenced his professional life as a Physiologist, became Professor of Pathology and led the study of immunity to infectious diseases. He was often a controversial scientist and not always right in his views, hence his nickname 'Sir Almost Right'!</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 6","pages":"280-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22159449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yoram Yekutieli, German Sumbre, Tamar Flash, Binyamin Hochner
{"title":"How to move with no rigid skeleton? The octopus has the answers.","authors":"Yoram Yekutieli, German Sumbre, Tamar Flash, Binyamin Hochner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The octopus is amazingly flexible and shows exceptional control and coordination in all its movements. It seems remarkable to us skeletal creatures that the octopus achieves all this without a single bone.</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 6","pages":"250-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22159443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Like it and lump it.","authors":"Amy-Jane Beer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 6","pages":"288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22169969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ligula intestinalis--a tapeworm contraceptive.","authors":"Chris Arme","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human contraceptives are 'big business', but might the real breakthrough come out from the pharmaceutical industry but from a tapeworm? Ligula intestinalis can induce infertility in infected fish of the carp family - both males and females. If the mechanism for this can be discovered, this humble flatworm could drastically change contraceptive practices with one pill for all.</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 6","pages":"265-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22159446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The heart as an endocrine organ.","authors":"Guiseppe A Sagnella","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The discovery of atrial natruietic peptide firmly established that the heart was not just a pump and provided the long-sought-after link between the heart and the kidney in the control of soduim balance. Pharmacological targeting of the natruiretic peptide system is now leading to novel advances in the treatment of hypertension and of heart failure - two of the most common causes of human disability and death.</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 6","pages":"275-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22159448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Museum collections--a cause for concern.","authors":"Frank Dewhurst","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 6","pages":"244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22172008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Another road to making embryonic pattern.","authors":"Rob Kay","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The body plan of a n animal is formed during embryonic development. One mechanism employs gradients of morphogens to direct cells in different parts of the embryo to become different adult structures. But is this the only way of producing tissue patterns? An alternative patterning is suggested by work on social amoebae.</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 6","pages":"261-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22159445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking genes - the molecular basis of language impairment.","authors":"Dianne F Newbury, Anthony P Monaco","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many children acquire language so smoothly that it appears to be an innate ability. If this is true, then it should be possible to identify genes that underlie variations in linguistic abilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 6","pages":"255-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22159444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}