Female Zebra Finches Smell Their Eggs.

Parental investment in unrelated offspring seems maladaptive from an evolutionary perspective, due to the costs of energy and resources that cannot be invested in related offspring at the same time.Therefore selection should favour mechanisms to discriminate between own and foreign offspring.In birds, much emphasis has been placed on understanding

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Joint elasticity produces energy efficiency in underwater locomotion: Verification with deep reinforcement learning

Underwater snake robots have received attention because of their unique mechanics and locomotion patterns.Given their highly redundant degrees of freedom, designing an energy-efficient gait has been a main challenge for the long-term autonomy of underwater snake robots.We propose a gait design method for an underwater snake robot based on deep rein

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Evaluation of IgG4+ Plasma Cell Infiltration in Patients with Systemic Plasmacytosis and Other Plasma Cell-infiltrating Skin Diseases

Systemic plasmacytosis is a rare skin disorder characterized click here by marked infiltration of plasma cells in the dermis.IgG4-related disease is pathologically characterized by lymphoplasmacytic infiltration rich in IgG4+ plasma cells, storiform fibrosis, and obliterative phlebitis, accompanied by elevated levels of serum IgG4.Reports of cases

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