SILICON DEPOSITION AND PHYTOLITH MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN CULM SHEATHS OF DENDROCALAMUS BRANDISII AT DIFFERENT GROWTH STAGES

Silicon Deposition and Phytolith Morphological Variation in Culm Sheaths of Dendrocalamus brandisii at Different Growth Stages

Bamboo is an efficient silicon accumulator with diverse phytolith morphotypes and composition.The bamboo culm sheath, traditionally considered as a modified leaf, plays a key role in bamboo taxonomy and provides significant mechanical and physiological support for shoot development, but its silicon deposition and phytolith morphological variation r

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Fish, mirrors, and a gradualist perspective on self-awareness.

The mirror mark test has encouraged a binary view of Dish Caddies self-awareness according to which a few species possess this capacity whereas others do not.Given how evolution works, however, we need a more gradualist model of the various ways in which animals construe a self and respond to mirrors.The recent study on cleaner wrasses (Labroides d

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Offering an auto-play feature likely increases total gambling activity at online slot-machines: preliminary evidence from an interrupted time series experiment at a real-life online casino

Auto-play is a ubiquitous feature in online casino gambling and virtual slot machines especially, allowing gamblers Fat Burners to initiate spin sequences of pre-set length and value.While theoretical accounts diverge on the hypothesized causal effect on gambling behavior of using the auto-play feature, observational findings show that this feature

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