Food odours are major determinants for food choice, and their detection depends on nutritional status. The effects of different odour stimuli on both behavioural responses (locomotor activity and sniffing) and Fos induction in olfactory bulbs (OB) were studied in satiated
Anti-predator behaviors are essential to survival for most animals. The neural bases of such behaviors, however, remain largely unknown. Although honeybees commonly use their stingers to counterattack predators, the Japanese honeybee (Apis cerana japonica) uses a different strategy to fight
An extracellular thermostable lipase from Amycolatopsis mediterranei DSM 43304 has been purified to homogeneity using ammonium sulphate precipitation followed by anion exchange chromatography and hydrophobic interaction chromatography. This protocol resulted in a 398-fold purification with 36% final recovery. The purified
Journal of bioscience and bioengineering, 108(5), 359-364 (2009-10-07)
By application of the high-efficiency loss of heterozygosity (HELOH) method for disrupting genes in diploid sake yeast (Kotaka et al., Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 82, 387-395 (2009)), we constructed, from a heterozygous integrant, a homozygous diploid that overexpresses the alcohol acetyltransferase
A continuously operated psi-shaped microreactor was used for lipase-catalyzed synthesis of isoamyl acetate in the 1-butyl-3-methylpyridinium dicyanamide/n-heptane two-phase system. The chosen solvent system with dissolved Candida antarctica lipase B, which was attached to the ionic liquid/n-heptane interfacial area due to
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