STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSES OF MULTIPLE TISSUES OF GREAT SHEARWATERS (ARDENNA GRAVIS) REVEALS LONG-TERM DIETARY STABILITY, SHORT-TERM CHANGES IN DIET, AND CAN BE USED AS A TOOL TO MONITOR FOOD WEBS

The great shearwater (Ardenna gravis) is a common pelagic bird with a distribution that spans almost the entire Atlantic basin, which in conjunction with its relatively high abundance, makes great shearwaters an effective bio indicator.We compared δ13C and δ15N values from the feathers, red blood cells (RBCs), and plasma of great shearwat

In January of 2009, I traveled to India to interview women in Khuldabad, a small Muslim town in the state of Maharashtra, about religious customs and rituals.With the help of my multilingual friend and colleague from this area, Surekha Shah, I interviewed twenty-nine women using a blend of Urdu and English.These women, from different economic and b

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Polycythemia vera (PV) and essential thrombocythemia (ET) are two Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) associated with an raceline renegade 8 16x10 acquired mutation in the JAK2 tyrosine kinase gene.There is a rare incidence of progression to myelofibrosis and myeloid metaplasia in both disorders, which may or may not precede tr