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Axianassa heardi Anker, 2011, n. sp.
No full textAxianassa heardi n. sp. (Figs 9–13) Type material. Holotype: male (CL 4.65 mm), QM W 29049, Australia, Queensland, Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island, Casuarina Beach near Lizard Island marine station, 14 ° 40 ’ 31.4 ”S, 145 ° 26 ’ 39.5 ”E, sand flat with corals and coral rubble, depth 1 m, suction (yabby) pump, from burrow, coll. A. Anker, 24 February 2009, fcn AUST- 1797. Additional material. 1 female (CL 5.3 mm), FLMNH UF Arthropoda 23957, French Polynesia, Society Islands, Moorea, channel between NW Motu islands, 17 ° 29 ’ 21.5 ”S, 149 ° 54 ’ 47.5 ”W, sand flat with some large and small rocks and coral “bommies”, 0–2 m, hand, A. Anker, 10 November 2009, fcn BMOO 8770. Description. [based on male holotype] Body and appendages sparsely covered with conspicuous, long, erect setae (Fig. 9 A, 12). Carapace with straight linea thalassinica and well-defined, crescent-shaped cervical groove; pterygostomial region broadly rounded, fringed with setae (Fig. 9 A, C). Rostrum about as long as broad at base, reaching far beyond anterior margin of eyestalks, with rounded apical tooth and three teeth on each lateral margin, most posterior lateral tooth being much less than conspicuous than most anterior lateral tooth (Fig. 9 B, E). Abdomen thinly sclerotised, smooth; first abdominal somite with pleuron ventrally produced into fairly strong blunt process (Fig. 9 A); posterior somites without dense lateral fringes of plumose setae. Telson broad, tapering posteriorly, without armature, posterior margin broadly rounded (Fig. 9 I). Eyestalks rounded, with large cornea occupying entire terminal portion (Fig. 9 D), pigmented blackish in alcohol-preserved specimen, white-yellowish in life (Fig. 12). Antennular peduncle with third article subcylindrical, slender, not reaching half-length of fourth article of antennal peduncle (Fig. 9 A, B). Antennal acicle dagger-like, tapering distally, reaching to about 0.3 length of third article of antennular peduncle; fourth article subcylindrical, very long, slender, furnished with elongate setae on lateral and ventrolateral surface (Fig. 9 A); flagellum well developed, reaching well beyond chelipeds. Mouthparts more or less typical for genus (cf. Kensley & Heard 1990: fig. 2 D–I; Rodrigues & Shimizu 1992: figs. 4–8; Anker 2010: fig. 2). Mandible with triarticulated palp (first two articles possibly partly fused); distal article densely furnished with setae, most distal setae brown-blackish in colour; molar and incisor processes partly fused; molar edge without teeth (except for one blunt distal bump); incisor edge with 11 small subacute teeth (Fig. 10 A, B). Maxillule with biarticulated palp, coxal endite very setose; basal endite with stout spine-like setae in addition to more slender setae (Fig. 10 C). Maxilla with broad scaphognathite, bearing at least six long, flexible setae on ventral (= posterior) margin; endopod biarticulated, distal article slightly narrower than proximal, tapering (Fig. 10 D, E). First maxilliped with broad, paddle-shaped endopod; exopod triarticulated, basal article broad, paddle-shaped, distal articles much narrower; epipod present as large oval-shaped lobe (Fig. 10 F, G). Second maxilliped typical for Axianassa, with elongate epipod bearing well-developed podobranch; endopod robust, with apical “head” formed by propodus and dactylus; exopod triarticulated (Fig. 10 H). Third maxilliped pediform; epipod bifid, with well-developed podobranch; ischium with crista dentata bearing at least 14 teeth; merus with small acute tooth distolaterally; bands of fusiform setae grouped in well-delimited areas present on mesial side of merus, carpus, propodus and dactylus, ventral margin of these articles with long simple setae, latter especially dense on dactylus (Fig. 11 A, B). First pereiopods (chelipeds) stout, unequal in size by about 20 %, slightly asymmetrical in shape. Major cheliped very robust; ischium with about eight small teeth on ventral margin, most distal tooth largest and most conspicuous; merus with ventral and dorsal margins inflated, ventral margin with at least eight small teeth proximally and one larger projecting tooth at about mid-length; carpus cup-shaped, distally widening, unarmed; chela ovate, compressed laterally, smooth, with fingers about 0.7 palm length, stout, with crossing tips; cutting edge of pollex with two large subtriangular teeth and a series of smaller teeth proximally; cutting edge of dactylus with at least one larger tooth (Fig. 11 C–E). Minor cheliped generally similar to major cheliped, with slightly smaller, more slender chela; teeth on cutting edges of pollex less pronounced (Fig. 11 F). Second pereiopod pediform, robust; merus, carpus and propodus with long flexible setae along ventral margin; dactylus about half as long as propodus, simple (Fig. 11 G). Third pereiopod moderately stout; ischium, merus and carpus smooth, moderately setose; propodus with distoventral brush(es) of stiff setae; dactylus slightly shorter than propodus, somewhat sickle-shaped; dorsal margin bearing at least six stout corneous spines; distoventral margin slightly expanded, carrying row of short spiniform setae (Fig. 11 H). Fourth pereiopod similar to third pereiopod, slightly shorter and more slender. Fifth pereiopod much more slender than third or fourth pereiopods; propodus subchelate, ending in short subacute tooth (obscured by setae); distal half of propodus with brush of stiff setae (Fig. 11 I); dactylus subspatulate, with deep ventroproximal excavation opposed to subacute tooth of propodus. First pleopod absent. Second to fifth pleopods similar, biramous, typical for genus. Uropods with broadly ovoid exopod and endopod; exopod with blunt distolateral tooth adjacent to movable spiniform seta, sometimes with a second much smaller tooth on lateral margin above distolateral tooth, and with distinct transverse suture furnished with about 12 small denticles; endopod with one strong subacute tooth on lateral margin and with several subacute teeth on dorsal surface as illustrated (Fig. 9 G, H). Gill/exopod formula possibly* as described for genus (cf. Kensley & Heard 1990), except for the presence of well-developed (vs. rudimentary) epipod on the first maxilliped (*note: some arthrobranchs were detached during dissection). Colour pattern. Uniform hyaline white; ovary orange (Figs. 12, 13). Etymology. Named after Dr. Richard Heard (Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, MS, USA), for his contributions to decapod taxonomy, including the co-authorship in the revision of the American species of Axianassa (Kensley & Heard 1990). Habitat. Lizard Island: sand flat with large coral heads and coral rubble, at depth of about 1 m, in burrows (same collection site as for Athanopsis saurus n. sp.); Moorea: shallow channel between two small islands, with large areas of sand between rocks and coral “bommies”. Type locality. Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef off Queensland, Australia. Distribution. Lizard Island, northern section of the Great Barrier Reef (type locality), and Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia. Variation. The female specimen from Moorea generally agrees with the male holotype, except for having a stouter major cheliped, with a more pronounced tooth on the cutting edge of the dactylus (Fig. 13), and bearing a pair of slender uniramous pleopods on the first abdominal somite, as is typical for females of Axianassa. Remarks. Axianassa heardi n. sp. is presently the only species in the genus Axianassa with the uropodal exopod bearing a conspicuous transverse suture furnished with row of small subacute denticles (Fig. 9 G, H). The presence of a dentate transverse suture immediately separates the new species from all the other species of the genus Axianassa (cf. Kensley & Heard 1990; Rodrigues & Shimizu 1992; Anker 2010; Liu & Liu 2010). Axianassa heardi n. sp. is also the third member of Axianassa reported from the Indo-West Pacific, differing from the recently described A. ngochoae Anker, 2010 and A. sinica Liu & Liu 2010 in a number of other characters, such as the marginally dentate rostrum and a much shorter antennal acicle (cf. Anker 2010: fig. 1 d; Liu & Liu 2010: fig. 2 A). All American species of Axianassa differ from the new species by at least two morphological characters, in addition to the toothed diaeresis on the uropodal exopod (cf. Kensley & Heard 1990; Rodrigues & Shimizu 1992). Noteworthy, A. heardi n. sp. appears to be confined to sandy reef patches, whereas all the other species of Axianassa inhabit muddier bottoms (cf. Kensley & Heard 1990; Anker 2010; Liu & Liu 2010). Several morphological features of A. heardi n. sp. disagree with the generic diagnosis of Axianassa provided by Kensley & Heard (1990). For example, the eyestalks were described as “short, cornea poorly defined, eyes poorly pigmented...”. In A. heardi n. sp., the eyes have a relatively large, globular cornea occupying most of the eyestalk’s apical area; the cornea seems to be relatively well-pigmented, although in life its colour is yellowish white (Fig. 12), becoming blackish in alcohol (Fig. 9 D). More importantly, in all other species of Axianassa the uropodal exopod and endopod are “lacking sutures”, with the exopod bearing a “variable weak spination” (Kensley & Heard 1990). As emphasised above, in A. heardi n. sp., the distal area of the exopod has a distinct suture furnished with small acute denticles. Such a suture is absent from the endopod, which only bears a few acute or subacute denticles dorsally and one marginal tooth laterally. In addition, the first maxilliped of A. heardi n. sp. bears a fairly large epipod (Fig. 10 E, F), which seems to be rudimentary in all other species of Axianassa (cf. Kensley & Heard 1990: fig. 2 H; Anker 2010: fig. 2 e). Other possible particularities in the mouthparts of A. heardi n. sp. include the absence of teeth on the molar process and a biarticulated endopod of the maxilla. With more Indo-West Pacific species discovered in the future, Axianassa may eventually require a redefinition, which, however, is beyond the scope of the present study.Published as part of Anker, Arthur, 2011, Four new infaunal decapod crustaceans (Caridea: Alpheidae and Gebiidea: Axianassidae) from Lizard Island, Australia, one of them also occurring in Moorea, French Polynesia, pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 2734 on pages 14-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20297
Management of Chronic Cardiorenal Syndrome
No full textPatients with heart failure (HF) often have renal dysfunction and patients with kidney disease develop congestive HF, therefore the concept of cardiorenal syndromes evolved which can be a chronic or acute cardiorenal syndrome. Both chronic renal and heart disease share comorbidities like anemia which cause symptoms, disease progression and increase the risk of hospital admission and mortality. Even though there are clinical guidelines for managing both dysfunctions separately, patients with severe HF or severe kidney disease have often been excluded from clinical trials of the respective other disorder. We outline here a summary of the current state of the art of the clinical practice to manage patients with chronic cardiorenal syndrome using drug therapy. We will furthermore focus on that management of anemia and iron deficiency in particular as there have been recent advances. Copyright (C) 2010 S. Karger AG, Base
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Étude sur le patois de Valbonnais
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Improving MHC-I ligand identifications from LC-MS/MS data by incorporating allelic peptide motifs
No full textMHC class I (MHC-I)-bound ligands play a pivotal role in CD8 T cell immunity and are hence of major interest in understanding and designing immunotherapies. One of the most commonly utilized approaches for detecting MHC ligands is LC-MS/MS. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of current algorithms to identify MHC ligands from LC-MS/MS data is limited because the search algorithms used were originally developed for proteomics approaches detecting tryptic peptides. Consequently, the analysis often results in inflated false discovery rate (FDR) statistics and an overall decrease in the number of peptides that pass FDR filters. Andreatta et al. describe a new scoring tool (MS-rescue) for peptides from MHC-I immunopeptidome datasets. MS-rescue incorporates the existence of MHC-I peptide motifs to rescore peptides from ligandome data. The tool is demonstrated here using peptides assigned from LC-MS/MS data with PEAKs software but can be deployed on data from any search algorithm. This new approach increased the number of peptides identified by up to 20-30% and promises to aid the discovery of novel MHC-I ligands with immunotherapeutic potential
Collecting Cures in an Artisanal Manuscript: Practical Therapeutics and Disease in Ms. Fr. 640
No full textScattered throughout Ms. Fr. 640, the forty medical recipes form a small percentage of its over 900 entries. A consideration of the ailments, ingredients, and making processes described in the manuscript, as well as the author-practitioner’s process of collecting information, reveals a variety of connections between Ms. Fr. 640’s medical recipes and early modern artisanal work
The Poems of MS Junius 11 Basic Readings
No full textTaken from the same manuscript as Cynewulf, the Junius 11 poems-Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan-comprise a series of redacted Old English works that have been traditionally presented as the work of Bede's Caedmon. Medieval scholars have concluded that the four poems were composed by more than one author and later edited by Junius in 1655. All of the poems are notable for their Christian content. Apart from its focus on the Junius 11 manuscript, this collection of essays is also important as a study of how to read, edit, and define any medieval literary text.Front Cover -- The Poems of MS Junius 11 -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface of the General Editors -- Introduction: R. M. Liuzza -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Confronting Germania Latina: Changing Responses to Old English Biblical Verse: Joyce Hill -- The Old English Epic of Redemption: The Theological Unity of MS Junius 11: J. R. Hall -- The Old English Epic of Redemption": Twenty-Five-Year Retrospective: J. R. Hall -- Some Uses of Paronomasia in Old English Scriptural Verse: Roberta Frank -- Tempter as Rhetoric Teacher: The Fall of Language in the Old English Genesis B: Eric Jager -- Conspicuous Heroism: Abraham, Prudentius, and the Old English Verse Genesis: Andrew Orchard -- Christian Tradition in the Old English Exodus: James W. Earl -- The Patriarchal Digression in the Old English Exodus, Lines 362-446: Stanley R. Hauer -- The Lion Standard in Exodus: Jewish Legend, Germanic Tradition, and Christian Typology: Charles D. Wright -- The Structure of the Old English Daniel: Robert T. Farrell -- Style and Theme in the Old English Daniel: Earl R. Anderson -- Nebuchadnezzar's Dreams in the Old English Daniel: Antonina Harbus -- The Power of Knowledge and the Location of the Reader in Christ and Satan: Ruth Wehlau -- The Wisdom Poem at the End of MS Junius 11: Janet Schrunk Ericksen -- IndexTaken from the same manuscript as Cynewulf, the Junius 11 poems-Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan-comprise a series of redacted Old English works that have been traditionally presented as the work of Bede's Caedmon. Medieval scholars have concluded that the four poems were composed by more than one author and later edited by Junius in 1655. All of the poems are notable for their Christian content. Apart from its focus on the Junius 11 manuscript, this collection of essays is also important as a study of how to read, edit, and define any medieval literary text.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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