Does Motility-Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback.

Dispersal can affect individual-level fitness and population-level ecological and evolutionary processes. Factors that affect dispersal could therefore have important eco-evolutionary implications. Here, we investigated the extent to which an inflammation and tissue repair response-peritoneal fibrosis-which is known to restrict movement, could influence dispersal by conducting a mark-recapture experiment in a lake in Alaska with threespine stickleback (.

Plasma and urinary amino acid pattern in severe burn patients-evolution throughout the healing period.

Plasma and urinary amino acids were measured in 12 severely burned adults (20% of body surface area or more). Measurements were made on the day of injury, and seven times thereafter until the 28th day after trauma. During the first 7 days, a decrease in plasma concentrations of some glucose precursor amino acids and an increase of phenylalanine were observed.