Box Jellyfish Alatina alata Has a Circumtropical Distribution.

Species of the box jellyfish (Cubozoa) genus Alatina are notorious for their sting along the beaches of several localities of the Atlantic and Pacific. These species include Alatina alata on the Caribbean Island of Bonaire (the Netherlands), A. moseri in Hawaii, and A.

The relationship between select demographic characteristics and body mass index among Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander caregiving adults.

Purpose: Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders (NHOPIs) have the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity in the world. We identified the proportion of our NHOPI sample in each body mass index (BMI) category and explored relationships between BMI and demographic characteristics.

Design/method: Our descriptive correlational study included 364 NHOPI caregiver adults in Utah (n = 155) and Hawaii (n = 209).

Epistatic contributions to quantitative traits in Tribolium castaneum : II. Traits closely related to fitness.

Triple-testcross experiments were used to analyze epistatic contributions to % hatchability of eggs, age of pupation, number of eggs laid in 24-hour period, and survival from hatching to day 35. Seven diverse inbred lines and the F1 produced by crossing the two tester lines were examined for the presence of epistasis. There was evidence of epistasis for each of the 4 traits in at least one of the 8 lines tested.

Epistatic contributions to quantitative traits in Tribolium castaneum : I. Traits not closely related to fitness.

Triple-testcross experiments were used to analyze epistatic contributions to larva weight, pupa weight, pupa width and adult weight in Tribolium castaneum. Seven diverse inbred lines and the F1. produced by crossing the two tester lines were examined for indications of epistasis.

An analysis of the mode of gene action affecting pupa weight in Tribolium castaneum.

Triple-testcross experiments (Kearsey and Jinks 1968) were employed to investigate the mode of gene action affecting pupa weight in Tribolium castaneum. Their experimental design involves two inbred lines, the F1 progeny and a segregating population derived from the cross of the inbred lines. In the present experiments, four segregating populations were used.