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Convergent evolution: What do cats, catnip, aphids, and mosquitoes have in common?
J Biosci
December 2024
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Biosciences,Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science,Bengaluru 560012,India.
The well-known English naturalist John Ray wrote more than 200 years ago about the curious reaction of cats to a plant in the mint or Lamiaceae family, the catnip plant . Ray even wrote a short verse about the relationship between cats and catnip: 'If you set it the cats will eat it; If you sow it the cats can't know it' (Considine 2016). When leaves of this plant are bruised and release their volatiles, cats react by attempting to rub and roll over on the leaves, seeming to be in a state of ecstasy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new monotypic genus Trusmaditetrix gen. nov. (type species: Trusmaditetrix complanata sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA convenient "inconvenience": The eponymous legacy of Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915).
J Hist Neurosci
August 2017
a University of Queensland School of Medicine, Brisbane , Australia.
A century since his passing, the legacy of the great Victorian clinical neurologist, Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915), remains traceable to students and practitioners of medicine worldwide through eponymous medical terms named in his honor. Popular designations like "Gowers' sign" continue to lead curious minds to learn more about the pioneering neurologist's lifework and influence, and yet Gowers himself was not fond of medical eponyms. Memorably remarking that eponyms were an educational "inconvenience" in medicine, Gowers was apt to disfavor the system in the very same lecture in which he reportedly first referred to the spinal cord fasciculus that later took his name.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Case conference of hematological diseases based on the morphology of blood cells: Chairman's introductory remarks].
Rinsho Byori
April 2013
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki 701-0192, Japan.
A case conference of hematological diseases based on the morphology of blood cells was held as a Joint Symposium of JSLM and JSLH. Four cases were presented and discussed mainly from the viewpoint of morphology: a case of acute leukemia with basophilia, two cases of acute leukemia and another malignancy, and a case of bone marrow invasion of malignant melanoma. Each case included pathological and curious morphological findings to be carefully examined and intensively discussed by the commentators and participants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhat would T. H. Huxley have made of prion diseases?
Mol Biotechnol
July 2003
Innes Building, School of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OEs, England.
T. H. Huxley was "Darwin's bulldog," and took the offensive in championing the cause of evolution against skeptical scientists and outraged theologians.
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