Sharks that venture into brackish water, such as estuaries, river mouths, and mangrove swamps, are often highly adaptable ...

A new study offers the first direct evidence that deep-dwelling mesopelagic fish, which account for up to 94 percent of global fish biomass, excrete carbonate minerals at rates comparable to ...

This manuscript develops a theoretical model of osmotic pressure adaptation in microbes by osmolyte production and wall synthesis. The prediction of a rapid increase in growth rate on osmotic shock is ...

Abstract: Many processes in natural biological systems, such as chemotaxis in bacteria and osmoregulation in yeast, rely on control architectures fundamentally equivalent to commonly used motifs from ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The total amount of water in slices of the renal cortex of adult rats was determined after they had been exposed to saline solutions with ...

1 Key Laboratory of Tropical & Subtropical Fishery Resource Application & Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery ...

Water is essential to life. Terrestrial insects lose water by evaporation from the body surface and respiratory surfaces, as well as in the excretory products, posing a challenge made more acute by ...

Jawless fishes (agnathans), one of the oldest groups of living vertebrates, provide a unique opportunity to study the origin and divergence of genes as well as the evolution of hormone function. We ...

Low-salinity stress can severely affect the fitness of marine organisms. As desalination has been predicted for many coastal areas with ongoing climate change, it is crucial to gain more insight in ...

The causative agent of Chagas disease undergoes drastic morphological and biochemical modifications as it passes between hosts and transitions from extracellular to intracellular stages. The osmotic ...