Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the reflectance properties of soils. In delineating
differences among soils and in describing the characteristics of a soil profile, color is one of …

Fire shapes the distribution of savanna and forest through complex interactions involving
climate, resources and species traits. Based on data from central Brazil, we propose that these …

Glycoconjugates constitute a major class of biomolecules which include glycoproteins,
glycosphingolipids and proteoglycans. Glycans are involved in several physiological and …

The identification of the best reference gene is a critical step to evaluate the relative change
in mRNA expression of a target gene by RT-qPCR. In this work, we evaluated nineteen …

We present initial results of an ESO-VLT large programme (AMAZE) aimed at determining
the evolution of the mass-metallicity relation at z > 3 by means of deep near-IR spectroscopy. …

We present a large set of theoretical isochrones, whose distinctive features mostly reside on
the greatly-improved treatment of the thermally-pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) …

We present a physically motivated model for the early coevolution of massive spheroidal
galaxies and active nuclei at their centers. Within dark matter halos, forming at the rate …

We present models of photometric evolution of galaxies in which the effects of a dusty interstellar
medium have been included with particular care. A chemical evolution code follows the …

We present predictions for the abundance of submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) and Lyman-break
galaxies (LBGs) in the Λ cold dark matter cosmology. A key feature of our model is the self-…

The imprints of domestication and breed development on the genomes of livestock likely differ
from those of companion animals. A deep draft sequence assembly of shotgun reads from …