Challenges and Merits of Choosing Alternative Functional Units

2015 ◽  
pp. 64-79 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Units

Functional anatomy of carnivorous traps

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz J. Płachno ◽  
Lyudmila E. Muravnik
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Functional Anatomy ◽  
Carnivorous Plant ◽  
Carnivorous Plants ◽  
New Type ◽  
Functional Units

We review the current knowledge of trap anatomy of carnivorous plants, with a focus on the diversity and structure of the glands that are used to attract, capture, kill and digest their prey and finally to absorb nutrients from carcasses of prey. These glands have diverse forms. Regardless of their structure and origin, they have the same functional units, but there are differences in subcellular mechanisms and adaptations for carnivory. We propose a new type of carnivorous plant trap—a ‘fecal traps—which has unique physiology, morphology, and anatomy for attracting the animals that are the source of excrement and also to retain and use it.

Estimation by radiation inactivation of the size of functional units governing Sendai and influenza virus fusion

Biochemistry ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (19) ◽  
pp. 6223-6227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Bundo-Morita ◽  
Suzanne Gibson ◽  
John Lenard
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Radiation Inactivation ◽  
Virus Fusion ◽  
Functional Units
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