By Ellen Meloy
Lengthy believed to be disappearing and probably even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a shocking comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of those majestic creatures via backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels around the Southwest. on my own within the desolate tract, Meloy chronicles her communion with the bighorns and laments the growing to be severance of guy from nature, a severance that she feels has left us spiritually hungry. Wry, quirky and perceptive, Eating Stone is a brillant and absolutely unique tribute to the wildlife.
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The declines occurred on a timescale equal to, or slightly less than, a single generation of these species. All of the species apart from N. chemnitzi also declined by 25–57% in mean size over the 17-year period (see supplementary information). The survey data are not adequate for full assessment of the situation for other deep-sea fish species that may also be at risk. 0 1975 1980 1985 Year 1990 1995 Figure 1 | Trends in relative abundance of five species of deep-sea fish. Weighted relative abundance (number per tow) over time from research-survey data, showing the estimated exponential decline (red line) and 95% confidence projections of the estimate (dashed lines) for five deep-sea species in the Canadian waters of the northwest Atlantic, 1978–94.
8. Haedrich, R. , Merrett, N. R. & O’Dea, N. R. Fish. Res. 51, 113–122 (2001). 9. Moore, J. A. & Mace, P. M. Fisheries 24, 22–23 (1999). Supplementary information accompanies this communication on Nature’s website. Competing financial interests: declared none. com/bca see Nature contents. 8 20 c 0 2,000 4,000 0 Frequency of different consumer and resource types 0 2,000 4,000 b a 0 A variety of mechanisms can theoretically produce competitive coexistence in nature1, making it hard to identify a single explanation for the maintenance of diversity in any particular system.
Subsequent refolding and assembly of HRA and HRB into a six-helix bundle (6HB) occurs, placing the fusion peptides and the transmembrane domains in proximity13,17. Formation of the 6HB and the associated free-energy change are tightly linked to merger of the viral and cellular membranes16,18. The isolated F 6HB structure, generated from HRA and HRB peptides17,19, is stable up to 100 8C and is thought to represent the lowest-energy conformation of the protein after membrane fusion. We previously reported the structure of the uncleaved, secreted hPIV3 F0 ectodomain (solF0), truncated before the transmembrane domain20.