The effect of stress on meiotic recombination in maize (Zea mays L)

Abstract

Literature Review References 14 CHAPTER 1. Evidence of increased meiotic recombination in response to waterdeficit stress in maize (Zea mays L) genotype B73/Mo17.

Estimating non-Gaussianity in the microwave background

“…Falk, Rangarajan & Srednicki 1993;Luo & Schramm 1993;Hinshaw et al 1994;Gangui et al 1994), the genus and Euler-Poincaré statistic (Coles 1989;Gott et al 1990;Luo 1994b;Smoot et al 1994), peak statistics (Bond & Efstathiou 1987;Kogut et al 1995Kogut et al , 1996 and studies of tensor modes in the CMB (Coulson, Crittenden & Turok 1994). The approach that we take here is to investigate the bispectrum, for which some studies have been made in the largescale structure literature (Hivon et al 1995;Matarrese, Verde & Heavens 1997;Verde et al 1998) and for the CMB (Luo 1994a). There may be sharper tools for detecting specific non-Gaussian models, but the rationale for this approach is that the bispectrum offers a generic test for non-Gaussian models, in the following sense: a general field will have non-zero connected n-point functions at all orders, and the bispectrum is the lowest statistic (with n > 1) for which a Gaussian field has zero expectation value.…”

The non-linear redshift-space power spectrum of galaxies

“…The current generation of galaxy redshift surveys, such as the Anglo-Australian Telescope 2dF survey (Colless 1996) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Gunn & Weinberg 1995), have sufficient space density and volume to look beyond linear theory, and this opens up possibilities of lifting the degeneracy between Q 0 and b, by measuring b empirically through higher order statistics (Matarrese, Verde & Heavens 1997;Verde et al 1998). Higher order studies of the power spectrum have been made in real space by Makino, Sasaki & Suto (1992), Baugh & Efstathiou (1994) and Jain & Bertschinger (1994), and also in an elegant treatment in real and redshift space in the Zel'dovich approximation by Taylor & Hamilton (1996).…”

Leptogenesis: Theory & Neutrino Masses

“…(9), knowledge of the absolute neutrino mass scale is of crucial importance. Hence, a measurement of the neutrino masses m β in tritium β-decay [13] and m 0νββ in neutrinoless double β-decay [14], or the determination of the sum i m i from cosmology [15], consistent with Eq. (9), would strongly support the leptogenesis mechanism.…”