In accordance with morphological modifications, termite soldiers also change their behavioral characteristics dramatically.
Examples go from populations of an epigean widespread species going underground with little morphological modifications to ancient, geographically widespread lineages of exclusively subterranean species likely to have diversified once fully adapted to the subterranean environment.
On the contrary, on SH-SY 5Y cells, no effect of m/p-Akt was detected, with similar morphological modifications both in control and Akt-expressing cells, once more revealing the Akt inability to exert its 'usual' anti-apoptotic activity in this cellular setting.
The chitosan effect on the soil burial degradation of polylactic acid plasticized with tributyl o-acetyl citrate (ATBC) was studied by weight loss measurements, changes in average molecular weight and its distribution, mechanical, thermal and surface properties correlated with structural and morphological modifications.
Many of these are either species poor subterranean lineages or a mix of hypogean and epigean species, with different degrees of morphological modifications and ecological specialisation.
Comparative studies of boron-doped diamonds electrodes (polycrystalline, single-crystalline, H-/O-terminated, and with different sp3/sp2 ratios) indicate morphological modifications of diamond which are initiated by corrosion at nanoscale.
The Alpine region harbours one of the most diverse subterranean faunas in the world, with many species showing extreme morphological modifications.
SnO2, with high theoretical capacity of 1494 mAh g−1, is a promising candidate anode material, which has been explored with various strategies, such as dimensional reduction, morphological modifications and composite formation.
In vitro experiments have shown previously that SERPINB3 determines morphological modifications characterised by elongated shape and decrease of desmosomal junctions associated with a remarkable accumulation of β-catenin and E-cadherin downregulation (Quarta et al, 2010).
Fragments of all treated and untreated stone samples were observed with an S360 SEM instrument (Cambridge Instruments) to evaluate the morphological modifications after nanocomposite application.
