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 Helix aspersa, a snail with a hidden advantage |
Garden snails are evolving slower metabolisms.
Natural selection is favouring snails with reduced metabolic rates, researchers in Chile have discovered.
It is the first time that evolution has been shown to select for this trait in individuals of any species.
Snails with lower metabolisms are at an advantage because they have more energy to spend on other activities such as growth or reproduction, the researchers say in the journal Evolution.
Roberto Nespolo and Paulina Artacho of the Southern University of Chile in Valdivia examined a long standing biological hypothesis known as the "energetic definition of fitness".
"This predicts that animals that spend less energy will have more surplus for survival and reproduction," says Nespolo.
 |  We could recover the dead because of their shells and because they did not move more than a couple of metres each year  Evolutionary biologist Roberto Nespolo |
Few studies have tested the idea, and three done on rodents could not find any evidence it was true. "Ours is the fourth and the first to demonstrate significant directional selection on metabolism," says Nespolo.
Nespolo and Artacho measured the size of almost 100 garden snails (Helix aspersa). They also gauged their standard metabolic rate (SMR), by measuring how much carbon dioxide each animal produced while at rest.
The standard metabolic rate is a measure of the minimal amount of energy an animal requires to stay alive.
"Standard metabolic rate is the energy required for maintenance. In other words, having less maintenance permits you to have more energy for other activities, such as growth and reproduction. That's why less metabolism represents higher fitness," says Nespolo.
After seven months, they recaptured the animals, collecting the empty shells of those which had died.
Survival of the SMR
They found size did not predict which animals survived. But metabolic rate did, with surviving snails having a metabolic rate 20% lower than that of the snails that didn't survive.
And the lower each snail's metabolic rate, the greater its chance of survival. That means that nature is selecting for snails that are more energy efficient, says Nespolo.
Nespolo's and Artacho's study worked in part because of the snails they chose to study.
Previous research examined metabolism in wild mice. But it's impossible to know whether mice that disappear from a study have died, or simply moved away. So it's difficult to accurately measure how many mice survive year to year.
By studying garden snails living in purpose-built enclosures, Nespolo and Artacho avoided this problem, as their snails did not move far and left behind empty shells when they died.
"We could recover the dead because of their shells and because they did not move more than a couple of metres each year," says Nespolo.
Snail's pace
The researchers now plan to answer the ultimate question: is having a slow metabolism linked to moving slowly?
If it is, that means that snails are not only evolving to use energy more slowly, but are increasingly moving at an even lower snail's pace.
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We are WORSE than the SNAIL in Survival Strategy just DYING for a FALSE NATIONALITY, False Identity with SUICIDAL INFIGHT amongst us!
What I have been writing all these days, TRINMUL SUPREMO,the Face of the RESISTANCE Hegemony, the Fire Brand Brahamin GIRL accepted yesterday in her LIVE Press Conference that the VICTIMS of Political Violence and GENOCIDE belong to either SC ST and OBC or Minority Communities. She told that NINE of the Eleven victims inrecent political Violence in bengal belong to the Minority Communities and rest TWO to the Scheduled group.
No BHADRALOK has to be displced,deported, deprived of Home, land, livelihood or LIFE!
The Civil Society and the Intelligentsia are Vertically divided in THREE groups, not TWO.The RULING Hegemony affliated. The Resistance and parivartan affliated GIRRAFE. The NON Political ESCAPISTS and Opportunists and those who are DISILLUSIONED with the Political economy of Inequality, Injustice,Discrimination and Ethnic Cleansing!
Ms Mamta Bannerjee and her tarin cry hard MAA, MAATI Manush without addressing the GENUINE issues ECONOMIC,Social, Justice, Nationality, Identity, Citizenship, Job and Livelihood, Empowerment,Life and Liberty, Liberation, Folk and Folklore, Climate, Bio Cycle, Environment, Pollution, Global Warming, Zionism, Strategic Realliance in US andIsrael lead, GHOST War led by CIA and MOSSAD, Resrvation and Quota, Refugee Problemand EXODUS, ethnic Cleansing!
The Faces of PARVARTAN are as above the GROUND of Human Scape as well as Landscape as the Hoardings are! They REPLICATE Washingtonand its Agencies and DICTATE terms of Change without any involvement with the EMPOWERMENT and LIBERATONof the Aboriginal, Indigenous and Minority Communities!
I am afaraid of MINORITIES being TRAPEED in yet another NET as they have been Betrayed by the RULING Brahaminical hegemony, CROSSING Fence would never open an ESCAPE Route for them either!
Meanwhile, the GENOCIDE MASTER, the ORIGINAL BARGAINER of Power, Jyoti Basu is unlikely to vote in Lok Sabha polls!
West Bengal's ruling Left Front (LF) patriarch Jyoti Basu is unlikely to cast his vote in this Lok Sabha election because of frail health.
"Perhaps this time, Basu will not be able to exercise his franchise in the general election because of his health," the 95-year-old Basu's personal assistant Joykrishna Ghosh said.
This would be the first election when Basu would not be able to vote and he was feeling sad about it, Ghosh said.
"He told me personally that this year he will not be in a position to cast his vote in the election as he is not physically well," he added.
Basu, who resides in the satellite township of Salt Lake, is a voter in the Barasat Lok Sabha seat in North 24 Parganas.
Born on July 8, 1914, in Kolkata to a wealthy family, Basu was the state's chief minister from 1977 to 2000, when he quit voluntarily on health grounds.
We haveAMUSING names of Bus Stops in Sode Pur.For example my own Bus stop KANCH KAL! Then DHAN KAL. RANG KAL. And so on! Denoting the Production Unitswhich are all closed all over the METRO and Its SUURBAN localities reducing the Productive forces into a masse of SUBHUMEN!
Come the NEXT Government whatsoever, as the Disinvestment is Finalised as the LPG mafia have converted the Nation into ISLANDS of Killingfields and the DESI ILLUMINATY Ruling withTri IBLIS satanic AXIS ZIONIST, we all have to be REPLACED with HUMANOIDS andas Rupert Mordoch says, even INTERNET will wither away as the Society, Language, folk, culture and Society and Nation and Only the Sovereign Market will survive with the RULING Class!
This is an Election in the GRAVEYARD!
We haveto chose someone amongst the GHOSTS!
We may not survive or sustain or recover as the SNAILSwould do!
I have written all about the GRAVE yards in the JUTE Industry, Cotton Fields and Mills and all about theInfinite DEATH Procession in the TEA Gardens!
I have also dealt with DRUG and WOMAN trafficking, Starvation, Erosion and Food Insecurity, Man made calamities!
We have to Vote in the Industrial belt tomorrow!
Just remember my story on the FIRE in READYMADE centre, a Shopping Mall in sodepur which is ERECTEDUPON a POND owned by VIDYASAGAR Cotton Mill which is turned into a shopping complex, VIDYASAGAR market! The FIRE burnt 14 lives! The Shopping Mall is OPEN once again and doing HECTIC BUSINESS with Political Patronage!
Every inch of land along with BT Road, GT Road, Jassore Road, Dimond HarbourRoad, Jassore Road and all over the greater KOLKAT is Captured by BUILDERS and Promoters and so has been every possible HOME to be turned into MULTY STORY Infrastructure of Commerce!
The Ganges was the LIFE LINE ILLUMINATED round the CLOCK with Production units! Now it is DARKNESS all over.
More than FIFTY SIX units have been CLOSED and the LAND Captured!
Disinvested ESSOP employes now only Eight Hundred.
TEXMACO a little better: 2000.
HMV, just one Hundred.
BELUR has nothing but to be PAINED with closed INDO JAPAN STEEL Factory.
Tiatagarh paper MILL closed.
BENGAL ANAMEL, PALTA closed.
Dunlop in SAHAGAUNJ is now Closed, now Open and now Laid OFF!
Only in the DUM DUM Parliamentary Constituency the CLOSED UNITS make an infinite list which includes BENI Engineering, Hindustan Iron and Steel.RIC, Sulekha, Bengal Imminuty, CARTER PULLER, Bangashree BANGODAYA, Aarati, Sodepur COTTON MILL, Pioneer match, Deepti Harrican, BIRATI BITRANATI MILL, Nireca Engineering, EMC,CALCUTTA STEEL, hindustan saftey GLASS, KAL Therony, ORIENT FAN, AlluminiumFactory and so on.
DAINIK Statesman has published a story on front page how INDISCRIMINATE LAND ACQUISITION is planned in RAJAR HAT and NEW Town as the ELECTION gets over.
With campaigning for Election 2009 coming to end on Monday and a fractured mandate near certain, West Bengal chief
At the same time Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said post-May 16 all possibilities were open but was sure the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) would return to power. "Those who get annoyed can be mollified," he said cryptically in obvious allusion to whether the estranged Communists would come around to supporting the UPA again. "If an alternate government is formed according to an unified agenda, there is a change in the country's internal, economic and foreign policies, and we can play a meaningful role to achieve that, we will join that government," Bhattacharjee told reporters in Kolkata. The veteran politician, who Manmohan Singh recently described as a friend, added that his party's aim was to form an alternate government, without the two major national parties. "At this moment, we are trying to form a government without Congress, without BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party). This is our basic objective at this moment. Let the elections be over. Let the results be announced. Then we will take a final decision. At this moment of time I just cannot say who is going to support whom." Party insiders said the CPI-M remained divided over backing a UPA dispensation and was also discussing how to pressure the Congress to support a Third Front-led grouping if its partners got the seats. In Ludhiana, meanwhile, in his last leg of campaigning, Manmohan Singh said: "All possibilities will be known after May 16. I would not like to speculate on this. Everything will depend on the numbers." Referring to possible post-poll alliances, he said: "Politics is the art of the possible. Those who got annoyed can be mollified." "I always believed that all secular forces should come together and give a secular government to the country, " he said. "The wider purpose is that secular forces should give a secular government to this country," he added. Taking a dig at the unity show presented by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners a day earlier, the prime minister said that the split in the NDA "is very much there" and would begin to show after the elections. "It is wrong to say that the NDA has not split. The BJD and the TDP (Biju Janata Dal of Orissa and Telugu Desam Party of Andhra Pradesh) are no longer there. The split is very much there. It will be even more after the elections," In Delhi, the Bharatiya Janat Party (BJP) hit out at the UPA, terming it an "Ulta Pulta (topsy turvy) Alliance", and said the ruling coalition had "collaped like a pack of cards hours after Manmohan Singh questioned Janata Dal-United leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's secular claims after sharing a dais with Narendra Modi. "The UPA is an alliance which is non existent and filled with pessimism. I would like to remind the prime minister to look inwards, your house has collapsed like a pack of cards," said BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad. Prasad said the Congress leaders were confused, with some praising Nitish Kumar and others criticising him. | |
LJP denies reports of cracks in alliance with SP, RJD
The Lok Janshakti Party on Tuesday denied reports of fissures in its alliance with the Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal in| |
"We take exception to news reports carried in the media ascribing motives to absence of Ram Vilas Paswan from the rally held in Rampur on May 11," LJP secretary general Abdul Khaliq said.
Terming the media reports as "speculative", Khaliq said, "Ram Vilas Paswan had prior commitments scheduled for the day and the invitation for the rally was received much later. Therefore, it was not possible for him to reschedule commitments already made."
He added that the leaders of all the three parties would hold a meeting on May 14 to discuss their "future course of action".
"The leadership of the three constituents would discuss jointly and decide the strategy on the formation of a secular government at the centre after the polling gets over," Khaliq said.
The LJP secretary general added that the three parties would "jointly contest" assembly polls in Bihar, Jharkhand and UP.
Jadavpur is in for a close fight
11 May 2009, 0328 hrs IST, Arnab Ganguly, TNNFrom the swanky highrises that line the southern tip of Eastern Metropolitan Bypass to the lush green fields at Hatishala (just behind the
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Stretching 30 km from point to point Prince Anwar Shah Road, home to the largest Mall in eastern India, to Bhangor, where farmland is again at the heart of a controversy the mix of urban and rural votes is what makes Jadavpur an interesting seat. Land acquisition, the crucial minority votes and delimitation have made it a tough electoral arena as well.
Jadavpur (in its earlier form) was always a safe seat for CPM be it Lok Sabha or Vidhan Sabha. So much so that after Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee lost the Cossipore Assembly seat in 1982, he moved to Jadavpur. Interestingly, his bete noire Mamata Banerjee too is nostalgic about the seat. It is here that she became a giant-killer, defeating Somnath Chatterjee in the 1984 Lok Sabha polls. That was the beginning of her rise in state politics.
This time around, Mamata is pinning her hopes on a Trinamool win here, riding the land bandwagon which had paid rich dividends to her in the 2008 panchayat polls, white-washing CPM in its stronghold South 24-Parganas. On the other hand, the Jadavpur Assembly seat is chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's constituency and holding fort here is crucial for CPM. But the task won't be easy.
Three Assembly segments Bishnupur East, Behala East and Magrahat West which helped CPM get a decisive lead in the last Lok Sabha election are no longer a part of Jadavpur Parliamentary constituency. Instead the incumbent MP Sujan Chakraborty has to contend with the Assembly seats of Sonarpur North and South, Baruipur East and West, Bhangor and Tollygunge all held by Trinamool.
Besides, land acquisition is still a dirty word in Baruipur and Bhangor. "We did not want to give our land. What difference will it make for us whether the district headquarters is shifted here or not? We haven't even received half of what the land prices are here. Babus from Kolkata come on SUVs. Someone tells us a prison will be built here, some say offices. Who knows what will come up here," fumes Ganesh Dhara of Tongtala, situated at the border of Jadavpur and Diamond Harbour Lok Aabha seats.
This, despite the fact that a signboard declares the site is for the South 24-Parganas district headquarters. The acquisition happened around the same time when Nandigram and Singur were making headlines.
Nearly 500 acres of land were acquired from the mouzas of Jagadishpur, Chak Alalpur, Chakarberia, Bamangachhi, Dhopagachhi, Chandipur, Tongtala and Pirkhali. The minority population in these mouzas numbers around 55,000. The proposed 120-km link road between Kulpi and Kukrahati would have passed through farmlands in Sonarpur and Baruipur, among other places. "Even now we hear that land will be acquired on the right side of Amtala Road after the elections," says Arshad Ali, a farmer.
It is this word-of-mouth campaign that the CPM is desperately trying to counter. Party cadres are going door to door, explaining the benefits of having the district headquarters in Baruipur, both economic and by way of infrastructure.
Unlike Nandigram, where entire villages went against Left Front, in Baruipur CPM can count on the landless labourers, a large chunk of whom make their survival pulling rickshaws. For them the proposed district headquarters hold the possibility of brighter days. "More people coming to town will mean more earning opportunities," said Shambhu Manna, a rickshaw-puller.
Since 1977, Bhangor with a dominant minority votebank was a CPM stronghold. Trinamool wrested the Assembly seat in 2006, riding on the sentiment against land acquisition in Baonta, Hatishala and Bhagabanpur. Though the Trinamool MLA Arabul Islam won by a mere 2,990 votes, with the passage of time the party has increased its presence and control over the area.
Ironically, in 2004, Bhangor (then under Basirhat Lok Sabha seat) had provided a lead of more than 50,000 votes to the CPI candidate. So much has changed since then that CPM leaders are keeping their fingers crossed about which way the vote will swing.
"All the land has been taken over by Hidco. Promoters are also pumping in money. Nobody has been able to stop the selling of land. Now, where I vote is entirely my prerogative," said Golam Sapui, a resident of Baonta, Bhangor. Local Trinamool leader Zulfiqar Molla admits that the movement against acquisition has not stopped private players from buying land.
Pitted against this backdrop CPM will desperately be hoping that the voters in the urban areas of Garia, Tollygunge, Netaji Nagar, Ranikuthi and the new-age apartments spread from Jadavpur to New Garia will come out in support of CPM's new industrialization policy. However, party leaders know painfully well that CPM had trailed heavily in the urban belt comprising Jadavpur, Garia and Tollygunge in the last Lok Sabha polls.
The other two Assembly segments Sonarpur South and North created from Sonarpur which was earlier in Kolkata south Lok Sabha seat have always voted in favour of Mamata Banerjee.
However, Trinamool's candidate for Jadavpur, Kabir Suman, is no Mamata Banerjee. That is one of the reasons why Mamata took out her first roadshow of the election in his support. While his candidature for what is definitely a tough seat was a surprise, only time will tell whether this was Mamata's master stroke to pull in minority voters, or a miscalculated move.
A thorn in Trinamool's flesh is one-time ally and former CPM MP Saifuddin Chowdhury who is also contesting from Jadavpur. The PDS leader has the strong backing of Siddiqullah Chowdhury, general secretary of Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind which has considerable influence on minority voters in the district. "Jadavpur may spring a surprise," says Saifuddin.
Which way Jadavpur goes on May 13 will also be a referendum on the land-for-industry debate.
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ingh 'agreed Left nuclear deal' | ||||
Indian PM Manmohan Singh was ready to let the Left take credit for a final version of the controversial US nuclear deal, his ex-media adviser says. Sajaya Baru told the BBC the prime minister agreed "in the interests of the nation" to allow the Left to say they had forced a better deal. But hardline left-wingers scuppered the compromise, Mr Baru said, and the Left withdrew from the ruling coalition. A senior communist said he was unaware of any such proposal from Mr Singh. "Must be someone acting on their own," Prakash Karat, who heads the Communist Party of India (Marxist), told the BBC. Mr Karat was a staunch opponent of the nuclear accord. 'Compromise formula' Mr Baru said the PM was a "genius of consensual policy making". But he said his job as media adviser was difficult on occasions as Mr Singh would let others take credit for his decisions as PM.
"He would not want me to share with the media how a particular decision of the government was in fact his and not that of someone else who may be claiming, or just being given, the credit for it," Mr Baru said. He said one of those occasions was the US civilian nuclear deal that led to the Left withdrawing support from Mr Singh's Congress-led coalition. Mr Baru said a senior left-wing leader had put forward the compromise that would suggest the Left had "helped secure a better outcome than what the prime minister was capable of securing from the Americans".
"Clearly, Singh was willing to stoop to conquer," Mr Baru said. But the "compromise formula was rejected by the hardliners", Mr Baru said, and Mr Singh "had no option but to show the iron fist in his velvet glove". Mr Baru said Mr Singh always worked through "patient consultation" and got his way "more often than not". This meant that "decision-making takes time and tough decisions don't always get taken", but Mr Baru said Mr Singh's "style of functioning reflects the genius of consensual policy making in the era of coalitions". Mr Baru also spoke of the time Mr Singh visited Indian-administered Kashmir in April 2005 to flag off the first bus service across the Line of Control from Srinagar to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. A militant attack on a tourist complex in Srinagar led Mr Singh's advisers to urge him to call off the trip. Mr Baru said: "The PM was tired and looked deeply worried. The TV in the room was on with visuals of the day's destruction in Srinagar. We stared at the TV without a word. "After what seemed like ages he spoke. 'I will go,' he said, and asked his [private secretary] to connect him to [Congress President Sonia] Gandhi. 'I don't want to postpone tomorrow's programme,' he told her, 'I will go.' She agreed, and said she would go too." | ||||
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