ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF SOLVENT-ASSISTED LIPID BILAYERS FORMED AT DIFFERENT PHASES AND AQUEOUS BUFFER MEDIA: A QCM-D STUDY

Supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) are low-complexity biomimetic membranes, serving as popular experimental platforms to study membrane organization and lipid transfer, membrane uptake of nanoparticles and biomolecules, and many other processes.Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring has been utilized to probe the influence of several

Extra-pair copulation can increase genetic diversity and offspring fitness.However, it may also increase intra-nest variability in avian hosts of brood parasites, which can decrease the discrimination ability of host parents towards the parasite.In New Caledonia, the Fan-tailed Gerygone (Gerygone flavolateralis), which is parasitized by the Shining