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Cellist, human rights crusader Mstislav Rostropovich dies at age 80
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MOSCOW -- Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who
fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later
triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall,
died Friday. He was 80.
Rostropovich died in a Moscow cancer hospital, the ITAR-Tass news
agency reported. Rostropovich's spokeswoman, Natalia Dollezhal,
confirmed to The Associated Press that he had died but she did not
provide other details.
Rostropovich, who resided in Paris after self-imposed exile,
suffered from intestinal cancer.
"The passing of Mstislav Rostropovich is a bitter blow to our
culture," ...
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Analysis of expressed sequence tags from a naked foraminiferan Reticulomyxa filosa.
Magazine article from: Genome
; ...tag (EST) from the freshwater naked foraminiferan Reticulomyxa filosa. Cluster analysis...Sen Gupta 1999), most aspects of foraminiferan molecular biology are still poorly...EST) project on the freshwater naked foraminiferan Reticulomyxa filosa. Unlike other...
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GIANT BATHYSIPHON (ASTRORHIZINA: FORAMINIFERA) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS HUNTERS COVE FORMATION, SOUTHWESTERN OREGON
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology
; ...Complex of northern California, may be the largest fossil foraminiferan ever collected with an estimated test length of approximately...outer surface. The taphonomy and paleoecology of this giant foraminiferan are briefly evaluated based on comparison with modern examples...
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Reports by J.D. Sigwart and co-researchers describe recent advances in marine biology.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation
; ...of the host shell are indicative of parasitism, as evidenced both by wound healing calcification and protrusions of the foraminiferan tubules. The epibionts employ different feeding strategies at different stages of their life cycle, taking advantage of...
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Research findings from University of Versailles update understanding of limnology.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation
; ...s(-1)) conditions. At one temperature (24 degrees C) the respiration rate increased as a power function of the foraminiferan organic carbon mass with a 0.57 +/- 0.18 exponent," investigators in France report. "The effect of temperature...
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Surviving mass extinction by leading a double life.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation
; ...data we have been able to prove that the planktonic species Streptochilus globigerus and the benthic - sediment living - foraminiferan Bolivina variabilis are one and the same biological species. Moreover, geochemical evidence shows that this species actively...
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Marine microplanktons may have survived mass extinction by taking refuge on sea floor.
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...data we have been able to prove that the planktonic species Streptochilus globigerus and the benthic - sediment living - foraminiferan Bolivina variabilis are one and the same biological species." "Moreover, geochemical evidence shows that this species...
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AGGLUTINATED PROTISTS FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN OF NEVADA
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology
; ...Eichwald, 1860; Rozanov, 1983; Brasier, 1989b), but the similarity of its morphology and wall structure to the foraminiferan genus Bathysiphon Sars, 1872 (e.g., Glaessner, 1978), and the presence of proloculi in Platysolenites (e.g...
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HARPACTOCARCINUS FROM THE EOCENE OF ISTRIA, CROATIA, AND THE PALEOECOLOGY OF THE ZANTHOPSIDAE VIA, 1959 (CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA: BRACHYURA)
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology
; ...contain a rich foraminiferal assemblage, composed of larger and planktonic foraminifera along with authigenic glauconite (foraminiferan identifications after Toumarkine and Luterbacher, 1985; Less, 1987). Larger foraminifera assemblages with flat nummulitids...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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ANTARTIC QUEST WHY WOULD A STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SCIENTIST FLY TO THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD? TO BRING BACK A SUPPLY OF SINGLE-CELLED PROTOZA, NATCH.(Life & Leisure)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...bottom of the world and to the bottom of the sea in search of a most remarkable organism: Astrammina rara, a carnivorous foraminiferan. In other words, it's a very small animal that eats meat and anything else it can lay its pseudopodia (threads of cytoplasm...
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A sedimentological and cyclostratigraphic evaluation of the completeness of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian (Mid-Carboniferous) Global Stratotype Section and Point, Arrow Canyon, Nevada, USA
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...pointing to the occurrence of several palaeosols at the boundary interval and the insufficient resolution of conodont- or foraminiferan-based biostratigraphic schemes to establish the temporal significance of these diastems (Riley et al. 1994; Riley 1998...
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