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I am easy going by nature. If you any serious interests, contact me, if not, it has been fun. Recent: Costa Rica Visit my Beach home in OBX NC Germany then Family Wedding in Poland Ireland, Poland, Tuscany - Italy Joined Williamsburg photography group Met with Kevin Fleming of National Geographics had a workshop to improve my Professional Photography Leaning Club Salsa, swing and doing shag dance often Planned Buying Home in Costa Rica Beleze Greece Like to travel? I am Looking for travel companion LAST YEAR Peru, Machu Picchu Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Nasara, Costa Rica Florence I am passionate, love doing things out doors but can also enjoy a rainy day. Enjoy Taking dance Lessons. Would love to have a partner. I am a runner, Do weights and Yoga. Like to cook, I am a social drinker, a non smoker, no children. Retired Federal Professional Civil servant Turned Professional Photographer and Entrepreneur. Two associates degrees, workshops and now classes and workshops in photography. A home downtown Hampton and a Home in the OBX. Love to walk on the beach or around the marina at sunset. Like to travel. Experience new things with a sense of adventure. Like to be around friends. I take care of my self. Wake up in the morning and watch the seagulls and Egrets then go for a run or do Yoga. Want to share life's experiences? Do things together? Laugh over a glass of wine, hold hands, dream. I am a great conversationist. Life is short
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Updated: 02/29/2012 - Several troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol, as well as other employees from the Department of Public Safety, will be volunteering their time to raise money for Special Olympics Nevada this Friday, March 2nd.
Posted: 02/27/2012 - One group of people often gets lost in the hustle and bustle of day to day life in Reno. One non-profit organization wants to make sure the growing homeless population in our area aren't forgotten.
Updated: 02/27/2012 - Billinghurst Middle School presents Willy Wonka Junior on March 2 and 3rd. Call 775-746-5870 for tickets. Ticket prices are 10.00 reserved and general admission is 5.00.
Updated: 02/27/2012 - Having a family and raising kids is already challenging, but what if one of your children was diagnosed with Type I diabetes?
Posted: 02/27/2012 - Join the Wooster Colts for their 10th annual fundraiser to help continue their softball and baseball programs.
Updated: 02/24/2012 - The Veterans' Guest House in Reno has won the Aprons in Action contest, winning a $25,000 gift card from the Home Depot. Voting ended Thursday at www.facebook.com/homedepotfoundation.
Updated: 02/24/2012 - A disabled Reno woman and her ailing service dog are returning to Reno after a week's stay at a renowned veterinary hospital in California.
Updated: 02/27/2012 - Restoring HOPE for Restart and is a wine, tea, art and music fundraising event put on by Phi Alpha to help community efforts to reduce and prevent homelessness.
Posted: 02/23/2012 - Three local police agencies have partnered to offer permanent locations to drop off unwanted or unused prescription drugs for safe disposal.
Posted: 02/20/2012 - Adoption fees are out the window this Presidents' Day with a name-your-price sale at the Nevada Humane Society's Reno animal shelter.
Updated: 02/22/2012 - Our local branch of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has seen donations drop by $200,000 over the past year, and that drop in funding could be putting women here at risk.
Posted: 02/19/2012 - A Reno woman suffering from diabetes and renal failure can't afford her treatment. Her partner is seeking help from the community through fundraising.
Posted: 02/18/2012 - Just when luck and funding seemed ready to run out, people keep stepping up to save Haley, the service dog, who guards a disabled Reno woman.
Updated: 02/17/2012 - Students at two Reno elementary schools got a big treat Thursday: boxes and boxes of books.
Posted: 02/17/2012 - Doctors at UC Davis Veterinary Hospital are closer to identifying the mystery illness threatening the service dog for a local disabled woman.
Updated: 02/16/2012 - The search continues for what is ailing the 7-year-old service dog who helps Adrienne Barlow, but the search is being narrowed. Thursday afternoon, veterinarians will perform an MRI on Haley.
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Rows of tiny raised blowfly corneas may be the key to easy manufacturing of biomimetic surfaces, surfaces that mimic the properties of biological tissues, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
"Bioreplication began about 2001 or 2002," said Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics. "All the techniques currently available are not conducive to mass replications. In many cases you can make as many replicas as you want, but you need an insect for each replication. This is not good for industrial purposes."
Lakhtakia, working with Drew Patrick Pulsifer, graduate student in engineering science and mechanics; Carlo G. Pantano, distinguished professor of materials science and engineering and director of Penn State's Materials Research Institute; and Ral Jos Martn-Palma, professor of applied physics, Universidad Autnomia de Madrid, Spain, developed a method to create macroscale molds or dies that retain nanoscale features.
"We needed an object large enough to manipulate that still had nanoscale features," said Lakhtakia.
The researchers chose blowfly eyes because they have potential application in the manufacture of solar cells. Blowflies have compound eyes that are roughly hemispherical; but within that half sphere, the surface is covered by macroscale hexagonal eyes with nanoscale features.
"These eyes are perfect for making solar cells because they would collect more sunlight from a larger area rather than just light that falls directly on a flat surface," said Lakhtakia.
However, in order to work in a manufactured product, the surface needs to retain the overall design in sufficient detail.
The researchers fixed the fly corneas on a glass substrate and filled the back of the corneas with polydimethylsiloxane, a silicone-based organic polymer, so that the metal covering they apply would not seep behind the eyes. They then deposited nickel on the surface u
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In a little more than a year, a regional push to cap greenhouse gases has raised millions for Maryland energy programs, with supporters calling it a model for easing climate change on a national or even global scale.
Since September 2008, Maryland and nine other Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states have been participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. In its "cap and trade" regulatory scheme, emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants have been capped and plant operators are required to buy permits for all the gas that their facilities release into the atmosphere.


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George Osborne today axed the beer duty escalator and announced that he was "taking a penny off the pint", in his Budget, which he claimed "doesn't duck the nation's problems, but confronts them head on."
However, the cut in the price of beer will be paid for by increases in other alcohol duties, with the price of a bottle of wine rising by 10p and spirits by 38p.
The axing of the beer escalator, which was introduced in 2008 and puts the price of a pint up by 2% above inflation every year, follows lobbying from the beer industry.
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Brigid Simmonds, BBPA chief executive, said: "By cutting the tax on beer, he [Osborne] has moved to boost jobs in Britain's pubs at a time when it is most needed.
"In also abolishing the beer tax escalator, the Chancellor has ended a hugely damaging policy that would have made Britain's beer the most heavily taxed in Europe."
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Previous research has shown that children with a longer variant of the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) are more likely to do poorly in school due to shorter attention spans. So Adriana Bus at Leiden University in the Netherlands compared how well 182 4-year-olds, 40 per cent with the variant, performed in electronic reading games when supportive feedback was switched on or off.
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Be careful, it advised, your reaction could be misconceived as inhospitable.
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Sergio Aguayo Quezada (b. September 10, 1947, in La Rivera, Jalisco, Mexico) is a Mexican academic and human rights activist. He has been a professor and researcher for El Colegio de México since 1977 and a member of the Mexican Researchers National System (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.)
Sergio Aguayo is a Researcher at Colegio de México and has taught at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and been a guest teacher at various national and international universities.
He was a founding member of the newspaper La Jornada and the magazine Este País. He is a columnist for Reforma and other Mexican newspapers, and participates as an analyst on the television show Primer Plano, a political analysis show broadcast on the Instituto Politécnico Nacional's XEIPN (Channel 11), for which he received the José Pagés Llergo Journalism Prize. Additionally, he is a guest columnist for the Spanish newspaper El País.
Sergio Aguayo received his BA in International Relations at El Colegio de México. He obtained his Masters, PhD and postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins' Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). From 1990 to 1996 he was President of the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos (Mexican Academy of Human Rights), and from 1994 to 1999 he was a member of the National Coordination of Alianza Cívica (Civic Alliance). He currently presides over the Asociación Política Nacional Propuesta Cívica (National Political Alliance Civic Proposal). Dr. Aguayo is President of the Board of Directors of Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación.
- Vuelta en U. Guía para reactivar la democracia estancada, (U-turn. Guide to reactive the stagnated democracy), Taurus, 2010
- La transición en México. Una historia documental 1910-2010 (Transition in Mexico. A documentary history 1910-201), Colegio de México y Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010
- The Mexican Alamanac (2008)
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I'll start by confessing that I'm not a big fan of Horror films. Don't get me wrong, they are cool. I just haven't seen too many of them. So, I'm kind of a newbie to this genre. This one came highly recommended by numerous friends and acquaintances. So, I decided to check it out.
What stood out the most to me in this one was the way it was shot. It wasn't shot on 35mm film, like most films and a lot of the shots were done hand-held, instead of using a tripod. While it's true that other horror films do these things as well, this one pulled off a nice balance between making it feel more personal, but not looking too "low-budget." And they get many props for using a Godspeed You Black Emperor! song in the soundtrack. All of these things give this film a lot of style and mood.
But, let's not forget about the best part of all, the zombies! Unlike the slow moving zombies of other movies, these ones are fast and extra creepy. There are plenty of good scares and gruesomeness spread throughout.
The only thing I wasn't too into about the film was its story. It's all interesting and progresses nicely, until about 2/3 of the way through, where it just takes an odd turn. It seemed like the movie was following this linear progression, until the characters ended up at a military base. There, new characters are introduced and it the plot changes up a bit. I understand the need to keep the story evolving, but it seemed like it almost jumped into a different movie all together at that point.
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NAIROBI is among top 10 cities in Sub Saharan Africa that promises the best investment returns for businesses by year 2040, according to consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
In a report titled 'Africa: Growth is on the horizon but where should you look?' the research and consultancy firm said the population trends in the 10 cities in SSA will double adding that by 2030, these areas have the potential to triple their combined GDP, rising by around $140 billion .
The cities are Ibadan, Adis Ababa, Ouagadougou , Dakar , Kano , Nairobi , Abidjan , Khartoum , Luanda , and Dar es Salaam , respectively.
"Most large western corporations are already active in either Kinshasa, Johannesburg or Lagos, the top three largest cities in SSA. However, we think that the real opportunity lies in the next 10 largest cities," it said.
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|For crust
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|15 Ounce, softened
|Semisweet baking chocolate/Chocolate candy bar
|2 Ounce (Dark Variety)
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|For peanut layer
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3) Place the crust in pie plate and gently press at the bottom and up side.
4) Trim the edges if required.
5) Bake for 9 to 11 minutes.
6) Let stand for 30 minutes to cool completely.
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8) Melt and stir over very low heat until smooth.
9) Spread the mixture at the bottom and up side of cooled baked shell.
10) Chill for about 10 minutes until chocolate is set.
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12) Melt and stir over low heat until mixture is smooth.
13) Add 1 1/2 cups peanuts and mix until well coated.
14) Transfer immediately into chocolate-lined crust.
15) In a 1-quart heavy saucepan add 8 oz dark chocolate and 2 tablespoons butter.
16) Melt and stir over very low heat until smooth.
17) Cool slightly for about 10 minutes.
18) In a small bowl add 1 cup whipping cream and vanilla.
19) Beat with electric mixer on high speed until soft peaks form.
20) Add 1/3 whipped cream into chocolate mixture and gently fold in remaining whipped cream.
21) Spoon over the peanut layer and spread evenly.
22) Refrigerate the mixture for 2 hours until set.
23) In 1-quart heavy saucepan, add all topping ingredients.
24) Melt and stir over very low heat until smooth.
24) Scrape the side of pan.
25) Spoon or pipe whipped cream around tart edge.
26) Drizzle with topping and sprinkle peanuts over it.
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Wall Street fell sharply again Friday after the government's much-anticipated employment report showed weaker-than-expected job growth and a rise in the unemployment rate.
The Nasdaq composite index, also pummeled by a downgrade of Intel intc, skidded 3.8%, while the Dow Jones industrials fell more than 1.5%.
The Labor Department's report that employers raised payrolls by only 18,000 and that the nation's unemployment rate rose to its highest level since November 2005 unnerved investors, who worried that a weakening job market will hurt consumer spending and tip the economy toward recession.
The technology-focused Nasdaq fell for the sixth straight session and showed its steepest percentage decline since a market pullback on Feb. 27 last year. The Nasdaq declined 98.03, or 3.8%, to 2504.65, in part after the downgrade of Intel, but also because its smaller-capitalization components are seen as more vulnerable in an economic slowdown.
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The December report showed employers added the fewest jobs to their payrolls since August 2003. Economists had predicted a jobs growth figure of about 70,000 and an unemployment rate of 4.8%. Instead, unemployment climbed to 5% in December from 4.7% in November. While 5% unemployment is still considered good by historical standards, the increase from November clearly made some investors nervous.
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Melon, Cucumis melo, and cucumber, C. sativus, are among the most widely cultivated crops worldwide. Cucumis, as traditionally conceived, is geographically centered in Africa, with C. sativus and C. hystrix thought to be the only Cucumis species in Asia. This taxonomy forms the basis for all ongoing Cucumis breeding and genomics efforts. We tested relationships among Cucumis and related genera based on DNA sequences from chloroplast gene, intron, and spacer regions (rbcL, matK, rpl20-rps12, trnL, and trnL-F), adding nuclear internal transcribed spacer sequences to resolve relationships within Cucumis.
Analyses of combined chloroplast sequences (4,375 aligned nucleotides) for 123 of the 130 genera of Cucurbitaceae indicate that the genera Cucumella, Dicaelospermum, Mukia, Myrmecosicyos, and Oreosyce are embedded within Cucumis. Phylogenetic trees from nuclear sequences for these taxa are congruent, and the combined data yield a well-supported phylogeny. The nesting of the five genera in Cucumis greatly changes the natural geographic range of the genus, extending it throughout the Malesian region and into Australia. The closest relative of Cucumis is Muellerargia, with one species in Australia and Indonesia, the other in Madagascar. Cucumber and its sister species, C. hystrix, are nested among Australian, Malaysian, and Western Indian species placed in Mukia or Dicaelospermum and in one case not yet formally described. Cucumis melo is sister to this Australian/Asian clade, rather than being close to African species as previously thought. Molecular clocks indicate that the deepest divergences in Cucumis, including the split between C. melo and its Australian/Asian sister clade, go back to the mid-Eocene.
Based on congruent nuclear and chloroplast phylogenies we conclude that Cucumis comprises an old Australian/Asian component that was heretofore unsuspected. Cucumis sativus evolved within this Australian/Asian clade and is phylogenetically far more distant from C. melo than implied by the current morphological classification.
Knowing the closest relatives and natural composition of the genus Cucumis L. is important because of ongoing efforts by plant breeders worldwide to improve melon (C. melo) and cucumber (C. sativus) with traits from wild relatives [1]. Next to tomatoes and onion, melon and cucumber may be the most widely cultivated vegetable species in the world [2]. Economic interest from breeders also led to the sequencing of the complete chloroplast genome of C. sativus [3]. Evolutionarily, Cucumis organellar genomes are unusually labile [4-7], and major chromosome rearrangements are thought to have taken place during the evolution of Cucumis. Cucumis sativus is the only species in the genus with a chromosome number of n = 7, which is thought to have evolved from a presumed ancestral karyotype with n = 12, but details of this reduction in chromosome number have remained unclear. Thus, the genus Cucumis holds great interest as a system in which to study the evolution of organellar and nuclear genomes, and there are also several ongoing efforts to map the genomes of C. melo and C. sativus [8].
Ongoing work on Cucurbitales and Cucurbitaceae [9,10] has resulted in the generation of sequence data for a dense sample of taxa that together represent 21% of the family's 800 species and 95% of its 130 genera (following the most recent classification, 11]. Early results from this work suggested that Cucumis might not be monophyletic. We sought to test the monophyly of Cucumis by analyzing a broad sample of taxa based on Kirkbride's biosystematic monograph of the genus [12], other recent studies [10,13], and geographical considerations (independent of traditional assessments of morphology). Robust phylogenetic trees for Cucumis might also shed light on the ancestral areas of C. melo and C. sativus. It is thought that C. sativus originated and was domesticated in Asia, while C. melo is though to have originated in eastern Africa [14], but with secondary centers of genetic diversity in the Middle East and India [15] and perhaps also China [16]. The center of Cucumis evolution is thought to be Africa [12].
The circumscription of Cucumis dates back to Linnaeus [17], with the most significant modern change being the separation of Cucumella Chiovenda in 1929, which has become generally accepted [11-13,18]. The two genera differ only in the shape of their thecae, those of Cucumella being straight or slightly curved, those of Cucumis strongly curved and folded. Within the genus Cucumis, two subgenera are generally accepted, subgenus Melo (30 species, including C. melo), with most species in Africa and a chromosome n = 12, and subgenus Cucumis (2 species, C. sativus and C. hystrix), which is confined to Asia and has chromosome numbers of n = 12 and n = 7 [12,19].
Molecular phylogenetic studies of Cucumis have sampled up to 16 species of Cucumis for chloroplast restriction sites and nuclear isozymes, nuclear ribosomal DNA from the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, microsatellite markers, and a combination of RAPDs and chloroplast markers [1,20-22]. With one exception, these studies included only recognized species of Cucumis. A further handicap was that the sister group of Cucumis was unknown, so that trees could not be rooted reliably. Only Garcia-Mas et al. [22] sampled a potential relative, Oreosyce africana, material of which they received under the name Cucumis membranifolius Hook. f. and found embedded among species of Cucumis (see Results and Discussion for a problem with the identification of this material). Morphological similarities, however, argue for adding more representatives from African and Asian genera to phylogenetic analyses of Cucumis. Besides Cucumella, Dicaelospermum C. B. Clarke, Mukia Arn., Muellerargia Cogn., Myrmecosicyos C. Jeffrey, and Oreosyce Hook. all share key traits with Cucumis [summarized in [23]]. The most recent morphology-based classification of Cucurbitaceae [11] includes five more genera in the tribe Cucumerinae, to which Cucumis belongs. No representatives of Cucumerinae were included in previous molecular studies of Cucumis.
Because of the doubtful morphological separation from its supposed closest relative, Cucumella [12,13,18], and the insufficient sampling of other potentially related genera, the status of Cucumis as a monophyletic genus has remained equivocal. Here we address the three questions, Is Cucumis monophyletic? What is the closest relative of Cucumis? And what are the closest relatives of cucumber and melon?, using a two-pronged approach that involves chloroplast sequence data for all relevant genera of Cucurbitaceae and combined nuclear and chloroplast data for species of Cucumis, Cucumella, Dicaelospermum, Mukia, Muellerargia, Myrmecosicyos, and Oreosyce. Analysis of the combined data unexpectedly revealed that a monophyletic Cucumis lineage includes an Australian/Asian clade in which cucumber, C. sativus, is nested. This then raised the questions about the timing of the Australian connections, which we address with molecular clock dating.
Results and Discussion
The non-monophyly of Cucumis and why it remained undiscovered; comparison with earlier molecular phylogenies
Parsimony (MP) and maximum likelihood (ML) analyses of combined sequences from the chloroplast genes rbcL and matK, the chloroplast intron trnL, and the spacers rpl20-rps12 and trnL-F, under the GTR + G + I model yielded a topology (Fig. 1) that was congruent with that obtained from the nuclear internal transcribed spacer region (Fig. 2). Chloroplast and nuclear data were therefore combined, and a parsimony tree from the combined data with MP and ML bootstrap support is shown as Fig. 3 (seven of the species lack ITS sequences, Table 1). In the family-wide analysis (with 123 of 130 genera of Cucurbitaceae sequenced), Cucumis is sister to Muellerargia (Fig. 4). The genera Cucumella, Dicaelospermum, Mukia, Myrmecosicyos, and Oreosyce are embedded among species of Cucumis (Fig. 3). The remaining genera of Cucumerinae sensu C. Jeffrey [11], Cucumeropsis Naudin, Melancium Naudin, Melothria L., Posadaea Cogn., and Zehneria Endl. (plus Neoachmandra and Scopellaria [24]) group far from Cucumis (Fig. 4). This fits with their geographic concentration in the New World (where Cucumis is absent): Melancium is a monotypic genus from Brazil, Posadaea a monotypic genus from tropical America, and Melothria has ten species in Central America and South America. However, Cucumeropsis, with a single species from tropical Africa, and Zehneria, Neoachmandra, and Scopellaria, with 66 species in tropical and subtropical Africa, Madagascar, Asia, New Guinea, and Australia [24] overlap with the natural range of Cucumis.
Figure 1. Maximum likelihood tree for Cucumis based on combined sequences from chloroplast genes, introns, and a spacer (details see Table 1). The tree is rooted on Muellerargia, the closest relative of Cucumis, based on the family phylogeny shown in Fig. 4. Parsimony bootstrap values (> 85%) based on 1000 replicates above branches and ML bootstrap values from 100 replicates below branches.
Figure 2. Parsimony tree for Cucumis based on sequences from the nuclear internal transcribed spacer, rooted on Muellerargia as in Fig. 1. Bootstrap values (> 65%) at branches are based on 1000 replicates. The genera marked with red lines are nested in Cucumis, and their species will need to be transferred to make Cucumis monophyletic. Species with the letters GM (Garcia-Mas) are from [22], while species labeled HS were generated for this study. The GenBank sequence labeled '?Oreosyce africana?' is from misidentified material (see text).
Figure 3. Parsimony tree for Cucumis based on the combined chloroplast and nuclear data and rooted on Muellerargia as in Fig. 1. Parsimony bootstrap values (> 75%) based on 1000 replicates above branches and ML bootstrap values from 100 replicates below branches. Species on pale grey background occur in Africa (C. prophetarum extends into India); the clade marked in grey-green occurs in Australia, the Malaysian region, Indochina, China, and India (Mukia maderaspatana extends into the Yemen and sub-Saharan Africa; see Table 1 for geographic ranges); the natural range of melon (C. melo) is unclear. Information on chromosome numbers is from the Index to Plant Chromosome Numbers database available online at the Missouri Botanical Garden's web site.
Table 1. Species and loci sequenced, their sources and geographic provenience, GenBank accession numbers, and status as nomenclatural types.
Figure 4. Detail of one of highest global likelihood trees for Cucurbitaceae obtained from combined chloroplast sequences (matK, rbcL, the trnL intron and spacer, and the rpl20-rps12 spacer; 4,966 aligned nucleotides; GTR + G), with parsimony bootstrap values based on 100 replicates shown at branches. Modified from 10, which contains the full tree with all 123 genera. Highlighted are the Cucumis clade and the genera of Cucumerinae in the most recent morphological classification (11).
The sister genus to Cucumis, Muellerargia, consists of one species in Madagascar and one in Indonesia and Queensland. Both are herbaceous trailers or climbers with straight or apically reflexed anthers and softly spinose fruits. Muellerargia has never been recognized as closely related to Cucumis [12,25], perhaps because it is extremely poorly collected, with but a few specimens even in major herbaria: The Madagascan species, Muellerargia jeffreyana Keraudren, is known from three collections (in the Paris herbarium), and permission was not granted to sacrifice material for this study. It is morphologically similar to the Indonesian-Australian species M. timorensis Cogn. [26]. The poor documentation of the genus in herbaria also led to the Australian species being described at least three times; first as Muellerargia timorensis Cogn., then as Melothria subpellucida Cogn., and then as Zehneria ejecta Bailey (syn. Melothria ejecta (Bailey) Cogn.).
The Cucumis species relationships found here differ from those found in earlier studies [1,20-22]. An unrooted nuclear isozyme tree [21] showed C. sativus as the genetically most distant species, while C. melo was sister to an African clade. The neighbor-joining tree from nuclear ITS sequences of Garcia-Mas et al. [22] was rooted on Citrullus lanatus and Cucurbita pepo, and showed C. sativus as the first-branching species in the genus, while C. melo was sister to a large African clade. Finally, the chloroplast tree of Chung et al. [1] also was rooted on Citrullus and showed C. sativus and C. hystrix as sister to C. melo (as did studies focusing on C. sativus; e.g., [27]). By contrast, the data presented here (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4) indicate that (i) the deepest divergence in Cucumis is between C. hirsutus and C. humifructus on the one hand and all other species on the other, (ii) C. sativus (cucumber) and C. hystrix are closer to Dicaelospermum and Mukia than they are to any species of Cucumis, and (iii) C. melo (melon) is sister to a clade comprising Dicaelospermum, Mukia, C. sativus, C. hystrix, and a new species from Australia (HS414).
There are several possible explanations for the contrasting findings of the earlier phylogenetic studies. First, the use of distant outgroups might have "attracted" the long-branched (i.e., mutation-rich) C. sativus, pulling it to the base of the tree. Garcia-Mas et al. [22] and Chung et al. [1] used Citrullus lanatus and/or Cucurbita pepo as sole outgroups. Both taxa are many clades, and millions of years of evolution, removed from the Cucumis clade (Fig. 4) and therefore add long branches to neighbor-joining and parsimony analyses [1,22]. The inclusion of these long branches could have caused long-branch attraction between them and C. sativus.
A second reason why previous molecular phylogenetic studies were unable to test the monophyly of Cucumis and to infer the sister clades of cucumber and melon is that they did not include a sufficiently broad sample of taxa. For example, rigidly testing the monophyly of Cucumis section Melo required sequencing all of its species, C. melo, C. hirsutus, C. humifructus, and C. sagittatus. Results (Figs. 1, 2, 3) show that C. hirsutus and C. humifructus, rather than being close to C. melo, are sister to all other species of Cucumis sensu lato, that is, including all five genera nested in Cucumis.
Another possible reason for apparent differences between earlier topologies and the phylogeny found here is insufficient signal in the data and misidentified material. Comparison of the ITS sequences of Garcia-Mas et al. [22] to our ITS sequences showed that the sequence labeled Cucumis membranifolius in GenBank (AJ488223) and Oreosyce africana in the published paper (these names refer to the same species fide [12]), does not represent Oreosyce africana. The sequence came from a seed provided by the North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station in Ames, Iowa, and since there is no voucher, its identification cannot be verified. We also could not reproduce the topology and bootstrap support obtained in the original paper [22], partly probably because the phylogenetic signal in the data is weak, resulting in many equally likely trees. Garcia-Mas et al. [22] included sequences resulting from direct sequencing as well as sequences obtained by pGEM-T Easy Vector cloning and found sequences from multiple accessions generally grouping by species. Our Cucumis ITS sequencing confirmed these authors' assessment that ITS lineage sorting is not a problem in Cucumis. The two C. ficifolius sequences obtained by Garcia-Mas et al. [22] that do not group (Fig. 2) come from different plants and may simply represent different species; however, since the material is unvouchered, the identifications cannot be checked.
Implications for the evolution and biogeography of Cucumis
The phylogeny from the combined nuclear and chloroplast data (Fig. 3) implies that the deepest divergence lies between the common ancestor of C. hirsutus and C. humifructus and the stem lineage of the remainder of the genus. From the geographic ranges of the species of Cucumis sensu lato (i.e., the natural clade identified here) and its sister genus Muellerargia (with one species in tropical Australia and Indonesia, the other in Madagascar), the area where Cucumis may have originated cannot reliably be inferred. Strict and semi-parametric molecular clocks indicated that the deepest divergence in Cucumis may date back to 48–45 my and that the split between the C. melo lineage and its Australian/Asian sister clade is only slightly younger. The divergence of C. sativus from C. hystrix may be about 8 my old and that of their common ancestor from the ancestor of Dicaelospermum and Mukia maderaspatana about 19 my. The bulk of the African species appears to have evolved more recently. The absence of a fossil constraint within Cucumis, however, cautions against over-confidence in the molecular clock estimates.
Based on the tree (Fig. 3), the earliest divergence events in Cucumis likely took place in Africa. However, contrary to the traditional classification [12], which groups C. melo with the African C. hirsutus, C. humifructus, and C. sagittatus, melon is closest to an Australian/Asian clade (marked in grey-green in Fig. 3) that comprises an undescribed Australian species [28], species currently placed in Mukia (M. javanica, M. maderaspatana), Dicaelospermum ritchiei from Western India (recently transferred to Mukia [29]), and Cucumis sativus and C. hystrix from India, China, Burma, and Thailand. In addition to the two species we sequenced, Mukia comprises three others [29], its overall geographic range extending from Indo-China southeast to Java, Borneo, and the Philippines, and west through India, Pakistan, and the Yemen into sub-Saharan Africa. Given the geographic distribution of its extant closest relatives (Fig. 3), C. melo itself could have originated somewhere in Asia and then reached Africa from there, rather than originating in Africa as traditionally assumed [14,15]. Notably, Indian melon landraces exhibit the largest isozyme variation among Asian melons [16] and Australia is a center of complex morphological variation of C. melo [28].
The evolution of morphological traits relevant for Cucumis breeders, for example fruit type, habit, and sexual system, will need to be reinterpreted based on the phylogenetic relationships presented here. Most of the 52 described species in the Cucumis clade are monoecious perennials, and the monoecious sexual system and perennial habit may be the ancestral condition from which an annual habit and dioecy appear to have evolved several times. However, the sexual system and habit of key taxa, such as Dicaelospermum, Muellerargia, and the as yet undescribed species from Australia [28] (Fig. 3) are not reliably known because species are under-collected and have not been studied in the field. Of the 17 species of Cucumis not yet sequenced, most are monoecious perennials; only C. kalahariensis A. Meeuse and C. rigidus Sond. are dioecious and perennial. Species currently placed in Mukia [29] and Cucumella [13] are mostly monoecious and perennial. The evolution of smooth fruits from spiny fruits, a traditional key character in Cucumis, and the mode of fruit opening are much more plastic than formerly thought. For example, in Oreosyce africana and Muellerargia timorensis the fruits open explosively [[30]; I. Telford, Beadle Herbarium, Armidale, personal communication, Feb. 2007); in C. humifructus, fruits mature below ground and are then dug up and the seeds dispersed by antbears, Orycteropus afer [31]; in the new species from Australia (HS414 in Figs. 1 and 2), the developing fruit is pushed into rock crevices by the elongating pedicel and also matures below ground; and in Myrmecosicyos messorius the fruits are tiny and apparently dispersed by harvesting ants around whose nest entrances the species grows.
Based on congruent nuclear and chloroplast phylogenies we conclude that a monophyletic Cucumis comprises an old Australian/Asian clade that includes cucumber and at least eight other species, most of them currently placed in Mukia. The new insights about the closest relatives of melon and cucumber have implications for ongoing genomics efforts. It is known that Cucumis organellar genomes are unusually labile. Thus, in C. sativus, rbcL has been transferred from the plastome to the mitochondrial genome [4], and huge amounts of degenerate repetitive DNA have accumulated in C. sativus mitochondria [5-7]. The seven meiotic chromosomes of C. sativus are larger than the 12 of its wild sister species or progenitor C. hystrix [32] and consist of six metacentrics and one submetacentric chromosome [33]. To infer the genome rearrangements that must have taken place during the evolution and domestication of C. sativus, analyses of co-linearity will be required between the cucumber lineage and its closest relatives Dicaelospermum ritchiei and species of Mukia. Finally, the possibility that C. melo may have evolved in Asia and reached Africa secondarily needs to be tested.
Taxon Sampling and Data Sets Analyzed
Table 1 lists all species sampled with authors, status as generic types where applicable, plant sources, and GenBank accession numbers [TreeBASE: study accession S1604, matrix accession M2887, M3250 and M3251]; 79 chloroplast and 20 ITS sequences were newly generated for this study. Species concepts and generic assignments throughout this study follow recent classifications [11-13,29], although as a result of this study, species in several genera have been transferred into Cucumis ([34]; this also provides a morphological key to the 52 described species). To resolve species relationships within Cucumis, we added sequences from the nuclear internal transcribed spacer region (220 nt of ITS 1, 163 nt of the 5.8S gene, and 240 nt of ITS 2) for the same species for which chloroplast data were generated. DNA extraction, purification, and sequencing of the selected loci followed standard procedures [10]. All PCR products were sequenced in both directions. Direct PCR amplification of ITS yielded single bands and unambiguous base calls, except in C. ficifolia, the sequences of which were therefore not used. Sequences were edited and assembled with the Sequencher software (Gene Codes) and aligned by eye, using MacClade [35]. The aligned chloroplast matrix comprised 4,375 positions after exclusion of a poly-T run in the matK gene, a poly-A run in the trnL intron, a TATATA microsatellite region in the trnL-F intergenic spacer and a poly-A run in the rpl20-rps12 intergenic spacer. The aligned ITS matrix comprised 677 aligned positions, and we excluded a poly-G stretch of 25 nt and a poly-C stretch of 17 nt from the ITS1 and a poly-C stretch of 11 nt from ITS2.
Phylogenetic Analyses
Equally weighted parsimony analyses were conducted using PAUP 4.0b10 [36]. The search strategy involved 100 random taxon addition replicates with tree-bisection-reconnection branch swapping, MulTrees and Steepest Descent in effect, no limit on trees in memory, and saving all optimal trees. For MP analyses, gaps were treated as missing data, while for ML searches (below) they were mostly removed. To assess node support, parsimony bootstrap analyses were performed using 1000 replicate heuristic searches, each with 10 random addition replicates and otherwise the same settings as used for tree searches. More computationally intensive heuristic approaches have been found not to increase the reliability of bootstrapping [37]. Maximum likelihood analyses and bootstrapping were performed using GARLI 0.951 [38]. GARLI searches relied on the GTR + G + P-invar model, which ModelTest 3.06 [39] selected as the best fitting model for the combined data. Parameters were estimated over the duration of specified runs.
Molecular clock dating
Molecular clock dating in Cucurbitaceae is problematic because of the family's scarce fossil record. Without multiple calibrations, such as could come from several securely assigned fossils, relaxed molecular clock methods have been shown to perform poorly [40-42]. We therefore relied on a strict clock approach and compared it with results obtained with the semi-parametric penalized likelihood approach [40] implemented in r8s vs. 1.7). For strict clock dating, we employed the maximum likelihood topology obtained (under GTR + G) with the family data set of Kocyan et al. [10] augmented by the Cucumis sequences generated for this study for a total of 193 taxa and 5,028 aligned nucleotide positions. The tree was imported into PAUP [36], rooted on Corynocarpaceae, and rbcL branch lengths were then calculated under a GTR + G + I + strict clock model. Branch lengths were saved and a mutation rate obtained by dividing the distance from the most recent common ancestor (mrca) of Trichosanthes to the present (0.01416) by 65 my, based on the oldest seeds assigned to this genus [43]. Using the resulting rate of 0.000218 substitutions/site/my, we obtained an age of 47.6 my for the mrca of Cucumis by dividing the distance from the basal divergence in Cucumis to the present (0.01037) by 0.000218. The time of the divergence of C. melo from its sister clade was calculated accordingly (0.00975 : 0.000218 = 44.7 my). To check this strict clock estimate based on rbcL, we imported the 193-taxon-ML tree with branch lengths from the combined chloroplast data (5,028 nt) into r8s and ran a cross validation analysis, using the following upper and lower temporal constraints. The mrca of the family Cucurbitaceae was constrained to maximally 100 my and minimally 65 my old based on Cucurbitales family relationships and fossil records [9,43]; the mrca of Trichosanthes was constrained to minimally 65 my [42]; and the mrca of an endemic clade of two species occurring on Hispaniola was constrained to maximally 30 my old based on the oldest ages of Dominican amber [44]. Penalized likelihood yielded an age of 44.9 my for the mrca of Cucumis.
ML, maximum likelihood; MP, maximum parsimony; mrca, most recent common ancestor; my, million years; nt, nucleotide.
Authors' contributions
SR, HS, and AK obtained the material, AK organized the sequencing and alignments for non-Cucumis Cucurbitaceae, HS did the sequencing and alignments for this study, and SR designed the project, performed molecular clock analyses, and wrote the manuscript. All authors ran tree searches, and all read and approved the final submission.
We thank D. Decker-Walters, M. Wilkins, W. de Wilde, and I. Telford for silica-dried leaves and G. Hausner for comments on the manuscript. The German National Science Foundation (RE 603/3-1) supported fieldwork for this project.
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My husband and I tend to have conversations like, well, when this is over we can finally relax a little. For example, for months we looked forward to our little girl's first birthday. We threw her double parties, one in St. Louis and one in Detroit. Through the entire planning process, we kept saying, yeah, when her birthday is over, we'll relax for a couple of weekends. But, it just seems like those weekends never really do come. This weekend is supposed to be our first weekend of "relaxing." I guess when we were thinking about relaxing, it may have slipped our mind a bit that my law school started back up this week or that I had to bake four flavors of cupcakes for two birthday parties. But then again, if we didn't have eight things going on at once, I may have to consider renaming myself restedandrelaxedcupcakegirl. And let's face it, that's just not a very good blog name.
As I mentioned, my law school started up this week. If I said I took last semester off because I was getting burned out, that would be a slight understatement. I took last semester off in a flurry of hormonal tears screaming that I hated my professors, my school, and the arrogant classmates. I found out that I was pregnant that night. So I may have been a little harsh… But I did do some serious re-evaluating of my career choices. I took a few months off to think about if I really wanted to be an attorney, what my dream job would be, and what exactly I wanted for my life. Let's just call it an "I'm on the verge of my last year in my 20's and will probably set the record for number of years in law school" breakdown. However, two really good things happened to me during these months. First, I got promoted, giving me total validation that I am good at what I do and should continue to pursue a career in the law. Second, I started this blog. I now have a creative outlet for all of my ideas giving me a sense of balance in my life. So, with confidence in my job and an outlet for my cupcaking, I re-enlisted in law school. It will still be another three years before I'm near graduation. However, I'll have law degree to show for it. And, with my legal nerd status in full swing, you can expect to see a little more of that in future blogs. Now… on to the cupcakes!
I was asked to bake chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate for a five year old's birthday party for one of my co-workers children. I opted for a ho-ho cupcake and a chocolate covered strawberry cupcake. For the ho-ho cupcake, I started with my basic chocolate recipe. I stuffed it full of ho-ho cream, double-dipped it into silky ganache and put a signature white ho-ho swirl on top. For the chocolate covered strawberry, I again started with my basic chocolate. I baked a strawberry swirl into the cupcake, as well as filled it will strawberry jam. I topped with chocolate cream cheese buttercream and a fresh strawberry (***TIP*** mix some lemon juice and sugar and brush it on top of the strawberry slice to keep it glistening and prevent browning, but don't forget to blot it on paper towel, otherwise you'll get too much juice on top of the cupcake).
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Ho Ho Filling: There are lots of recipes out there simulating ho ho filling. The basic step is that you start with two tablespoons of flour and a cup of milk to create a roux. You really need to whisk the crap out of this otherwise you'll get lumps. Heat until warm and add 1/3 cup of sugar. Bring to boil until thickened, only a couple of minutes. Cool completely. In another bowl, beat 1/3 cup shortening, 2/3 cups of real butter, 1 tsp of vanilla and a pinch of salt. Beat until completely smooth and add the flour mixture. Beat the crap out of it to make sure you don't have any lumps. Fill cupcakes!
Ganache: This is the simplest most delicious frosting to make ever. In a double boiler, melt one bag of chocolate chips, 3 tbsp butter, ¾ cup of heavy cream, and a tsp of vanilla. Melt until smooth. Let cool until slightly thickened and dip the cupcakes in it. After the first dip, I stuck the cupcakes in the freezer to set and then dipped them again.
Chocolate Strawberry Cupcakes
Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting (for the strawberry cupcakes): Beat until smooth one brick of cream cheese, one stick of butter, and a tsp of vanilla. Add two cups of powdered sugar and a half cup of cocoa. Beat until smooth. Add 2 tbsp of cream or milk and beat again.
I was also asked to bake anything NOT chocolate for two of my cousin's joint 30th birthday party. I opted for a fresh roasted banana cupcake, topped with cream cheese frosting, caramel swirls, and a banana chip and a traditional mini cheesecake (I'm hesitant to call this one an actual cupcake), that was topped with blueberries and strawberries.
Roasted Banana Cupcake
I found a recipe on recipezaar.com a long time ago and have used it ever since. It's delicious! However, this time, I took cues from Martha Stewart's roasted banana cupcakes and roasted the banana. I'm not quite sure I could taste a difference, but the cupcakes were moist and yummy regardless.
4 roasted bananas (put in over at 325 for 15 minutes, peel will darken), then peel and mash, squeeze half a lemon over top and mix
3 c. flour
1 ½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
¾ c. butter
2 1/8 c. sugar
3 large eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 ½ c. buttermilk
Mix flour, baking soda and salt and set aside. Beat the snot of out of the butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, then add vanilla. Slowly add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture. Gradually add the buttermilk, continue to mix until well incorporated. Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes.
Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat one brick of cream cheese and one stick of butter until smooth. Beat in 1 tsp. of vanilla. Add 2-3 cups of powdered sugar one cup at a time until you get a consistency you like. I like mine a little thicker so that it stands up on the cupcakes.
I'm dying to try to make my own caramel, but I just didn't have time for these cuppies. So I used regular sundae caramel in a squirt bottle and swirled it on the cupcakes. Top with a banana chip and enjoy!
Mini Cheesecakes
This recipe is borrowed from Tyler Florence's Ultimate Cheesekcake. You can find the recipe here: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/the-ultimate-cheesecake-recipe/index.html. I just divided everything up into the cupcake pans. I do advise baking the cheesecakes in a water bath. Otherwise, the mini cheesecakes fall a little. To bake in a water bath, just put the cupcake pan in a large roaster and fill until water goes about halfway up the cupcake pan. Bake at 350 for about 23-25 minutes until the cheesecakes are set. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours. I even used the blueberry topping in this recipe and it was delicious! For strawberry topping, heat one cup of sliced fresh strawberries, the zest of one lemon, 2 tbsp of water and 3 tbsp of sugar. Heat until the strawberries begin to break down. In a separate dish, mix together 1 ½ tsp of cornstarch and 1 tbsp of water. Add to the strawberry mixture and heat until mixture thickens. Cool before adding to cupcakes.


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