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Abstrak :
Mimicry is a classic example of adaptation through natural selection. The traditional focus of mimicry research has been on defense in animals (protective mimicry), but there is now also a highly developed and rapidly growing body of research on floral mimicry in plants. Being literally rooted to one spot, plants generally have to use food bribes to cajole animals into acting as couriers for their pollen. Plants that lack these food rewards often deploy elaborate color and scent signals in order to mimic food sources, oviposition sites, or mating partners of particular animals, and thereby exploit these animals for the purposes of pollination. This book addresses the question of whether the evolutionary and ecological principles that were developed for protective mimicry in animals also apply to floral mimicry in plants. Visual, olfactory, and tactile signals can all be important in floral mimicry systems. The traditional focus has been on visual cues, but there is increasing evidence that some forms of mimicry, notably sexual and oviposition-site mimicry, are largely based on chemical cues. The molecular basis for these signals, their role in cognitive misclassification of flowers by pollinators, and the implications of these signals for plant speciation are among the topics covered in the book. The chapters of this book are designed to highlight particular systems of floral mimicry and to integrate them into the broader theory of mimicry.

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Tesis ini mengkaji novel The Inheritance of Loss karya Kiran Desai melalui kerangka pascakolonial. Kerangka pascakolonial digunakan untuk memperlihatkan dinamika dua identitas dan dua budaya, Barat dan Timur, yang saling mempengaruhi dalam konteks masyarakat India pasca kemerdekaan dalam novel. Analisis tesis ini akan membahas krisis identitas Barat-Timur yang ditampilkan Desai melalui dua tokoh dalam novel tersebut, Jemubhai dan Biju. Kedua tokoh mewakili dua generasi masyarakat India berdasarkan rentang waktu (tokoh Jemubhai mewakili masa lalu, India setelah memperoleh kemerdekaan dari Inggris dan tokoh Biju mewakili masa kini, India modern) serta letak geografis (India-Inggris serta India-Amerika) dikaitkan dengan kolonialisme Barat. Analisis selanjutnya akan menjelaskan bahwa proses tersebut dilakukan dengan peniruan wacana kolonial (mimikri) serta internalisasi identitas Barat oleh Timur melalui stereotipe. Tokoh Jemubhai memperlihatkan internalisasi terhadap wacana kolonial. Sebaliknya, tokoh Biju cenderung menolak wacana tersebut. Namun hasil akhir dari krisis identitas kedua tokoh ialah penerimaan keduanya terhadap identitas India yang sebelumnya selalu dimarginalkan oleh Barat dan diinternalisasi Timur. ......This thesis analyses Kiran Desai?s novel The Inheritance of Loss through postcolonial framework. The framework will show the dynamic of two different identities and cultures, the Occident and the Orient, interfering with each other connected to Indian after-independence society in the novel. The analysis will unfold the process of the Occident/Orient identity crises being passed through two characters in the novel, Jemubhai and Biju. These characters will represent two Indian generations based on time span (Jemubhai representing the past, India right after getting its freedom from the British and Biju representing today, modern India) and geographical migrations (India-England and India-USA) intermingling with colonialism of the West. It will explain that the process is done through colonial mimesis (mimicry) and the Occidental identity internalization by the Orient through stereotyping. Jemubhai tends to internalize the colonial discourse, while Biju questions and eventually refuses it. However, the final act of the process is the retrieving of essential identities which had been marginalized by the Occident and internalized by the Orient itself.

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This book provides both the basic biology and biochemistry knowledge of selenoproteins, and sophisticated approaches for the development of new selenoprotein mimics.