Germ cells share core attributes and homologous molecular components across animal phyla. Nevertheless, abrupt shifts in reproductive mode often occur that are mediated by the rapid evolution of germ cell properties. Studies of Caenorhabditis nematodes show how the otherwise conserved RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) that regulate germline development and differentiation can undergo surprisingly rap...

Herein we report a study combining metabolomics and mass isotopomer analysis used for investigation of the biochemical fate of γ-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB). Using various (13)C incorporation labeling patterns into GHB, we have discovered that GHB is catabolized by previously unknown processes that include (i) direct β-oxidation to acetyl-CoA and glycolate, (ii) α-oxidation to 3-hydroxypropionyl-...

HIP1 (huntingtin interacting protein 1) has two close relatives: HIP1R (HIP1-related) and yeast Sla2p. All three members of the family have a conserved domain structure, suggesting a common function. Over the past decade, a number of studies have characterized these proteins using a combination of biochemical, imaging, structural and genetic techniques. These studies provide valuable informatio...

mycoplasma ovipneumoniae is an important respiratory pathogen of sheep across the world. in the present study nasal swab samples (n=778) were processed and 51isolates of m. ovipneumoniae were identified through biochemical tests and pcr. difference in the isolation rate among districts (n=12), age groups (n=3), breads (n=6) was assessed. similarly the isolate rate among healthy (n=513) and resp...

The low level of carbonic anhydrase activity in groundnut grown on soil with limited zinc (Zn) content is one the factors responsible for yield groundnuts Nigeria. Hence, this study was carried out to further strengthen significance Zn enhancing photosynthetic processes through activity. It also determines how application affects biochemical components, growth, and composition Arachis hypogaea ...

Drought stress provokes plants to change their growth pattern and biochemical contents overcome adverse situations. Soybean was grown under 40 (drought) 80% (control) of field capacity (FC) determine the morpho-physiological alterations that occur drought conditions. The experiment conducted following a randomized complete block design with three replications. results showed exerted detrimental...

Biochemical reaction systems may be viewed as discrete event processes characterized by a number of states and state transitions. These systems may be modeled as state transition systems with transitions representing individual reaction events. Since they often involve a large number of interactions, it can be difficult to construct such a model for a system, and since the resulting state-level...

The correlation between the performance of attributes and the overallsatisfaction such as they are perceived by the customers is often used tocalculate the importance of attributes in the crisp case. Recently, the methodwas extended, based on the standard Zadeh extension principle, to the fuzzycase, taking into account the specificity of the human thinking. Thedifficulties of calculation are im...