Two species of Aedes (Stegomyia) were collected in response to the first chikungunya virus (CHIKV) outbreak on Yap Island: the native species Ae. hensilli Farner and the introduced species Ae. aegypti (L.). Fourteen CHIKV-positive mosquito pools were detected. Six pools were composed of female Ae. hensilli, six pools were composed of female Ae. aegypti, one pool was composed of male Ae. hensill...

Vet Med Today: Zoonosis Update 1705 T spongiform encephalopathies affect humans and other animals. Clinically, the diseases involve severe, progressive neurodegeneration with an invariably fatal outcome. The TSEs are linked by the unusual nature of their causative agent, which is believed to be a transmissible protein devoid of nucleic acid. This protein, known as a prion (a pseudoabbreviation ...

Tandem repeats (TR) are the most abundant ones in the extragenic region of genomes. Biologists have already found a large number of regulatory elements in this region. These elements may profoundly impact the chromatin structure formation in nucleus and also contain important clues in genetic evolution and phylogenic study. This study attempts to mine rules on how combinations of individual bin...

The myb gene family encodes proteins characterized by a highly conserved DNA-binding domain and functions as transcription regulators. There are three myb genes in animals with three Myb-motif repeats, namely c-myb, A-myb, and B-myb. By contrast, plants possess an abundance of myb genes, the majority of which are of the type R2R3 (with two Myb-motifs). Few plant myb genes are of the type R1R2R3...

The fiddler crab Uca formosensis Rathbun, 1921 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae), restricted to the western part of Taiwan and the offshore Penghu (Pescadores) Islands in the Taiwan Strait, has been placed under the subgenus Uca (Gelasimus) Latreille, 1817 (= Uca (Thalassuca) Crane, 1975) based on only less than a dozen specimens, but later suggested under the subgenus Tubuca Bott, 1973 because...

Morphological identification of the majority Zygaenidae species in Eastern Mediterranean Region Turkey was undertaken and a phylogenetic tree these generated. Sampling performed between May September 2017 2018 Adana, Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, Mersin Osmaniye Provinces. This area is zoogeographical junction central Anatolia Levant. The were collected by sweep net visual control methods. Thirteen ide...

Protein sequence analysis is an important tool for researchers to study on bio-informatics and molecular biology, such as proteins structure and function prediction, phylogenetic classification and different conservation pattern recognition. It is a significant open issue to quickly efficiently find the similar proteins from a large scale of protein repository. This paper proposes a new method ...

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is responsible for large waterborne epidemics of acute hepatitis in endemic regions and for sporadic autochthonous cases in non endemic regions. Although the water vector has been thoroughly documented in endemic regions, very little is known about the modes of contamination occurring in non endemic regions. Unlike the other hepatitis viruses, HEV has an animal reservoir...

Detection of tandem repeats can be used for phylogenic studies and disease diagnosis. The numerical representation of genomic signals is very important, as many of the methods for detecting repeated sequences are part of the DSP field. These methods involve the application of a kind of transformation. Applying a transform technique requires mapping the symbolic domain into the numeric domain in...

H2N2 influenza A virus was the cause of the 1957 pandemic. Due to its constant presence in birds, the H2 subtype remains a topic of interest. In this work, comparison of H2 leader sequences of influenza A segment 4 revealed the presence of an upstream in-frame start codon in a majority of North American avian strains. This AUG is located seven codons upstream of the conventional start codon and...