From the Structural and Computational Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi 110067, India, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, BP 181, F-38042 Grenoble Cédex 9, France, the Department of Biotechnology, Hamdard University, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi 110062, India, and the Walter and Eliza Hall Inst...

Aldo Brugnera Junior, DDS, Ph.D.1,2,3, Ana Eliza Garrini, DDS1, Antonio Pinheiro, DDS, Ph.D.2, Dilma Helena Souza Campos, DDS1, Elisângela Donamaria, DDS1, Fábio Magalhães, DDS1, Fatima Zanin, DDS1, Jesus Djalma Pécora, DDS3, Márcia Takamoto, DDS1 and Thereza Christinna Ladalardo, DDS1 1School of Dentistry, Universidade Camilo Castelo Branco, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; 2School of Dentistry, Univers...

Gene Expression Profiles in Formalin-Fixed, ParaffinEmbedded Tissues Obtained with a Novel Assay for Microarray Analysis, Marina Bibikova, Joanne M. Yeakley, Eugene Chudin, Jing Chen, Eliza Wickham, Jessica WangRodriguez, and Jian-Bing Fan ( Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA; 2 Veterans Affairs Hospital, University of CaliforniaSan Diego, San Diego, CA 92161; * address correspondence to this author...

Honey bee queen quality is a critical factor of colony performance. Indications such qualities can manifest themselves through morphological traits as wet weight and thorax width. Improving characteristics driven in part by nutritional provision queen-cell-builder hives. We investigated the potential to improve adding coenzyme Q10 (endogenous antioxidant) caffeine (central nervous system stimul...

Algorithms: Backtracking This algorithm searches through all possible placements of queens until it finds a valid one. It starts by placing one queen in the first column and first row, then tries to place the other queens so that they do not conflict. Once there is no possible place to put a queen, it pulls the current queen off the board and tries the previous queen in its next row. The order ...

Queen health is closely linked to colony performance in honey bees as a single queen is normally responsible for all egg laying and brood production within the colony. In the U. S. in recent years, queens have been failing at a high rate; with 50% or greater of queens replaced in colonies within 6 months when historically a queen might live one to two years. This high rate of queen failure coin...

Pristomyrmex tsujii sp. n., an endemic species of the Fiji islands, is described from the worker, ergatoid queen, alate queen and male castes. The alate queen and male castes of Pristomyrmex mandibularis Mann are also described for the first time. The ergatoid queens for both species appear to be morphologically intermediate between the worker and alate queen castes. Pristomyrmex tsujii is read...

Recent advances in quantitative single-cell analysis revealed large diversity in gene expression levels between individual cells, which could affect the physiology and/or fate of each cell. In contrast, for most metabolites, the concentrations were only measureable as ensemble averages of many cells. In living cells, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a critically important metabolite that powers ...

While adaptive adjustment of sex ratio in the function of colony kin structure and food availability commonly occurs in social Hymenoptera, long-term studies have revealed substantial unexplained between-year variation in sex ratio at the population level. In order to identify factors that contribute to increased between-year variation in population sex ratio, we conducted a comparative analysi...