Regulated degradation plays a major role in determining the levels of both non-coding (miRNA) and coding (mRNA) transcripts. Thus, insights into the factors and pathways that influence this process have broad, interdisciplinary implications. New findings by Malecki et al (2013), Lubas et al (2013), and Chang et al (2013) identify the protein Dis3L2 as a major player in the 3′–5′ exonucleolytic ...

Globally, forests store ∼45% of carbon sequestered terrestrially, contribute more to the terrestrial sink per area than any other land cover type, and assimilate an important portion of anthropogenic emissions (Bonan, 2008). Forests exert strong biophysical control on climate via surface energy balance (Bonan, 2008; Rotenberg and Yakir, 2010; Houspanossian et al., 2013), and the hydrological cy...

Recently, many new chaotic flows have been discovered that are not associated with a saddle point, including ones without any equilibrium points, with only stable equilibria, or with a line containing infinitely many equilibrium points [Jafari & Sprott, 2013, 2015; Jafari et al., 2013; Jafari et al., 2015b; Kingni et al., 2014; Lao et al., 2014; Molaie et al., 2013; Pham et al., 2014a; Pham et ...

The broad themes of work and consumption have received substantial attention in ephemera (e.g. Beverungen et al., 2013; Bradshaw et al., 2013; Chertkovskaya et al., 2013). Following concomitant debates, this special issue aims to bring together these two realms. While work, understood as the process of production, and consumption, understood as the consummation of objects of production, have al...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a major role in the spread of antibiotic resistance. Of particular concern are Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria, which recently emerged as global pathogens, with nosocomial mortality rates reaching 19-54% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013; Joly Guillou, 2005; Talbot et al., 2006). Acinetobacter gains antibiotic resistance remarkably rapidly (...

Therapy-induced hypoxia drives changes in the tumor microenvironment that contribute to the poor response to therapy. Hypoxia is capable of driving the expression and/or activation of specific signaling cascades (e.g., c-Met, Axl, CTGF), the recruitment of tumor promoting immune cells, and the induction of cell survival pathways including autophagy (Phan et al., 2013; Hu et al., 2012; Ye et al....

In India, donkey milk (DM) is gaining lot of attention for human (children) consumption in view of its medicinal and therapeutic values with special reference to its antimicrobial property. Since ages, donkey milk has been known for its significant medicinal and therapeutic properties (Zhang et al., 2008, Vincenzetti et al., 2008). Some of these properties of DM are in prevention of atheroscler...

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Three new species of the spider genus Philoponella Mello-Leitão, 1917 are described: Philoponella opelli n. sp. from Brazil and Ecuador, and Philoponella fluviidulcifis n. sp. , and Philoponella duopunctata n. sp. from Brazil. New records for Philoponella vittata (Keyserling, 1881), P. republicana (Simon, 1891), P. fasciata (Mello-Leitão, 1917) and P. divisa Opell, 1979 are provided for Brazil ...

J. J. Flint, B. Hansen, S. Portnoy, C. H. Lee, M. A. King, M. Fey, F. Vincent, P. Vestergaard-Poulsen, and S. J. Blackband Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, United States, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, United States, Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, Electrical Engineering, University ...