The genus Aphanomyces (Saprolegniales, Oomycetes) includes species with a variety of ecologies from saprotrophs to plant and animal parasites. Two important species in this genus are A. astaci, the cause of crayfish plague and its close relative, A. invadans, which causes the epizootic ulcerative syndrome on fish. In this study, we have assembled and annotated the mitochondrial (mt) genomes of ...

We investigate the multi-wavelength properties of a sample of 450-μm selected sources from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS). A total of 69 sources were identified above 4σ in deep SCUBA-2 450-μm observations overlapping the UDS and COSMOS fields and covering 210 arcmin to a typical depth of σ450 = 1.5mJy. Reliable cross identification are found for 58 sources (84 per cent) in Spitzer...

The protein is 219 amino acids, with a predicted MW of 23,8 kDa. The carboxy-terminal transmembrane domain of BNIP3L has been characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance and shown to form a kinked αhelix (Bocharov et al., 2007). Structural bioinformatics analysis indicates that the rest of the protein is mostly disordered. The LIR and the MER are predicted to form secondary structure (β-strand ...

With a goal toward deriving the physical conditions in external galaxies, we present a survey of the formaldehyde emission in a sample of starburst systems. By extending a technique used to derive the spatial density in star formation regions in our own Galaxy, we show how the relative intensity of the 110 − 111 and 211 − 212 K-doublet transitions of H2CO can provide an accurate densitometer fo...

Fathers play a substantial role in infant care in a small but significant number of mammalian species, including humans. However, the neural circuitry controlling paternal behavior is much less understood than its female counterpart. In order to characterize brain areas activated by paternal care, male California mice were separated from their female mate and litter for 3 h and then exposed to ...

A 4-year retrospective study was performed to determine the clinical, bacteriological and epidemiological aspects of acute clinical mastitis in seven Israeli dairy herds. A total of 1124 clinical mastitis cases were detected by abnormal changes in the milk and udder with concurrent decrease of at least 25% in daily milk production. A total of 1190 quarters were affected with clinical mastitis i...

Autophagy is an intracellular trafficking pathway sequestering cytoplasm and delivering excess and damaged cargo to the vacuole for degradation. The Atg1/ULK1 kinase is an essential component of the core autophagy machinery possibly activated by binding to Atg13 upon starvation. Indeed, we found that Atg13 directly binds Atg1, and specific Atg13 mutations abolishing this interaction interfere w...

Arp 302, a luminous infrared source (LIR = 4.2× 10 11 L⊙), consisting of two spiral galaxies (VV340A and VV340B) with nuclear separation of ∼ 40, has the highest CO luminosity known. Observations with the BIMA array at 5 ×7 resolution reveal that the CO emission is extended over 23.0 kpc in the edge-on spiral galaxy, VV340A, corresponding to 6.7× 10 M⊙ of H2. In the companion face-on galaxy, VV...

We use the science demonstration field data of the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey to study how star formation, traced by the far-infrared Herschel data, is related to both the accretion luminosity and redshift of quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS luminous red galaxy (LRG) and Quasar Spectroscopic Catalogue survey. By developing a maxi...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic and laparoscopic local resection of gastric tumors has increasingly been performed in recent years. This article describes the technical considerations and early results of laparoscopic-endoscopic rendezvous resection of gastric lesions. PATIENTS AND METHODS Rendezvous resection was performed in 26 patients with submucosal gastric tumors (n = 22) and early gastric cancer...