Hsing-Jien Kung,1,2,3,4,*,y Chun A Changou,2,3,y Chien-Feng Li, and David K Ann Department of Biochemistry &Molecular Medicine; UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center; Sacramento, CA USA; Integrated Laboratory; Center of Translational Medicine; Taipei Medical University; Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China; Graduate Institute of Translational Medicine; Taipei Medical University; Taipei, Taiwan, Rep...

Correction In the original publication [1] are errors in the acknowledgement section in the backmatter. The corrections can be found below in this Erratum. Incorrect affiliation 4: Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control, No. 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, China, 510095. Correct affiliation 4: Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and Sexuall...

A bark cricket genus Duolandrevus Kirby, 1906 is discussed here. These species are brownish with depressed bodies, with reduced elytra, lack hind wings and live in the bark of dead trees or branches. Duolandrevus are distributed from the south of China and Japan to the Philippines, the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea. Only one species, Duolandrevus hongkongae Otte, 1988, was recorded in China....

This paper investigates the efficiency of application of medical ethics principles in the practice of artificial insemination by donors (AID) in China, in a culture characterised by traditional ethical values and disapproval of AID. The paper presents the ethical approach to AID treatment as established by the Reproduction and Genetics Hospital of CITIC-Xiangya (CITIC Hunan-Yale Approach) in th...

Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) is an intestinal infectious disease caused by porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV); manifestations of the disease are diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration. Starting from the end of 2010, a PED outbreak occurred in several pig-producing provinces in southern China. Subsequently, the disease spread throughout the country and caused enormous economic losses to the p...

We report the complete genomic sequence of a novel Newcastle disease virus (NDV) strain, duck/China/Guangxi19/2011, isolated from a white duck in Guangxi Province, southern China. Phylogenetic analysis based on a fusion gene comparison with different NDV strains revealed that duck/China/Guangxi19/2011 is phylogenetically close to genotype IX NDV, and the deduced amino acid sequence of the fusio...

Ozone production and hydrocarbon reactivity in Hong Kong, Southern China J. Zhang, T. Wang, W. L. Chameides, C. Cardelino, J. Kwok, D. R. Blake, A. Ding, and K. L. So School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Poly...

Scab, caused by Cladosporium cucumerinum Ell. et Arthur, is a prevalent disease of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) worldwide. Scab can cause serious losses for cucumber production, especially in protected culture such as high tunnel production. Resistance to cucumber scab is dominant and is controlled by a single gene, Ccu. Breeding for resistant cultivars is the most efficient way to control the...

This paper investigates the efficiency of application of medical ethics principles in the practice of artificial insemination by donors (AID) in China, in a culture characterised by traditional ethical values and disapproval of AID. The paper presents the ethical approach to AID treatment as established by the Reproduction and Genetics Hospital of CITIC-Xiangya (CITIC Hunan-Yale Approach) in th...

Despite the fact that the continuity of morphology of fossil specimens of modern humans found in China has repeatedly challenged the Out-of-Africa hypothesis, Chinese populations are underrepresented in genetic studies. Genetic profiles of 28 populations sampled in China supported the distinction between southern and northern populations, while the latter are biphyletic. Linguistic boundaries a...