S Chikungunya virus causes fever in humans and produces severe joint pain. So far no drug has been specifically developed to treat chikungunya virus. Some medicinal practioners prescribe a herbal drug prepared from Eupatorium prostratum. Eupatorin 200 is the main phytochemical in this plant. Using this ligands we carried out docking with target structural polyprotein. The results showed that eu...

I study a market in which a profit-maximizing intermediary facilitates trade between buyers and sellers. The intermediary sets prices for buyers and sellers, and keeps the difference as her fee. Optimal prices increase when demand increases, i.e., shifts right. If a demand increase is due to an increase in the number of ex ante similar buyers, then the intermediary’s optimal percent fee decreas...

1. Call to Order President Joe Felsenstein called the council meeting to order at 9:20 AM, July 7, 2015. In attendance were President Joe Felsenstein, Past-president Brandon Gaut, President-Elect George Zhang, Secretary James McInerney, Treasurer Juliette de Meaux, Councilors Sandra Baldauf, David Liberles, Marta Wayne, Harmit Malik, Emma Teeling, Kateryna Marakova, Molecular Biology and Evolut...

Galium catalinense subspecies acrispum (Rubiaceae) is a state-endangered perennial shrub endemic to San Clemente Island. Eight polymorphic microsatellite loci were isolated from G. catalinense ssp. acrispum. These loci show high levels of variability, averaging 6.5 alleles per locus and an expected heterozygosity of 0.550. One locus exhibited significant deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibri...