The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene has been universally and successfully utilized as a barcoding gene, mainly because it can be amplified easily, applied across a wide range of taxa, and results can be obtained cheaply and quickly. However, in rare cases, the gene can fail to distinguish between species, particularly when exposed to highly sensitive methods of data an...

We have previously described a PKC-epsilon interaction with cytochrome oxidase subunit IV (COIV) that correlates with enhanced CO activity and cardiac ischemic preconditioning (PC). We therefore investigated the effects of PC and ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury on CO subunit levels in an anesthetized rat coronary ligation model. Homogenates prepared from the left ventricular regions at risk (...

The sequence of the wheat mltochondrial gene for cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) predicts a hydrophoblc protein of 524 amlno acids that shows strong similarity to those of maize (99% nucleotide identity), soybean (94%) and Oenothera (93%). Nine of the 30 nucleotide differences seen between the wheat and maize COI genes (arrowheads) lead to amlno acid substitutions, many of which occur at the...

BACKGROUND Describe the prevalence and types of conflicts of interest (COI) in published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in general medical journals with a binary primary outcome and assess the association between conflicts of interest and favorable outcome. METHODS Parallel-group RCTs with a binary primary outcome published in three general medical journals during 2013-2015 were identifi...

Anastrepha suspensa (Loew) is an economically important pest, restricted to the Greater Antilles and southern Florida. It infests a wide variety of hosts and is of quarantine importance in citrus, a multi-million dollar industry in Florida. The observed recent increase in citrus infested with A. suspensa in Florida has raised questions regarding host-specificity of certain populations and genet...

We have previously described an εPKC interaction with cytochrome oxidase (CO) subunit IV which correlates with enhanced CO activity and cardiac ischemic preconditioning (PC). We therefore, investigated the effects of PC and ischemia/reperfusion (IR) injury on CO subunit levels in an anesthetized rat coronary ligation model. Homogenates prepared from the left ventricular regions at risk (RAR) an...

Evaluating the impact of a scholarly article is of great significance and has attracted great attentions. Although citation-based evaluation approaches have been widely used, these approaches face limitations e.g. in identifying anomalous citations patterns. This negligence would inevitably cause unfairness and inaccuracy to the article impact evaluation. In this study, in order to discover the...

DNA metabarcoding is a promising approach for rapidly surveying biodiversity and is likely to become an important tool for measuring ecosystem responses to environmental change. Metabarcoding markers need sufficient taxonomic coverage to detect groups of interest, sufficient sequence divergence to resolve species, and will ideally indicate relative abundance of taxa present. We characterized zo...