cytoskeleton, thus stabilizing the muscle as it alternately Martin E. Hemler Dana-Farber Cancer Institute contracts and relaxes. In particular, the a-dystroglycan protein binds to the extracellular matrix protein Boston, Massachusetts 02115 laminin-2, while b-dystroglycan spans the membrane and links directly to dystrophin, and other cytoskeletal proteins in the dystrophin family (Figure 1A). T...

This special issue contains 24 full papers selected from the Computer Animation and Social Agents 2021 Conference (CASA2021). conference was founded by Graphics Society (CGS) in 1988 Geneva is oldest on world. It has been held many countries around world recent years Beijing, China (2018), Paris, France (2019), Bournemouth, UK (2020), this year Ottawa, Canada. The two last conferences have orga...

(i) Some of our proposed pathogenic variants have a minor allele frequency (MAF) of 40.01 in the population. Although useful as an initial guide, the 1%MAF is an arbitrary cut-off designed to rapidly filter-out common polymorphic genetic variants from a large exome data set. However, this must be done with care for several reasons. First, allele frequencies vary from database to database, and t...

To prevent infestation of highbush blueberries by fruitworms, growers employ pheromone-baited traps to monitor adult moths and apply insecticides to fields at risk from infestation by the larvae of these pests. However, there are increasing restrictions on availability of broad-spectrum insecticides and monitoring traps have not been used to predict optimal timing of controls for these species ...

Fruit yield, earliness, and quality have low to moderate heritability, but are traits of major importance in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). The objective of this study was to determine the changes made in those traits using recurrent selection in three slicing cucumber populations (NCMBS, NCES1, and NCBA1). During population improvement, one or two replications of 200 to 335 half-sib families w...

Dib-Hajj, S. D., J. A. Black, T. R. Cummins, A. M. Kenney, at least six sodium channel a-subunits (Black et al. 1996) . J. D. Kocsis, and S. G. Waxman. Rescue of a-SNS sodium Unmyelinated C-type and myelinated cutaneous afferent channel expression in small dorsal root ganglion neurons after DRG neurons produce relatively high levels of TTX-R axotomy by nerve growth factor in vivo. J. Neurophysi...

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Recently, a new chapter was started in the handbook of terror involving the application of nerve gas technology to the killing of civilians. On March 19, a terrorist attack in a Tokyo subway resulted in the loss of 10 lives and injury to over 5,000 others. In view of the lethality of the suspected agent, sarin, the fatalities were surprisingly few. Terrorist attacks on civilians are not new, bu...

Sterol-inhibiting (SI) fungicides are widely used to manage apple scab, caused by Venturia inaequalis. However, recent observations indicate that populations of V. inaequalis in orchards in Virginia have developed resistance to myclobutanil and other SI fungicides. Little is known about the frequency and distribution of fungicide resistance in apple scab populations in Virginia. Isolates of V. ...

Potted grapevines (Vitis vinifera L. ‘Chardonnay’) were inoculated with conidial suspensions of the grapevine pathogen causing powdery mildew of grape (GPM) (Uncinula necator (Schw.) Burr.). Leaves of inoculated and noninoculated vines were studied for the effects of varying light (PAR) and CO2 concentrations on factors affecting carbon assimilation. GPM reduced carboxylation effi ciency (k), n...