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Drone congregation areas of red dwarf honeybee, Apis florea
The drones of dwarf honeybees assemble at the drone congregation areas close to small trees with dense leafage at the heights between 2 to 4 meters.
Received 06 November 2009 14:12 UTC; Posted 06 November 2009
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology
High energy-charged cell factory for heterologous protein synthesis
Overexpression of gluconeogenic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PCK) under glycolytic conditions enables Escherichia coli to maintain a greater intracellular ATP concentration and, consequently,...
Received 06 November 2009 01:43 UTC; Posted 06 November 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology
Are endocannabinoid type 1 receptor gene (CNR1) polymorphisms associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome in postmenopausal Polish women?
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether genetic variation at the cannabinoid receptor-1 (CNR1) locus could have an effect on adiposity, fat distribution and obesity-related metabo…
Received 05 November 2009 01:29 UTC; Posted 06 November 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics
9aaTADs mimic DNA to interact with a pseudo-DNA Binding Domain KIX of Med15 (Molecular Chameleons)
The KIX-domain of Gal11/MED15 was shown to interact with short transactivation domain of Pdr1 and Oaf1 (12 and 9 amino acids respectively) annotated to 9aaTAD family. Reported NMR data revealed a s…
Received 03 November 2009 21:11 UTC; Posted 05 November 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics
The NCBO OBOF to OWL Mapping
Two of the most significant formats for biomedical ontologies are the Open Biomedical Ontologies Format (OBOF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). To make it possible to translate ontologies betwe…
Received 03 November 2009 20:16 UTC; Posted 04 November 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Cortical activity modulation of language processing by dynamic optimization of task complexity and functional restrictions
Language, regarded as a hierarchical cognitive code activated by functional operational modes of the brain by most neuropsychologists, is characterized by increased cognitive load in successively h…
Received 04 November 2009 08:56 UTC; Posted 04 November 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Ecophysiological traits of grasses: resolving the effects of photosynthetic pathway and phylogeny
C4 photosynthesis is an important example of convergent evolution in plants, having arisen in eudicots, monocots and diatoms. Comparisons between such diverse groups are confounded by phylogenetic …
Received 03 November 2009 17:22 UTC; Posted 04 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology
MicroDNAs and Transcriptional Regulation
Synthetic "microDNAs (MIDs)"is a new class of ~ 20-25 nucleotide-long DNAs capable of repressing the activity of the target gene at the level of transcription by mechanisms that have not …
Received 04 November 2009 08:33 UTC; Posted 04 November 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology
PSA Dynamics traditionally evaluated with an inadequate formula
The PSA doubling time is usually calculated from measured PSA values with an inadequate formula that tacitly assumes the absence of that process, which it is supposed to reveal. We present a modifi…
Received 01 November 2009 23:59 UTC; Posted 03 November 2009
Posted to: Cancer
No evidence for a recent genetic bottleneck in the endangered Sheko cattle breed (African Bos taurus) revealed by microsatellite analysis
Sheko is African taurine cattle, valued for its milk yield, adaptation to humid tsetse infested environment and trypanotolerance. We used 30 microsatellite markers in analyzing 30 DNA samples. We f…
Received 30 October 2009 14:01 UTC; Posted 03 November 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics
