Monitoring the emergence and re-emergence of viral diseases with the goal of containing
the spread of viral agents requires both adequate preparedness and quick response …

The specific structural features of stem-loop (hairpin) DNA constructs provide increased
specificity of target recognition. Recently, several robust assays have been developed that …

Hypoxia is important in both biomedical and environmental contexts and necessitates rapid
adaptive changes in metabolic organization. Mammals, as air breathers, have a limited …

Leaf senescence is a form of programmed cell death, and is believed to involve preferential
expression of a specific set of 'senescence‐associated genes'(SAGs). To decipher the …

Although many properties of the innate immune system are shared among multicellular
animals, the evolutionary origin remains poorly understood. Here we characterize the innate …

Background Plants growing in their natural habitat represent a valuable resource for
elucidating mechanisms of acclimation to environmental constraints. Populus euphratica is a …

Blood cell production originates from a rare population of multipotent, self-renewing stem
cells. A genome-wide gene expression analysis was performed in order to define regulatory …

In order to find the immune-relevant factors responsible for the virus resistance in the WSSV-
resistant shrimp, a suppression subtractive hybridization method was employed to identify …

The aquaculture of molluscs and crustaceans is an economical activity that is threatened by
the repeated appearance of new diseases, non-infectious and infectious, which affect …

Lolitrems are a structurally diverse group of indole-diterpene mycotoxins synthesized by
Epichloë/Neotyphodium endophytes in association with Pooid grasses. Using suppression …