Background. Mutation testing is a commonly used defect injection technique for evaluating the effectiveness of test suite. However, it usually computationally expensive. Therefore, many mutation reduction strategies, which aim to reduce number mutants, have been proposed. Problem. It important measure ability strategy maintain suite evaluation. existing evaluation indicators are unable “order-p...

We previously reported that disruption of the yjbI gene reduced virulence Staphylococcus aureus. In this study, we found in both silkworms and mice was restored by introducing yjbH but not to genes-disrupted mutants, suggesting yjbH, downstream a two-gene operon-yjbIH, is responsible for phenomenon. further observed decrease various surface-associated proteins changes cell envelope glycostructu...

Neuronal cell fate determinants establish the identities of neurons by controlling gene expression to regulate neuronal morphology and synaptic connectivity. However, it is not understood if have postmitotic functions in synapse pattern formation. Here we identify a novel role for UNC-4 homeobox protein its corepressor UNC-37/Groucho, tiled patterning cholinergic motor Caenorhabditis elegans . ...

The snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) centroradialis mutant (cen) is characterized by the development of a terminal flower, thereby replacing the normally open inflorescence by a closed inflorescence. In contrast to its Arabidopsis counterpart, terminal flower1, the cen-null mutant displays an almost constant number of lateral flowers below the terminal flower. Some partial revertants of an X-radi...

The biotrophic basidiomycete fungus Ustilago maydis causes smut disease in maize. Hallmarks of the are characteristic large tumors which dark pigmented spores formed. Here, we functionally characterized a novel core effector lep1 (late protein 1) is highly expressed during tumor formation and contributes to virulence. We characterize mutants, localize protein, determine phenotypic consequences ...

As quantum computing is still in its infancy, there an inherent lack of knowledge and technology to test a program properly. In the classical realm, mutation testing has been successfully used evaluate how well program's suite detects seeded faults (i.e., mutants). this paper, building on definition syntactically equivalent operations, we propose novel set operators generate mutants base...