School of Plant Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. 7000, Australia, School of Botany, The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Vic. 3141, Australia, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, GPO Box 4646, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia, School of ...

The structure and energetics of the simplest Vic-disulfoxide CH3S(O)S(O)CH3 and its key isomers are reported. Computational methods include a CASSCF[2,2] treatment with a large basis set on sulfur and oxygen, followed by multireference MP2 refinement, and also the hybrid density functional B3LYP. Calculations at the G3 level were also carried out. In contrast to previous reports, a weak bond do...

Transmission of mycoviruses that attenuate virulence (hypovirulence) of pathogenic fungi is restricted by allorecognition systems operating in their fungal hosts. We report the use of systematic molecular gene disruption and classical genetics for engineering fungal hosts with superior virus transmission capabilities. Four of five diallelic virus-restricting allorecognition [vegetative incompat...

Staging in bipolar disorder: one step closer to precision psychiatry Brisa S. Fernandes, Michael Berk IMPACT Strategic Research Centre and Barwon Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia. Laboratório das Proteı́nas Ligantes do Cálcio no Sistema Nervoso Central, Departamento de Bioquı́mica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. D...

Prior research has argued that use of optional properties in conceptual models results in loss of information about the semantics of the domains represented by the models. Empirical research undertaken to date supports this argument. Nevertheless, no systematic analysis has been done of whether use of optional properties is always problematic. Furthermore, prior empirical research might have de...

Two alleles for viomycin-capreomycin resistance (vic) in Mycobacterium smegmatis affect ribosome structures. One (vicA) affects a component of 50S subunits and the other (vicB) affects a component of 30S subunits. The locus for neomycin-kanamycin resistance (nek), which is linked to vicA and vicB, affects a component of 30S subunits. Although the erythromycin resistance locus (ery) is linked to...

To elucidate the physiological roles of endothelin-1 (ET-1) and endothelin-2 (ET-2)/vasoactive intestinal contractor (VIC) in gastric injury of mice, we measured the gene expression rates of ET-1 and ET-2/VIC in gastric injury induced by ethanol in young (8 weeks) and old (>33 weeks) mice. Mice that were fasted for 24 h were injected with absolute ethanol intragastrically and killed after 1 or ...

Biophysical cues are widely recognized to influence cell phenotype. While this evidence was established using static substrates, there is growing interest in creating stimulus-responsive biomaterials that better recapitulate the dynamic extracellular matrix. Here, a clickable, photodegradable hydrogel substrate that allows the user to precisely control substrate elasticity and topography in sit...

Better representations of groundwater processes need to be incorporated into large-scale hydrological models improve simulations regional- global-scale hydrology and climate, as well understanding feedbacks between the human natural systems. We a 2D flow model variable infiltration capacity (VIC) code address its lack lateral component. The water table was coupled with variably saturated VIC so...

I. E. Khodasevych, I. V. Shadrivov, D. A. Powell, W. S. T. Rowe, and A. Mitchell School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 02...