Fusarium graminearum, the causal agent of Fusarium head blight in cereal crops, produces sexual progeny (ascospore) as an important overwintering and dissemination strategy for completing the disease cycle. This homothallic ascomycetous species does not require a partner for sexual mating; instead, it carries two opposite mating-type (MAT) loci in a single nucleus to control sexual development....

Sexual identity development was explored as a predictor of sexual self-concept and erotophobia–erotophilia using student sample. operationalized Worthington et al.’s Measure Identity Development, which is theoretically based on Marcia’s model. Based scale, there are four domains: commitment to one’s identity, exploration orientation uncertainty, synthesis/integration identity. Several Snell’s S...

the issues that arise in this articles are the causes and the bases of social - and sexual - devience according to a sociological point of view. then a search through a number of 350 files of sexual - crimes in babol, declares the causes on a sociological point of view, cultural transmission & contrast theory. in assessment during this research regarding age, sex & occupation as the main criter...

Adult men's height reflects, not only their genetic endowment, but also the conditions that were present during their development in utero and in childhood. We compared the adult heights of men who committed one or more sexual offenses and who were erotically interested in prepubescent children (pedophilic sexual offenders; n=223), those who were erotically interested in pubescent children (heb...

How sexual regulators translate global sexual fate into appropriate local sexual differentiation events is perhaps the least understood aspect of sexual development. Here we have used ChIP followed by deep sequencing (ChIP-seq) to identify direct targets of the nematode global sexual regulator Transformer 1 (TRA-1), a transcription factor acting at the interface between organism-wide and cell-s...

The persistent prevalence of HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM) within the United States warrants examination of the social-sexual factors that contribute to the spread of HIV within this population. We reviewed 15 studies correlating disproportionately high child-sexual abuse (CSA) and victimization during sexual development with adult sexual risk behavior and HIV amongst MSM....