The noncongruence between molecular phylogenies of the endosymbiont bacteria, Wolbachia and their hosts imply frequent horizontal transfer between species (Werren et al. 1995). A suggested mechanism for this is infection by macro-parasites, notably parasitoids. A recent report in Molecular Ecology (Noda et al. 2001) noted that two planthopper species shared Wolbachia strains with those recovere...

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Strains from anal swabs and chronic otitis externa in dogs were shown to be phylogenetically related to the Enterococcus faecium species group. They shared a number of phenotypic characteristics with these species, but they could be easily differentiated by biochemical reactions. In addition, the canine strains were unusual in their nearly complete failure to grow on sodium azide-containing ent...

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Lung cancer is the most frequently diagnosed major cancer in the world and is the leading cause of cancerrelated mortality in both men and women(Brambella et al., 2001; Hussain, 2010). This is largely due to carcinogenic effects of cigarette smoke. Over the coming decades, changes in smoking habits will greatly influence lung cancer incidence and mortality as well as prevalence of various histo...

The success of assisted reproduction, although gradually increasing over the years, is still less than satisfactory. Many couples have benefited from this treatment; many have also been left frustrated following multiple failed attempts (Bulent Urman et al. 2005). Repeated implantation failure (RIF), defined as three or more failed IVF attempts or failure of IVF after cumula- Abstracts of the 5...

W e would like to thank Dr. Wong for the response to our article “No time to waste—the ethical challenges created by CRISPR”. Dr. Wong’s letter addresses a question about the relationship between biology and society: that “prevailing papers” on CRISPR-Cas9 rarely emphasize understanding the microbiological processes that make CRISPR-Cas9 an effective defensive mechanism. Instead, scientists and...

The mouse Mycs gene is a member of the intronless Myc gene family. Both human and rat Mycs genes have been mapped to chromosome X (Moton et al., 1989; Serikawa et al., 1992), while the mouse Mycs was initially localized by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to chromosome 19B (Sugiyama et al., 1999). The apoptosis-inducing activity of intronless Myc genes is evolutionarily conserved in ma...