As in many anurans, males of the totally aquatic species, Xenopus laevis, advertise their sexual receptivity using vocalizations. Unusually for anurans, X. laevis females also advertise producing a fertility call that results in courtship duets between partners. Although all X. laevis calls consist of repetitive click trains, male and female calls exhibit sex-specific acoustic features that mig...

Floral organ identity and meristem determinacy in plants are controlled by combinations of activities mediated by MADS box genes. AGAMOUS-LIKE6 (AGL6)-like genes are MADS box genes expressed in floral tissues, but their biological functions are mostly unknown. Here, we describe an AGL6-like gene in rice (Oryza sativa), MOSAIC FLORAL ORGANS1 (MFO1/MADS6), that regulates floral organ identity and...

The identification of a putative novel type human papillomaviruses (HPV) strain related to HPV-RTRX3 in a subject with penile skin warts and glans lichen sclerosus is reported. A beta-HPV-RTRX3-like strain was detected in a immunocompetent patient with glans lichen sclerosus. HPV screening was performed by PCR in L1 gene. The MY fragment showed 99% nt identity with HPV-RTRX3 and 64.5% nt identi...

Based on protein sequence, we have isolated a cDNA for intercellular adhesion molecule 3 (ICAM-3), the most recently defined counter-receptor for lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 (LFA-1). Expression of the cDNA yields a product that reacts with monoclonal antibody to ICAM-3 and functions as a ligand for LFA-1. The deduced 518-amino acid sequence of the predicted mature protein defines a...

In ‘The Insignificance of Personal Identity to Bioethics,’ David Shoemaker argues that, contrary to common opinion, considerations of personal identity have no relevance to certain important debates in bioethics, such as abortion, the definition of death, and advanced directives. My aim is to show that Shoemaker is mistaken concerning the relevance of personal identity to the abortion debate – ...

Abstract There is ample scientific evidence for the importance of parental gender socialization in children’s binary development. Surprisingly, little known about role parents’ own identity development their children. Therefore, present study investigated association between and (i.e., similarity to same- other-gender individuals) a sample 142 Dutch families with child ages 6 12 years old. The ...

Abstract: We use the Ward identities corresponding to general linear transformations, and derive relations between transport coefficients of (2 + 1)-dimensional systems. Our analysis includes relativistic and Galilean invariant systems, as well as systems without boost invariance such as Lifshitz theories. We consider translation invariant, as well as broken translation invariant cases, and inc...

The objective of this paper is to use the Pfaffian technique to construct different classes of exact Pfaffian solutions and N -soliton solutions to some of the generalized integrable nonlinear partial differential equations in (3+1) dimensions. In this paper, I will show that the Pfaffian solutions to the nonlinear PDEs are nothing but Pfaffian identities. Solitons are among the most beneficial...

We propose the use of finite Fourier series as an alternative means of representing ovals in projective planes of even order. As an example to illustrate the method’s potential, we show that the set {w +w +w : 0 ≤ j ≤ 2} ⊂ GF(2) forms an oval if w is a primitive (2 +1) root of unity in GF(2) and GF(2) is viewed as an affine plane over GF(2). For the verification, we only need some elementary “t...

Two successive inductions specify blastomere identities, that is complex cell lineages and not specific tissues, in a major part of the early C. elegans embryo. The first induction acts along the anterior-posterior axis of the embryo and the second along the left-right axis. During the first induction a specific lineage program is induced in the posterior of the two AB blastomeres present in th...