We report three new cases of allergy to Gammarus, two of them involving cutaneous symptoms, and the third one with occupational asthma. The results showed exposure to feed containing Gammarus shrimp to be the main cause of the allergic symptoms in the three patients. In all cases the intervention of IgE was demonstrated, with the absence of cross-reactions with other common allergenic arthropods.

Changing environmental calcium (Ca) and rising cyanobacterial blooms in lake habitats could strongly reduce Daphnia growth and survival. Here, we assessed the effects of maternal Ca in Daphnia on transfer of resistance to their offspring against Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806 (M. aeruginosa). Laboratory microcosm experiments were performed to examine effects in Daphnia carinata (D. carinata) an...

Based on Furusawa’s theory [7], we present an integral representation for the L-function L(s, π× τ), where π is a cuspidal automorphic representation on GSp4 related to a holomorphic Siegel modular form, and where τ is an arbitrary cuspidal automorphic representation on GL2. As an application, a special value result for this L-function in the spirit of Deligne’s conjecture is proved.

Phenolic compounds are an important group of contaminants in tap water (Kraybi l l 1978). To prevent water-transmittable epidemic diseases, drinking water is often chemically chlorinated, which may cause chemical chlor inat ion of these contaminants and the formation of stable and unstable chloro-derivat ives. Although industr ia l and agr icu l tura l practice appear to be major contributors o...

Paland and Lynch (Reports, 17 February 2006, p. 990) showed that in Daphnia pulex, the ratio of amino acid replacement to silent substitution in mitochondrial genes is higher in asexual lineages than in sexual lineages. If this base-composition bias is maintained by selection, it too should alter following transitions in reproductive mode. Analysis reveals no such change in the genomes of D. pu...