In a symbiosis, two or more evolutionarily distinct organisms communicate with one another in order to co-exist and co-adapt in their shared environment. The mutualistic symbiosis between the bioluminescent marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri and the Hawaiian squid Euprymna scolopes provides a model system that allows scientists to examine the mechanisms by which this communication occurs (McFall-...

A key property of herpes simplex viruses (HSVs) is their ability to establish latent infection in sensory or autonomic ganglia and to reactivate on physical, hormonal, or emotional stress. In latently infected ganglia, HSV expresses a long noncoding RNA and a set of microRNAs, but viral proteins are not expressed. The mechanism by which latent HSV reactivates is unknown. A key question is, what...

the present study was conducted with a view to know the productive and reproductive performance of jamunapari, black bengal and crossbred goats in chittagong district during the period of may to december 2012. the data on productive and reproductive traits were collected from 324 goats as a whole. in the present study, the birth weight of jamunapari goats was higher than other crosses. the adul...