In humans, genetically diverse forms of muscular dystrophy are associated with a disrupted sarcoglycan complex. The sarcoglycan complex resides at the muscle plasma membrane where it associates with dystrophin. There are six known sarcoglycan proteins in mammals whereas there are only three in Drosophila melanogaster. Using imprecise P element excision, we generated three different alleles at t...

Suppose that $A$ is a semi-simple and commutative Banach algebra. In this paper we try to characterize the character space of the Banach algebra $C_{rm{BSE}}(Delta(A))$ consisting of all  BSE-functions on $Delta(A)$ where $Delta(A)$ denotes the character space of $A$. Indeed, in the case that $A=C_0(X)$ where $X$ is a non-empty locally compact Hausdroff space, we give a complete characterizatio...

Six acyl-CoA desaturase-encoding cDNAs from mRNA isolated from the spotted fireworm moth, Choristoneura parallela (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) were characterized and assayed for functionality. The expression levels of these cDNAs were determined in the pheromone gland and fat body by real-time PCR and the resulting patterns are in line with results from published studies on other moth sex pheromo...

We examined the function of the intracellular domains of the two known Drosophila Notch ligands, Delta and Serrate, by expressing wild-type and mutant forms in the developing Drosophila eye under the sevenless promoter. The expression of intracellularly truncated forms of either Delta (sev-DlTM) or Serrate (sev-SerTM) leads to extra photoreceptor phenotypes, similar to the eye phenotypes associ...

Discretization of singular functions is an important component in many problems to which level set methods have been applied. We present two methods for constructing consistent approximations to Dirac delta measures concentrated on piecewise smooth curves or surfaces. Both methods are designed to be convenient for level set simulations and are introduced to replace the commonly used but inconsi...