Abstract Aims Since gravitropism is one of the primary determinants root development, facilitating penetration into soil and subsequent absorption water nutrients, we studied this response in rice. Methods The 226 Chinese rice micro-core accessions drought-resistant core were assessed through modified gravity-bending experiment genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) was used to map associated ...

California, Berkeley; and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Stanford University. The authors thank Maite Careaga, Scott Gehlbach, John Litwack, Douglass North, Yingyi Qian, and Daniel Treisman for helpful comments. Pathologies of Federalism, Russian Style: Political Institutions and Economic Transition Rui J. P. de ...

Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a bursate nematode parasite that causes eosinophilic meningitis (or meningoencephalitis) in humans in many parts of the world. The genomic data from A. cantonensis will form a useful resource for comparative genomic and chemogenomic studies to aid the development of diagnostics and therapeutics. We have sequenced, assembled and annotated the genome of A. cantonens...

Magnetotactic bacteria(MTB) display magnetotaxis ability because of biomineralization intracellular nanometer-sized, membrane-bound organelles termed magnetosomes. Despite having been discovered more than half a century, only few representatives MTB have isolated and cultured in the laboratory. In this study, we report genomic characterization novel marine magnetotactic spirillum strain SH-1 be...

Examining Priorities for a Primate Genome Project We agree with the premise of Edwin H. McConkey, Agit Varki, and cosignatories that "[a] primate genome project deserves high priority" in the U.S. biomedical research enterprise (Letters, 25 Aug., p. 1295), but we disagree with their selection of the chimpanzee as the focus for these efforts, and with the recommendation to commit resources to ge...

The current outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)in China threatened humankind worldwide. The coronaviruses contains the largest RNA genome among all other known RNA viruses, therefore the disease etiology can be understood by analyzing the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2. In this study, we used an ab-intio based computational tool VMir to scan the complete geno...

Background and Objective: Enterococcal infections are considered the most common nosocomial infections. Nowadays, enterococci show high resistance to common antibiotics, especially vancomycin. Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium is one of the most common nosocomial infections, which is included in the World Health Organization priority pathogens list for research and development of new an...

Editorial If we draw a parallel among two of the age-old scourges of humans, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Helicobacter pylori, we will find a great superimposition of the two in terms of their history, ecology, geographic distribution and the fact that both the pathogens get fiercely engaged with host innate defenses and avoid clearance due to being highly adapted to their niches [1]. However...

We show there exists a continuous compactly supported function ' de ned on the reals satsifying '(x) = c0'(2x) + c1'(2x 1) + c2'(2x 2) if and only if c1 = 1, c0 + c2 = 1, and jc0j; jc2j < 1. The functions ' are examples of scaling functions from the theory of wavelets. x