Chengde Tong 1,2 ID , Mingqiao Wang 1 ID , Baige Zhao 3, Zuosheng Yin 1 and Ping Zheng 1,4,* 1 School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, China; [email protected] (C.T.); [email protected] (M.W.); [email protected] (Z.Y.) 2 School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, China 3 704 Institute, China Shipbui...

Infection of one host by multiple pathogen genotypes represents an important area of pathogen ecology and evolution that lacks a broad empirical foundation. Multiple infection of Silene latifolia by Microbotryum violaceum was studied under field and greenhouse conditions using the natural polymorphism for mating-type bias as a marker. Field transmission resulted in frequent multiple infection, ...

The addition of 4-trifluoromethyl-1-ethynylbenzene, phenylacetylene, or 4-ethynylanisole to P-mesityldiphenylmethylenephosphine, 1, produced photoluminescent 1,2-dihydrophosphinines 4a-c, respectively, in quantitative yield via a [4 + 2] cycloaddition. Limited reactivity was observed between 1 and non-aromatic alkynes. P-[Bis(trimethylsilyl)amino][(trimethylsilyl)methylene]phosphine, 2, and P-m...

Although the evolutionary consequences of within-host competition among pathogens have been examined extensively, there exists a critical gap in our understanding of factors determining the prevalence of multiple infections. Here we examine the effects of relatedness among strains of the anther-smut pathogen Microbotryum violaceum on the probability of multiple infection in its host, Silene lat...

We studied representatives of seven vetigastropod families in an extremely well-preserved Plio-Pleistocene mollusc fauna found in relatively deep water sediments (c. 200-300 m paleodepth) from the north-western Philippines. The fauna is systematically described and its paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographical character is explored. Twenty-six species of gastropods were studied, three of whic...