Comparative transcriptomics can now be conducted on organisms in natural settings, which has greatly enhanced understanding of genome-environment interactions. Here, we demonstrate the utility and potential pitfalls of comparative transcriptomics of wild organisms, with an example from three cyprinid fish species (Teleostei:Cypriniformes). We present extensively filtered and annotated transcrip...

Fishing and introduced species are among the most important stressors affecting freshwaters and can also be strong selective agents. We examined the combined effects of commercial fishing and an introduced predator (Nile perch, Lates niloticus) on life history traits in an African cyprinid fish (Rastrineobola argentea) native to the Lake Victoria basin in East Africa. To understand whether thes...

ABSTRACT We present photometric properties of 183 member galaxies in the Abell 426 cluster using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging and spectroscopic observation. Detailed morphology based on visual classification followed by multicomponent image decomposition 179 is presented SDSS g, r, i bands. More than 80 per cent members are early-type (ETGs), with elliptical, dwarf elliptical (dE), l...

Abstract We determined the effect of HIV infection on deaths among persons >18 months age with culture-confirmed candidemia at 29 sentinel hospitals in South Africa during 2012–2017. Of 1,040 case-patients documented status and in-hospital survival data, 426 (41%) were HIV-seropositive. The case-fatality rate was 54% (228/426) for HIV-seropositive participants 37% (230/614) HIV-seronegative (cr...

This study assessed the grade 3/4 AE costs of N+I, N+C, and P+A from CheckMate-214 (CM-214), CheckMate-9ER (CM-9ER), KEYNOTE-426 (KN-426), respectively. Grade rates were obtained individual patient-level data CM-214 (restricted to median follow-up [RmFU], 13.1 months), CM-9ER (RmFU, 12.8 published results KN-426 trial (mFU, months). Per-patient all-cause treatment-related (TR) calculated for AE...

Recently, an HLA-B*3501-restricted cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTL) epitope in the nucleoprotein (NP418–426) of influenza A viruses was identified, which exhibited a high degree of variability. In the present study, the recognition of epitope variants by human cytotoxic Tlymphocytes (CTL) was investigated. Human CD8+ CTL clones were specific for NP418–426 epitope variants within one subtype of inf...

We have examined 426 Voyager fields distributed across the sky for O VI (λλ 1032/1038Å) emission from the Galactic diffuse interstellar medium. No such emission was detected in any of our observed fields. Our most constraining limit was a 90% confidence upper limit of 2600 photons cm −2 sr −1 s −1 on the doublet emission in the direction (l, b) = (117.3, 50.6). Combining this with an absorption...

† An earlier version of this work has appeared in the Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1-208-426-5743; fax: +1-208-426-2470. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S. Smith); [email protected] (J. Frenzel). URL: http://coen.boisestate.edu/ssmith/ Abstract A single-chip shared-...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency of complications in Laparoscopic cholecystectomies performed in Hamadan during 1997 to 2005. METHODS In this retrospective cross sectional study, 426 patients with cholecystitis who were admitted to Hamadan hospitals including Ekbatan, Tamin Ejtamaiee, Mobasher, Boali and Artesh and were subjected to laparoscopic cholecystectomy from 1997 to 2005 were evalu...

The 70-kDa microbial heat shock protein (mHSP70) has a profound effect on the immune system, interacting with the CD40 receptor on DC and monocytes to produce cytokines and chemokines. The mHSP70 also induces maturation of dendritic cells (DC) and thus acts as an alternative ligand to CD40L on T cells. In this investigation, we have identified a cytokine-stimulating epitope (peptide 407-426), b...