In macaque, several visual areas are devoted to analyze motion in the visual field, and V6 is one of these areas. In macaque, area V6 occupies the ventral part of the anterior bank of the parieto-occipital sulcus (POs), is retinotopically-organized and contains a point-to-point representation of the retinal surface. V6 is a motion sensitive area that largely represents the peripheral part of th...

Sequence heterogeneities of variable positions located at regions V1 and V6 of 56 cloned 16S rRNA genes were determined from six Escherichia coli strains. These nucleotides were involved in secondary structure base-pairing of stem-loops. Compensatory and single mutations have occurred but secondary structure was conserved. Eight different sequences were found in the stem at region V1 indicating...

CD44 pre-mRNA includes 20 exons, of which exons 1-5 (C1-C5) and exons 16-20 (C6-C10) are constant exons, whereas exons 6-15 (V1-V10) are variant exons. V6-exon-containing isoforms have been known to be implicated in tumor cell invasion and metastasis. In the present study, we performed a SR protein screen for CD44 V6 splicing using overexpression and lentivirus-mediated shRNA treatment. Using a...

Recent studies suggest the presence of a human homologue of monkey V6 in the dorsal posterior bank of the parieto-occipital sulcus. Monkey V6 comprises a retinotopic representation with relative peripheral visual field emphasis and is sensitive to visual motion. We studied sensitivity to visual motion in human parieto-occipital sulcus. Our upper peripheral visual field stimulus enabled us to di...

Most scientific models are not physical objects, and this raises important questions. What sort of entity are models, what is truth in a model, and how do we learn about models? In this paper I argue that models share important aspects in common with literary fiction, and that therefore theories of fiction can be brought to bear on these questions. In particular, I argue that the pretence theor...

There is an error in the third sentence of the “16S library preparation” subsection of the Materials and Methods. The first primer listed is incorrect. The correct sentence is: The V6 region was amplified with custom barcoded primers that consist of a region that anneals to the V6 region of interest, followed by a unique five basepair barcode, and the Illumina sequencing adapter [44]: V6-L [5’A...