COMPARATIVE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES OF FUNGAL PROTEASES REVEAL GENE GAINS IN THE MYCOPARASITIC AND NEMATODE-PARASITIC FUNGUS CLONOSTACHYS ROSEA

Comparative evolutionary histories of fungal proteases reveal gene gains in the mycoparasitic and nematode-parasitic fungus Clonostachys rosea

Abstract Background The ascomycete fungus Clonostachys rosea sex shop arles (order Hypocreales) can control several important plant diseases caused by plant pathogenic fungi and nematodes.Subtilisin-like serine proteases are considered to play an important role in pathogenesis in entomopathogenic, mycoparasitic, and nematophagous fungi used for bio

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Is resource specialization the key?: some, but not all Red Crossbill call types associate with their key conifers in a diverse North American landscape

Red Crossbills (Fringillidae: Loxia curvirostra) are finches specialized to pry open cones and extract seeds of coniferous trees.Within the species, variable bill morphology may provide more efficient foraging on some species of conifers than others.Subgroups also have distinctly different contact calls often given in flight (hereafter, call types)

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The effect of colony translocation on meliponaries of Melipona scutellaris (L.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from northeastern Brazil by morphogeometric analysis

This study investigated the morphometric variation in Melipona scutellaris stingless bees rational hive boxes from five states, inserted into the natural range of the species occurrence in northeastern Brazil.The cluster analysis (UPGMA) showed three distinct groups by determining the cutoff point.The multivariate analysis invertatop squeeze bottle

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Biophysics of Cell-Substrate Interactions Under Shear

chiggate.com Cells adhere to substrates through mechanosensitive focal adhesion complexes.Measurements that probe how cells detach from substrates when they experience an applied force connect molecular-scale aspects of cell adhesion with the biophysical properties of adherent cells.Such forces can be applied through shear devices that flow fluid i

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