Special Issues

Biology publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Environmental Microbes: From Distribution Exploration to Biosignatures Analysis submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 437 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental microbes; biogeochemical cycling; microbial biosignatures; astrobiology; geology; ecosystem health; microbial ecology; extremophiles; taphonomy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Ion Channels in Cancer Progression
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 406 | Submission Open
Keywords: cancer cell biology; ion channels; calcium; cancer therapy; cerebral activity; tumor microenvironment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer Development, Metastasis and Treatment submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 357 | Submission Open
Keywords: extracellular vesicles and exosomes; biological activity in development; differentiation; therapeutic applications; cancer biology; nanomedicine; biomarkers; tumor development; metastasis; drug delivery
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Physiology and Pathophysiology of Skin
edited by Seon-Pil Jin
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 322 | Submission Open
Keywords: epidermal barrier; melanogenesis; wound healing; skin immunity; sensory perception; dermatitis; psoriasis; atopic dermatitis; autoimmune skin disorders; therapeutic approaches
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
The Cellular and Molecular Bases for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs)
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submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 305 | Submission Open
Keywords: intestinal inflammation; mucosa; lamina propria; colitis ulcerosa; Crohn’ s disease; endotoxin tolerance; treatment strategies; inflammatory bowel diseases; immune cells
(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)
Biological Control of Vegetable Diseases and Bacterial Molecular Biology
edited by Lei Li and Xiaofeng Zhou
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 279 | Submission Open
Keywords: bacterial diseases in horticulture; plant growth-promoting bacteria; biological control of pathogens via antagonistic bacteria; genomic; transcriptomic; proteomics studies of antagonistic or pathogenic bacteria interactions; beneficial effects of bacteria on plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses; pathogenic mechanism or biocontrol mechanism; volatile organic compounds; secondary metabolites
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Applications of Proteomics in Biological Fluids and Biopsies
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submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 274 | Submission Open
Keywords: proteomics; biological fluids; biomarkers; biopsies; disease; diagnosis; mechanisms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Protein Interaction and Recognition submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open
Keywords: protein/protein interactions; protein/DNA interactions; protein/RNA interactions; protein/antibiotic interactions; protein recognition; X-ray structure; EM structure; structure-based protein engineering; affinity chromatography; binding assays
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Hormonal Regulation of Female Reproduction submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 241 | Submission Open
Keywords: reproduction; fertility; oestrous cycle; pregnancy; steroid hormones; prostaglandins; metabolic hormones
(This special issue belongs to the Section Reproductive Biology)
Animal Models of Autoimmune Diseases
edited by Feng Zhu and Keqiang Chen
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 224 | Submission Open
Keywords: autoimmune disease; infection; innate immunity; inflammation; cancer risk; therapeutic target; adaptive immunity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Milk Oligosaccharides: Biological Functions and Application Prospects
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submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 219 | Submission Open
Keywords: milk oligosaccharides; colostrum; HMO; gut microbiota; immune modulator; prebiotics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Research Progress on Parasitic and Microbial Infection and Immunity submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 206 | Submission Open
Keywords: host; pathway; defense; innate immune responses; adaptive immune responses; pathogenicity; immune signalling; bacterial infection; viral infection; parasitic infection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Infection Biology)
NF-κB and Its Role in Health and Disease
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submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 192 | Submission Open
Keywords: NF-κ B; κ B; IKKs; inflammation; pro-inflammation; immune system; disease; biomarker; gene
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Evolutionary Biology from an Information Theory Approach submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 171 | Submission Open
Keywords: evolution; population genetics; information; Kullback– Leibler; Jeffreys divergence; population stability index
(This special issue belongs to the Section Evolutionary Biology)
Biological Bases of Alzheimer's Disease submission deadline 1 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 265 | Submission Open
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease; amyloid-beta (Aβ ) plaques; neurofibrillary tangles; neuroinflammation; biological mechanisms; APP; PSEN; memory impairment  
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Single-Cell Omics Biology
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submission deadline 1 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 236 | Submission Open
Keywords: epigenetics; cellular heterogeneity; developmental biology; disease mechanisms; therapeutic strategies; multi-omics integration; rare cell populations; computational biology; data visualization and interpretation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Genomics)
Feature Papers in 'Conservation Biology and Biodiversity'
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submission deadline 11 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1914 | Submission Open
Keywords: population genomics and diversity; heterozygosity; inbreeding; hybridization; adaptive introgression; natural selection; speciation; bottleneck and population fragmentation; genetic drift; gene flow; extinction risk; evolvability; paleogenomics; phylogeography; conservation units; ecotypes; phylogenetics and systematics; eDNA; non-invasive genetic sampling; environmental monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Conservation Biology and Biodiversity)
Patho-Mechanisms Associated with Oral Autoimmune Disease and Cancer
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submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15072 | Submission Open
Keywords: oral cancer; blistering diseases; autoimmunity; cell-adhesion; microenvironment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Genetic Characteristics and Pathogenesis of Zoonotic Diseases
edited by Dima El Safadi and
submission deadline 19 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open
Keywords: zoonotic diseases; genetic characteristics; pathogenic mechanisms; host– pathogen interactions; transmission dynamics; disease emergence; One Health approach TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian   //   TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back //     This page is in English   Translate to Simplified Chinese         Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Lao Latvian Lithuanian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Simplified Chinese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Traditional Chinese Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh   Always translate English to Simplified ChinesePRO Never translate English Never translate admin.mdpi.com
(This special issue belongs to the Section Infection Biology)
Development of New Optical Techniques and Methods for Basic Biology and Biomedical Applications
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14609 | Submission Open
Keywords: food production and control; imaging (multispectral/hyperspectral/time resolved); luminescence; metabolism (animal/vegetable); optical biopsy; optical coherence tomography; optical neuronal networks; photoacoustic tomography; remote sensing; spectroscopy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
New Insights in Neurogenetics
edited by James P. Orengo
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9480 | Submission Open
Keywords: neurogenetics; neurological disorders; neurodevelopmental; neurodegenerative; neurology; psychiatry; neuroscience; animal models; whole-genome sequencing; personalized medicine
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Approaches for the Reconstruction of Protein Families’ and Superfamilies’ Evolution with Consequences for De Novo Protein Design 2.0
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7833 | Submission Open
Keywords: protein family evolution; protein superfamily; convergent evolution; divergent evolution; molecular phylogeny; horizontal gene transfer; structure– function relationship; de novo protein design
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Proteomics in Immunology and Cell Signaling
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7510 | Submission Open
Keywords: proteomics; biological mass spectrometry; cell signaling; innate immunity; T and B cell immune response; extracellular vesicles; immunopeptidomics; clinical proteomics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)
Roles and Functions of Neurotrophins and Their Receptors in the Brain submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7307 | Submission Open
Keywords: aging; behavior; learning; memory; mental disorders; neuroanatomy; neurobiology; neuronal plasticity; neurophysiology; synaptic plasticity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Mechanism of Interaction between Rhizosphere Microbes and Host Plants
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4583 | Submission Open
Keywords: rhizosphere microbes; microbial isolation and culture; plant-microbe interaction mechanisms; microbiome assembly
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Science)
Recent Advances in Soil Health: Influences of Organic Carbon and Microbiota
edited by , Audrius Gegeckas and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4414 | Submission Open
Keywords: diversity of soil microbial community; soil microbial function in environment; soil microbiomics; carbon sequestration; soil organic matter (SOM); soil organic carbon (SOC); soil quality; plant– soil microbial interaction; eco-friendly agriculture; biofertilizers
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Social Behavior in Zebrafish submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3247 | Submission Open
Keywords: zebrafish; social behavior; mutant; transgenic; central nervous system; autism; pharmacology; imaging; genetics; environmental factor
(This special issue belongs to the Section Behavioural Biology)
Genetic Resources and Gene Editing Tools for Plant Resistance: Recent Advancements and Future Perspectives
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2082 | Submission Open
Keywords: abiotic stress; biotic stress; crop improvement; genome editing; plant resistance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Science)
Copper Biology in Health and Disease
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1800 | Submission Open
Keywords: copper and tumor growth; cancer; chemotherapy; copper chelation; copper homeostasis; metal nutrition; copper transport; clinical cancer research
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Mitochondria: The Signaling Organelle
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1196 | Submission Open
Keywords: mitochondria; signal transduction; homeostasis; metabolism; apoptosis; redox biology; organelle communication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Pathophysiology of Hypertension and Related Diseases submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1087 | Submission Open
Keywords: arterial hypertension; resistant hypertension; secondary hypertension; prevention and screening of hypertension; hypertensive crisis; treatment of hypertension; obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome; pathophsyiology of hypertension; hypertension and the environment; (pre)hypertension and genetics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Diet-Microbiota Impacts on Intestinal Inflammation
edited by Guilherme Zweig Rocha
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 227 | Submission Open
Keywords: intestinal microbiota; diet; inflammation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)
Biology of Brain Tumors: State of the Art and Future Directions
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 191 | Submission Open
Keywords: brain tumors; heterogeneous diseases; molecular basis; cancer genetics; cancer metabolomics; biomarker studies; immunotherapy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Biology and Conservation of Killer Whales
edited by Tracey Rogers
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 182 | Submission Open
Keywords: cetaceans; biology; ecology; conservation; impacts; killer whales; orca whales; communication; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
Advance in Sleep and Circadian Rhythms 2.0 submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open
Keywords: sleep physiology; sleep regulation; sleep disorders; circadian rhythms; circadian dysregulation; sleep evolution; sleep function
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Immune-Cancer Crosstalk
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 84 | Submission Open
Keywords: cancer; immune; T-cell; innate; adaptive; checkpoint; immunosuppressive
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Advances in Leishmaniasis and Chagas Disease: Biology, Epidemiology, Treatment and Control submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5689 | Submission Open
Keywords: Leishmaniasis; Chagas disease; immunopathogeny; diagnosis; epidemiology; control; clinical studies; treatment; vaccine  
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Biosynthesis of Metabolites from Microorganisms, or Microorganism-Host Interaction? (Volume II) submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 207 | Submission Open
Keywords: biosynthesis; biological activity; biosynthesis regulation; microbial metabolites; microbe– host reaction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Novel Dynamics and Mechanisms of Stromal-Leukocyte Interactions in Chronic Tissue Inflammation and Healing
edited by Matthias Friedrich, Pablo Céspedes and Mathilde Pohin
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open
Keywords: autoimmunity; chronicity; wound healing; intolerance; immune/immunological synapses; cytokine networks; antigen presentation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Statistical and Bioinformatics Methods in Population Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Studies
edited by Bjarki Eldon
submission deadline 20 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open
Keywords: coalescent; genetic variation; inference; speciation; pan-genome; epidemiology; biodiversity; pathogens; genome-wide association studies; ecological genomics TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian   //   TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back //     This page is in English   Translate to Simplified Chinese         Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Lao Latvian Lithuanian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Simplified Chinese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Traditional Chinese Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh   Always translate English to Simplified ChinesePRO Never translate English Never translate admin.mdpi.com
(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioinformatics)
Immune Microenvironment and Molecular Mechanism of Glioma
edited by Carolina Cristina Jancic
submission deadline 24 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 144 | Submission Open
Keywords: gliomas; tumor microenvironment; immune response; tumor evasion; tumor resistance; immunotherapy TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian   //   TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back //     This page is in Latin   Translate to Simplified Chinese         Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Lao Latvian Lithuanian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Simplified Chinese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Traditional Chinese Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh   Always translate Latin to Simplified ChinesePRO Never translate Latin Never translate admin.mdpi.com
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
The Rules of Life Rethought: Latest Progress in Quantum Biology
edited by Daniel R. Kattnig and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6911 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum biology; non-trivial quantum effects in biology; quantum tunnelling; quantum coherence; photosynthesis; energy transport; magnetoreception; spin and magnetic field effects
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biophysics)
Evolutionary Insights into Life History submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6443 | Submission Open
Keywords: human evolution; evolutionary developemental biology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Evolutionary Biology)
Novel Insights of Bone Repair: Strategies for Improvement, Microscopic, Molecular and Ultrastrastructural Aspects
edited by , Kathryn Grandfield and Karina Carneiro
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2447 | Submission Open
Keywords: bone repair; aging; bone remodeling; biomaterials; drug delivery; bone regeneration
Dermal-Epidermal Cross-Talk and Bioactive Mediators in Physiological and Pathological Skin Conditions
edited by Daniela Kovacs, and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2023 | Submission Open
Keywords: dermal-epidermal cross-talk; extracellular matrix; bioactive lipids; growth factors; barrier function; inflammation; pigmentation; skin cancer
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Mosquito-Borne Diseases—Updates on Epidemiology, Surveillance and Control
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submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1925 | Submission Open
Keywords: mosquito-borne diseases; mosquito; arbovirus; epidemiology; surveillance; control; emerging and re-emerging threat; community participation; incursions  
(This special issue belongs to the Section Infection Biology)
Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease (2nd Edition)
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 623 | Submission Open
Keywords: gut microbiota; ‘ gut-x’ axis; dysbiosis; food nutrition; metabolites; type 2 diabetes mellitus; gut health; immunity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
The Expression and/or Role of Glycoconjugates in Physiological and Pathological Conditions submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 493 | Submission Open
Keywords: glycobiology; glycoproteins; glycolipids; glycosyltransferases; glycoconjugates
Animal Models of Arthritis
edited by Nevena Arsenović-Ranin and Biljana Bufan
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 484 | Submission Open
Keywords: animal models; rheumatoid arthritis; osteoarthritis; inflammation; immunopathology; pathological features; joints; treatment; drug screening; traditional medicine
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Biology and Function of Inflammasomes
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submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 386 | Submission Open
Keywords: damage-associated molecular patterns; DAMPs; pattern recognition receptor; immune inflammatory response; inflammasome
(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)
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