The purpose of this study was to clone and characterize ddx4 and dnd1 homologs in snakeskin gourami (Trichopodus pectoralis) and to determine their expression levels during larval development and in the gonads of males and females. Both cDNAs contain...
Spinyhead croaker (Collichthys lucidus) is an economically important fish suffering from population decline caused by overfishing and habitat destruction. Researches on the development of primordial germ cell (PGC) and reproduction biology were an em...
In a vast variety of prokaryotes such as Escherichia coli and Streptomyces lividans, the DNA degradation (Dnd) CDE protein complex (consisting of DndC, DndD, and DndE), together with the DndA/IscS protein and the DndFGH complex, function as a defense...
The Ter mutation in Dead-End 1 (Dnd1), Dnd1Ter, which leads to a premature stop codon, has been determined to be the cause for primordial germ cell deficiency, accompanied with a high incidence of congenital testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) or ter...
In recent years, the Chinese hook snout carp (Opsariichthys bidens) is becoming increasingly popular due to its high nutritional value and delicious taste. However, anthropogenic influences have caused a rapid reduction in its population. Considering...
While the split diesel bracketing ammonia (D/N/D) injection mode has shown high potential for performance enhancement in ammonia/diesel dual-fuel engines, its key operational parameters require systematic investigation. This study conducts a numerica...
dnd is a germline-specific maternal RNA expressed in various vertebrate classes, which encodes an RNA-binding protein that is essential for PGC migration. The purpose of this study is fundamental research about starry flounder dnd gene for germ cell...
Background/Objectives: Inactivation of the dnd gene involved in the development of primordial germ cells (PGCs) leads to the loss of gametes and halts reproductive development. Studies on sterile fish allow for the identification of genes and process...
Cetaceans are artiodactyls adapted to live in the marine environment, and this group includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Although mitochondrial nucleotide diversity has been reported separately for many cetacean groups, the proportion of delete...
SARS-CoV-2 has adapted continuously since 2019, yet no multi-parameter framework has characterized this trajectory across geographically distinct United States populations. We present a systematic 13-parameter analysis of 137,059 high-quality genomes...
This article presents the results of the first stage of a four-phase research program aimed at the comprehensive evaluation and enhancement in the functional properties of polymeric packaging films intended for active food packaging systems through t...
The properties and applications of soybean protein isolates (SPIs) have been extensively investigated. In this study, we determined the optimal conditions for the preparation of the DND358 soybean protein isolate (DND358-SPI), assessed its physicoche...
The goal of this work is to introduce the notion of topological degree via the principle of the degree of nondensifiability (DND for short). We establish some new fixed point theorems, concerning, Schaefer’s fixed point theorem and the nonlinea...
Small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLVs) represent a very heterogeneous group of ss-RNA viruses that infect sheep and goats worldwide. They cause important, deleterious effects on animal production and limit the animal trade. SRLVs show a high genetic var...
We sequenced the mitochondrial genome of six colonial volvocine algae, namely: Pandorina morum, Pandorina colemaniae, Volvulina compacta, Colemanosphaera angeleri, Colemanosphaera charkowiensi, and Yamagishiella unicocca. Previous studies have typica...
The taxonomic status of the H17N10 and H18N11 influenza A viruses isolated from bats remains unclear due to the absence of quantitative classification criteria at this taxonomic level. A total of 3328 representative IAV genomes, encompassing all eigh...
The obligate biotrophic fungal pathogen Blumeria graminis forma specialis tritici (B.g. tritici) is the causal agent of wheat powdery mildew disease. The TOPLESS-related 1 (TPR1) corepressor regulates plant immunity, but its role in regulating wheat...
Sturgeons also known as living fossils are facing threats to their survival due to overfishing and interference in natural habitats. Sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus) due to its rapid reproductive cycle and small body size can be used as a sterile host fo...
Hybridisation in plants may cause a shift from sexual to asexual seed formation (apomixis). Indeed, natural apomictic plants are usually hybrids, but it is still unclear how hybridisation could trigger the shift to apomixis. The genome evolution of o...
An estimation of the proportion of nonsynonymous to synonymous mutation (dn/ds, ω) of the SARS-CoV-2 genome would indicate the evolutionary dynamics necessary to evolve into novel strains with increased infection, virulence, and vaccine neutral...
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is an important livestock species with a geographic range spanning all continents, including arid and semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia. The Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana), a wild relative of the domestic goat inhabit...
Carbon-based nanomaterials (CBN) are currently used in many biomedical applications. The research includes optimization of single grain size and conglomerates of pure detonated nanodiamond (DND), modified nanodiamond particles and graphene oxide (GO)...
Sustainability is important in voltage regulation control in grids and must be done successfully. In this paper, a novel tilt-fractional order integral-derivative with a second order derivative and low-pass filters controller, referred to as TI&lambd...
Over a decade ago, it was confirmed that detonation nanodiamond (DND) powders reflect very cold neutrons (VCNs) diffusively at any incidence angle and that they reflect cold neutrons quasi-specularly at small incidence angles. In the present publicat...
Aqueous suspensions (colloids) containing detonation nano-diamond (DND) feature in most applications of DND and are an indispensable stage of its production; therefore, the interaction of DND with water is actively studied. However, insufficient atte...
This study determined the transcriptomes of eight Oedogoniales species, including six species from Oedogonium and two species from Oedocladium to conduct phylotranscriptomic and evolutionary analyses. 155,952 gene families and 192 single-copy orthogr...
In order to gain a deeper understanding of the recently emerged and highly divergent Omicron variant of concern (VoC), a study of amino acid substitution (AAS) patterns was performed and compared with those of the other four successful variants of co...
The evolution of venom and the selection pressures that act on toxins have been increasingly researched within toxinology in the last two decades, in part due to the exceptionally high rates of diversifying selection observed in animal toxins. In 201...
Identifying the basis of phenotypic variation is a key objective of genetics. This work has been mostly limited to model systems with a plethora of genetic manipulation and functional characterization tools. With the development of high-throughput se...
Some, probably most and perhaps all, members of the phylum Nemertea are poisonous, documented so far from marine and benthic specimens. Although the toxicity of these animals has been long known, systematic studies on the characterization of toxins,...
Undesired maturation and reproduction are major challenges in fish aquaculture regarding genetic introgression, precocious maturation, and reproduction-related mortality, which can have profound ecological or economic impacts. Farming reproductively...
In this paper, an iterative learning control scheme is applied to the interconnected RGB light strip modeled with so-called spatially interconnected systems. The proposed strategy starts with formulating a set of Kirchhoff equalities, which lead to t...
Cancer is a disease driven by both somatic mutations that increase survival and proliferation of cell lineages and the evolution of genes associated with cancer risk in populations. Several genes associated with cancer in humans, hereafter cancer gen...
Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) are no longer considered entities solely responsible for cellular bioenergetics, but as dynamic, multifaceted, and synchronized systems that integrate genome architecture, evolutionary processes, and organismal phy...
It has been reported that CD200 (Cluster of Differentiation 200), expressed in neurons, regulates microglial activation in the central nervous system, and a decrease in CD200 expression causes an increase in microglial activation and neuronal loss. T...
Apart from the frequently used high-temperature annealing of detonation nanodiamonds (DNDs) in an inert environment, laser irradiation of DNDs in a liquid can be effectively used for onion-like carbon (OLC) formation. Here, we used fully de-aggregate...
Ultrasound imaging is a first-line assessment tool for hepatic steatosis. Properties of tissue microstructures correlate with the statistical distribution of ultrasound backscattered signals, which can be described by the Nakagami distribution (a wid...
The present study aims to compare the early stages of graphitization of the same DND source for two annealing atmospheres (primary vacuum, argon at atmospheric pressure) in an identical set-up. DND samples are finely characterized by a combination of...
Neutrons can be an instrument or an object in many fields of research. Major efforts all over the world are devoted to improving the intensity of neutron sources and the efficiency of neutron delivery for experimental installations. In this context,...
This paper presents the results of a study on the preparation and characterization of a Cr-DND/MoN detonation chromium-nanodiamond coating deposited on cemented tungsten carbide (WC–3 wt.% Co) mill blades using Arc-PVD and electrodeposition met...
Compositional proton-conducting membranes based on perfluorinated Aquivion®-type copolymers modified by detonation nanodiamonds (DND) with positively charged surfaces were prepared to improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cells. Small-angle ne...
The magnetic characteristics of a system of triply charged gadolinium ions Gd3+ chelated with carboxyls on the surface of detonation nanodiamond (DND) particles have been studied. Gd3+ ions demonstrate almost perfect spin (S = 7/2) paramagnetism with...
Designing fully green materials for flexible electronics is an urgent need due to the growing awareness of an environmental crisis. With the aim of developing a sustainable, printable, and biocompatible material to be exploited in flexible electronic...
Medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) is a common diagnosis. Several studies have demonstrated that excessive static navicular drop (ND) is related to the diagnosis. However, no studies have yet investigated ND and the velocity of ND during dynamic co...
This paper proposes an efficient load frequency control (LFC) technique based on a fractional-order proportional–integral–derivative–accelerator with a low-pass filter compensator (FOPIDA-LPF) controller, which can also be accuratel...
Solar lentigines, commonly caused by prolonged ultraviolet exposure, raise the risk of skin disorders and remain challenging to manage due to their complex mechanisms. Understanding the molecular mechanisms driving the progression of solar lentigines...
Pumps-as-Turbines (PATs) are increasingly used in micro-hydropower applications due to their cost competitiveness that is brought about by lower acquisition, design, operation, and maintenance costs. Despite these, limited research exists that invest...
The widespread application of detonation nanodiamonds (DNDs) is limited by surface-coated non-diamond sp2 carbon impurities. In this work, an efficient salt-assisted catalytic purification strategy is developed to achieve selective oxidation removal...
Detonation nanodiamonds (DNDs) were functionalized by ruthenium porphyrins and used as catalysts in the cyclopropanation reaction of olefins. The heterogeneous catalyst was characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron mi...
We study recombination processes in nitride LEDs emitting from 270 to 540 nm with EQE ranging from 4% to 70%. We found a significant correlation between the LEDs’ electro-optical properties and the degree of nanomaterial disorder (DND) in quant...
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